National Drug Control Strategy, 2001 Annual Report. Performance Measures of Effectiveness

摘要

The Performance Measures of Effectiveness (PME) System was designed in 1997 to inform the drug control community about the extent to which it achieves the National Drug Control Strategys (Strategys) five Goals and 31 Objectives (Figure 1) and to assist in the clarification of problem areas and the development of corrective actions. This flexible, dynamic system will be refined this year, a maturation process of re-assessing targets and measures, reflecting enhanced interagency appreciation and awareness of joint accountability issues. The system may also require modifications to reflect the goals, objectives, and initiatives of the new, upcoming Strategy. The PME System was developed through a collaborative process involving over 50 drug control agencies, drug control experts, and representatives of major state and local organizations. Widely acclaimed as a systematic effort to address joint accountability across Federal and non-Federal agencies, it was endorsed by Congress in The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Reauthorization Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-277) as the vehicle by which to assess strategic progress. This is the second report that assesses our progress as a national community toward meeting the ambitious stretch targets that we set for ourselves. Actual results are compared against the glide path developed to gauge movement toward the five-year (2002) and ten-year (2007) targets. By tracking progress, the community gets an early warning when improvement is insufficient. If targets are not met over a period of time, this will trigger in-depth program evaluations to identify problem areas and develop appropriate responses. The PME System assesses the success of the national drug control community, not of any particular agency, although agency programs will be critically examined as part of the evaluation process. The PME Report documents progress over a period of time, a trend line supplementing data on annual progress. This PME report concentrates on progress made in 1999, the second year of the ten-year Strategy.