Program directory · Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Management Accountability Framework
- Department
- Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- Program code
- BXB04 (TBC)
- Core responsibility
- Administrative Leadership
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Management Accountability Framework (MAF) is an annual performance measurement tool focused on management practices across federal departments and agencies. Since its inception in 2003, MAF is used to set management expectations, measure performance across key areas of management, hold deputy heads accountable for organizational management, and support continuous improvement of management practices within departments. The assessments under MAF are ultimately intended to ensure that departments are undertaking the management practices to fulfil its organizational priorities and departmental mandates.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2017-18. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Accountability Framework | This program | 2017-18 – 2024-25 | $11.6M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Indicators added: Government of Canada’s ranking in enabling functions effectiveness | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2019-20 | Indicators dropped: Canada’s ranking in The World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicator of Government Effectiveness; Level of compliance by departments with key policy requirements, expressed as a percentage | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators added: Canada's ranking on Government Effectiveness / International Civil Service Effectiveness Index (InCiSE) | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Government of Canada’s ranking in enabling functions effectiveness | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Renamed from “Management Accountability Framework and Policy Suite Integrity” to “Management Accountability Framework”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Top three | 2020 | Ranked 2 | Met |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | Top 10 among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries | 2019 | Top 8 among OECD member countries. | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 80% | 2019 | 72% There has been improvement in performance (of 6 percentage points) from the 2017-18 period. TBS will work with departments to accurately identify policy compliance challenges and support addressing them. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | — | $2.4M |
| 2018-19 | $2.3M | $2.6M |
| 2019-20 | $2.2M | $2.4M |
| 2020-21 | $2.7M | $1.1M |
| 2021-22 | $1.4M | $1.4M |
| 2022-23 | $1.4M | $1.7M |
| 2023-24 | $1.4M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $1.4M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | 19 | 17 |
| 2018-19 | 16 | 23 |
| 2019-20 | 17 | 20 |
| 2020-21 | 21 | 8 |
| 2021-22 | 9 | 11 |
| 2022-23 | 9 | 12 |
| 2023-24 | 9* | — |
| 2024-25 | 9* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $2,267,391 | $2,251,014 | $2,251,014 | ||||
| 2019-20 plan | $2,225,051 | $2,225,032 | $2,228,055 | ||||
| 2020-21 plan | $2,686,298 | $2,703,622 | $2,707,485 | ||||
| 2021-22 plan | $1,350,535 | $1,354,615 | $1,354,615 | ||||
| 2022-23 plan | $1,366,810 | $1,366,810 | $1,366,810 | ||||
| Actual | $2,630,861 | $2,413,075 | $1,059,158 | $1,438,203 | $1,666,944 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
