Performance Management

In 2003, DFID was rated as the top performing UK Government department by a survey judged by a panel of former Ministers, Lords, MPs, senior civil servants, broadsheet columnists etc. Maintaining this level of high performance is important to our effort in tackling poverty. Measuring performance against your goals is important to check that the work being done is effective, and where improvements need to be made.

Having signed up to the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals, DFID has clear targets to work towards. To evaluate our performance against these goals and to understand how we can improve, DFID is scrutinised internally and externally. This is explained in the links below:

• DFID Stakeholder Survey 2008(370 kb)
  DFID's first ever stakeholder survey has resulted in broadly positive feedback, delivering the message that DFID's staff and their expertise are the department’s biggest assets.
• The Public Service Agreement
  What are our objectives and how do we intend to achieve them?
• Annual Report
  Reporting our progress towards the Public Service Agreement targets.
• Resource Accounts
  Primary financial statements recording the full costs of activities, DFID’s assets and liabilities as well as providing information on how resources have been used to meet objectives.
• Sustainable Development Action Plan
  An action plan showing how DFID will play its part in delivering the UK Government's vision of sustainable development.
• Autumn Performance Report(747 kb)
  The Autumn Performance Report (APR) is produced annually, and is laid in parliament and made available publicly. It details DFID's progress in relation to our Public Service Agreement (PSA) and the Efficiency Programme.
• Country Assistance Plans
  Plans to achieve these targets that are specific to countries receiving DFID bilateral aid.
• Risk Management
  DFID's anti-fraud and corruption policy.
• Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate
  Key sustainable development impacts arising from the management of their Estates, employment of staff and external relations with communities in which they operate.
• DFID's Race Relations Scheme
  Sets out how DFID will meet its obligations under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
• DFID Asset Management Strategy(41 kb)
  This Asset Management Strategy describes:

  • how we use capital now;
  • our plans for investment and other spending within the capital budgets agreed in the Comprehensive Spending Review and
  • how we manage our assets

• DFID Sickness Absence Statistics
  The Cabinet Office annual report analysing sickness absence for the financial year 2006-07.
• DFID Expenditure Statistics 2007/08

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