What Does GPRA Involve?
Why GPRA is Important to Nonprofits GPRA Issues GPRA Performance Measurement Lingo WHAT IS GPRA? The Government Performance and Results Act, passed in 1993, was initiated by GOP legislators, but received broad bipartisan support including that of the Clinton Administration. GPRA addressed a broad range of concerns about government accountability and performance. Its goals were to improve the confidence of Americans in federal government, focus on the actual results of government activity and services, support congressional oversight and decision-making, and improve the managerial and internal workings of agencies within the federal government. While GPRA has followed on the heels of a number of efforts throughout the past fifty years to improve the workings of the federal government, GPRA is unique in its requirement that agency “results” be integrated into the budgetary decision-making process. GPRA can also be distinguished from prior reform attempts because it is taking place in a c
