Welcome to CCAF’s Improved Public Performance Reporting Project website. The information on this site is designed to help improve the use and usability of public performance reports (PPRs) in Canada. Here you will find:

• A history of public performance reporting in Canada
• Current challenges of using public performance reports
• A description of public performance reporting
• CCAF’s contribution to improving public performance reporting
• Information on CCAF’s Improving Public Performance Reporting Project
• Supporting documentation on public performance reporting from Canada and internationally.

CCAF is Canada’s leader in research on public sector accountability. We are a non-profit foundation whose mission is to provide exemplary thought leadership and to build both knowledge and capacity for effective governance and meaningful accountability, management and audit.

It has been more than a decade since public performance reporting was introduced in Canada. In that time, we have seen tremendous growth in the usage of performance reports here. Based upon input that CCAF has received from producers and users of PPRs, we have begun an examination of what has been accomplished and what challenges we still face. We are striving to bridge the disconnect between theory and practice, producer and supplier.

To improve public performance reporting in Canada, CCAF is:

1. Reaching out through professional associations to strengthen performance reporting standards and convey the perspectives of users.
2. Raising awareness about the potential uses of performance reporting among members of the media, the public, legislators and non-governmental organizations.
3. Working with users to seek ideas for improving existing formats of PPRs.
4. Working with pilot jurisdictions at the federal, provincial and municipal level to improve readability and usability of performance reports.
5. Providing expertise, conducting best practices research and delivering user feedback to governments to help them improve the usability of their reports.

We welcome your views on public performance reporting or your comments on our website: please contact info@ccaf-fcvi.com.