Planning and Performance

Planning, performance, and accountability are closely related to the formulation and implementation of funding requests and are carried out by means of:

-- The U.S. International Affairs Strategic Plan establishes a comprehensive framework for U.S. foreign policy goals.
-- The Department of State and USAID Strategic Plan supports the policy positions set forth in the National Security Strategy and presents how the Department and USAID will implement U.S. foreign policy and development assistance.
-- The Department of State Performance Plan specifies the performance outcomes that the Department aims to accomplish, along with how the Department will do it and how the Department will document the results.
-- The Department of State's Performance and Accountability Report provides performance and financial information that enables Congress, the President, and the public the ability to assess the performance of the Department relative to its mission and for stewardship of the resources entrusted to it.
-- The Remediation Plan fulfills the State Department's statutory reporting requirement under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996. FFMIA requires an agency to submit a Remediation Plan when the agency's financial systems are not in substantial compliance with Federal accounting standards, the U.S. Government Standard General Ledger at the transaction level, or Federal financial management systems requirements.