The Partnership and Guidehouse held an event on Oct. 26, 2022, to release a new report, Building a Data Foundation: The Role of Data and Evidence in Advancing the President’s Management Agenda. Coming one year after the release of the PMA vision, the event featured a keynote from Cristin Dorgelo, senior advisor for management at the Office of Management and Budget, on making the PMA vision a reality.
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The Partnership and Deloitte hosted a working session to bring together stakeholders from across government to discuss challenges and best practices in institutionalizing enterprise risk management. The session yielded several valuable insights on how agency leaders preparing to distribute infrastructure dollars could use ERM.
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The Partnership hosted a West Coast virtual event highlighting lessons learned and keys to successful results regarding cross-sector collaboration. Code for America CEO Amanda Renteria and Joey Mercer, the principal investigator for NASA’s Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations, each explained how they worked with government entities and others to benefit the public.
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In 2021, the Federal Communications Commission launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a program that provided temporary discounts on internet services to qualifying low-income families in California. Last month, the Partnership hosted an event with three former federal leaders who worked to increase access to the program. The team shared lessons that other public sector leaders can use to improve access to services and develop better program outcomes.
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Recent public opinion research conducted by the Partnership for Public Service and Freedman Consulting found that a majority of people who said the federal government does not play much of a role in their lives also stated they have received federal benefits or assistance such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veteran’s benefits, food stamps or housing assistance. The data suggests that the lack of awareness of the source of these benefits has a real and significant effect on public support of government.
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Based on interviews with agency leaders across government who conducted their own data maturity assessments, a report from the Partnership and Boston Consulting Group offers best practices to help agencies that are working through the earlier stages of data maturity assessment planning.
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A recent national conducted found that only 40% of people in America trust the federal government to do what’s right. In this blog post, we explore whether the lack of trust in government by a majority of a country’s population is a unique situation for the United States or if similar issues can be found in other countries.
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