Studies and Tools

• Criteria for the Assessment of the Fairness and Reliability of Performance Information—September 2008 
• Examining Public Spending—Estimates Review: A Guide for Parliamentarians (PDF 694 KB)—March 2007
• Environmental and natural resource issues: Summary of performance audit activity in Canada for the period 2000-2005 (PDF 141 KB)—June 2006
• Managing for Results Self-Assessment Tool—March 2003
• Public Service Management Reform: Progress, Setbacks and Challenges—February 2001 (PDF 442 KB)
• Framework for Identifying Risk in Grant and Contribution Programs—February 2001 (PDF 95 KB)
• Implementing Results-Based Management: Lessons from the Literature—March 2000
• Capabilities Assessment Instrument—A Tool for Assessing the Capabilities of a New Governance Arrangement (The Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development Fund)—March 1999 (PDF 56 KB)
• Financial Management Capability Model—April 1999
• Moving up the Learning Curve: The Second Generation of Sustainable Development Strategies (off CESD site)—December 1999
• Systems Under Development Best Practices Symposium—Proceedings—April 1998
• Examination of the Requirement to Report Specified Foreign Property Under Section 233.3 of the Income Tax Act—June 1998