Discuss on Establishing Control Systems

9-1 Subsistence Best Practices

Shannon Fagan posted Aug 4, 2022 8:41 PM

In this activity, evaluate the policy that you analyzed for your final project using the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) best practices and leading practices in collaboration. Provide a high-level overview of how you think the policy that you analyzed is performing or did perform on these measures and recommendations for how efforts could be improved.

Best Practices and Leading Practices in Collaboration

· Define and articulate a common outcome.

· Establish mutually reinforcing or joint strategies.

· Identify and address needs by leveraging resources.

· Agree on roles and responsibilities.

· Establish compatible policies, procedures, and other means to operate across agency boundaries.

· Develop mechanisms to monitor, evaluate, and report on results.

· Reinforce agency accountability for collaborative efforts through agency plans and reports.

· Reinforce individual accountability for collaborative efforts through performance management systems.

The policy I will be evaluated against the GAO’s best practices is regarding a local polling place policy. More specifically, the local policy says, “The Registrars of Voters of the Town of Putnam, in accordance with the provisions of said statutes, shall provide a suitable polling place in each district” (Town of Putnam,1969, p 2). This policy talks about how the district is split up in two and how a polling place must be in each district. Currently, my town only has one polling place, which is against their policy.

Regarding outcomes and accountability it is limited for this policy. A measure of the outcomes would be the percentage of voter turnout among registered voters. You then could compare this to previous years before the polling places were not separate.