What is the connection between the PART and GPRA?
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) is a law that guides how agencies prepare strategic plans, performance plans, and performance reports that set goals and report on achieving them. The PART is a method for assessing program performance and how the program achieves goals. The PART reinforces the ambitious outcome-oriented performance measurement framework developed under GPRA. Also, the PART builds on GPRA by encouraging agencies to integrate operational decisions with strategic and performance planning. The PART can play an important role in improving performance measurement when existing measures are not outcome-oriented or sufficiently ambitious. Performance measures in GPRA plans and reports and those developed or revised through the PART process must be consistent. (See PART Guidance p.
