Management Accountability Framework Assessments
Departmental Response to Round III (2005) Environment Canada Management Accountability Framework (MAF) Assessment
Environment Canada was pleased to review its Round III (2005) MAF Assessment and receive acknowledgement for the progress made to date in several key areas including audit and evaluation, human resources planning, strategic policy capacity and risk management. Considerable effort has been placed to improve our organizational structure and performance.
In Round III, TBS identified three key areas which require further improvement: Public Service Values, Quality of TB Submissions and Employment Equity. Environment Canada acknowledges the observations made and has taken steps to enhance its overall performance in these areas. Specifically, Environment Canada has established an office and work plan for Values & Ethics and has started to implement several activities including those to improve the monitoring of trends and employee views. In response to concerns surrounding the quality of Environment Canada's TB submissions, the department has made progress in creating new internal procedures for the development and timely delivery of submissions. Thirdly, the recruitment of visible minorities, both externally and for EX groups, continues to be a priority in our human resources plan.
The table below provides an overview of Environment Canada's Round III MAF Assessment along with Environment Canada's response.
The MAF assessment presents a comprehensive assessment of Environment Canada's overall organizational performance and Environment Canada is committed to using the MAF framework to identify priorities and implement action plans for management improvement throughout the organization.
Michael Horgan
Deputy Minister
MAF Round III Indicators | EC's Rating | Departmental Response | |
Public Service Values | |||
| Leadership | Opportunity for Improvement | Developed a three year action plan including program awareness activities, implementation of a values and ethics survey and monitoring/reporting system. | |
| Organizational Culture | Attention Required | ||
| Guidelines and Recourse | Acceptable | ||
Governance and Strategic Directions | |||
| Governance Legitimacy | Unrated | Environment Canada continues to develop its governance structure and performance information to meet requirements. | |
| Governance Structure | Opportunity for Improvement | ||
| Effective Planning Function | Opportunity for Improvement | ||
| Horizontal Initiatives | Unrated | ||
| Portfolio Management | Acceptable | ||
Policy and Programs | |||
| Policy Framework | Unrated | Environment Canada continues to increase its policy capacity and the linkages to operational requirements within the department and with other Federal Government Departments. | |
| Strategic Policy Capacity | Acceptable | ||
Results and Performance | |||
| Evaluation Function | Opportunity for Improvement | Environment Canada has increased its level of evaluation and maintained its current level of financial reporting. Environment Canada continues to enhance its performance information. | |
| Financial Reporting | Acceptable | ||
| Information and Decision-Making | Opportunity for Improvement | ||
| Performance Reporting | Opportunity for Improvement | ||
Learning, Innovation and Change Management | |||
| Innovation and Change Management | Unrated | Communication of Environment Canada's organizational change management plan to employees continues to be a priority and an ongoing effort. | |
| Organizational Learning | Unrated | ||
Risk Management | |||
| Legal Risk Management | Unrated | Environment Canada continues to develop its corporate risk management framework. | |
| Risk | Acceptable | ||
People | |||
| Workplace | Unrated | Environment Canada has maintained its effort towards achieving the targets set for each indicator including employment equity. | |
| Workforce | Unrated | ||
| Employment Equity | Opportunity for Improvement | ||
| HR Planning | Acceptable | ||
| Official Languages, language of work | Average | ||
| Performance Review | Acceptable | ||
| Readiness forPublic Service Modernization Act(PSMA) Implementation | Acceptable | ||
Stewardship | |||
| Capital Assets | Acceptable | Environment Canada increased its audit capacity and continues to enhance its financial management capacity. | |
| Financial Analysis | Acceptable | ||
| Information and IT Management | Acceptable | ||
| Internal Audit Function | Acceptable | ||
| Management of Transfer Payments | Acceptable | ||
| Materiel Management | Acceptable | ||
| Procurement and Contract Management | Acceptable | ||
| Project Management | Acceptable | ||
| Quality of Treasury Board (TB) submissions | Attention Required | ||
| Real Property | Acceptable | ||
| Treasury Board (TB)conditions | Acceptable | ||
Citizen-Focus Service | |||
| External Service delivery strategy | Opportunity for Improvement | Considerable efforts have been placed in developing service standards and in measuring client satisfaction. | |
| Government-wide Services | Acceptable | ||
| Official Languages for external Service Delivery | Average | ||
| Service delivery and User Fees | Opportunity for Improvement | ||
Accountability | |||
| Authorities and Delegations | Acceptable | Environment Canada's results-based governance structure provides appropriate accountability mechanisms. Mandatory training was provided to all Environment Canada managers. | |
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