6 EXAMINATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE
AGREEMENTS
58. DFID's Departmental Report is structured around
its Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets, many of which are
based on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The purpose
of the PSAs is to hold DFID accountable to its stakeholders and
to provide a mechanism for monitoring its performance.
59. In their Report on the 2003 DFID Departmental
Report, our predecessors recommended that the Department aim to
include more information within future annual reports about the
steps it is taking towards achieving its objectives and in particular
the steps it takes to remedy under-performance against its PSAs.
The Government Response went some way towards agreeing to supply
this information.[35]
However, we remained dissatisfied with the clarity of the information
in the Departmental Report 2006 on achieving PSA targets.
We therefore recommended that future Departmental Reports give
specific examples of how DFID seeks to achieve PSA targets and
that it provides evidence of corrective or remedial action it
is taking in instances where PSA targets are not going to be met.
We were pleased to note that DFID's 2006 Autumn Performance
Report, published in December, includes information on steps
being taken to tackle under-performance against the PSAs.[36]
35 International Development Committee, First Special
Report of Session 2003-04, Government Response to the Committee's
Eighth Report of Session 2002-03: DFID Departmental Report 2003,
Conclusion 21 Back
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DFID 2006 Autumn Performance Report: DFID PSA and Efficiency
Programme, Cm 6978 Back
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