Presented by Greg Kowalski, Shamiah Kerney, and Ranjana Ramchandran, Ernst & Young LLP

The recent surge in government-wide grants spending enables agencies to develop a portfolio of programs funded from different federal, state, and local sources. This provides a unique opportunity for entities to implement outcome-based management of programs to enhance optimization of funds, effective program design, and collective achievement of policy objectives.

Using examples from local government, we will explore strategies for:

• Defining desired program outcomes aligned with entity policy objectives and strategic goals

• Developing standardized performance measures across the portfolio to track adherence to desired program outcomes, supported by formal governance structure  

• Implementing risk-based monitoring framework to identify non-performing programs and minimize fraud, waste, and abuse

• Reallocating funds and/or modifying program design to better achieve desired outcomes