ROMA: Results Oriented Management and Accountability
The Monitoring and Assessment Task Force (MATF), a task force of federal, state, and local CSBG Network officials, created ROMA in 1994. Based upon principles contained in the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, ROMA provides a framework for continuous growth and improvement among local CAAs and a basis for state leadership and assistance.
In 1998, the CSBG Reauthorization Act, Section 678E(a)(1), 42 U.S.C. § 9917(a)(1), made ROMA implementation (or another performance measurement system) a requirement for receiving federal CSBG funds, and established October 1, 2001, as the start date for reporting CSBG Network outcomes in the context of performance-based management principles. This statutory mandate changed both the nature and pace of performance measurement system implementation throughout the CSBG Network.
IM 152 outlines the new CSBG Annual Report and the role of ROMA Next Generation in the new Performance Management Framework. The IM places an enhanced emphasis on analysis and evaluation under ROMA Next Generation. This evaluation and analysis is actualized through the new CSBG Annual Report that will replace the CSBG IS beginning in FFY 2018.
Local CAAs are encouraged to undertake a number of ROMA implementation actions that focus on results oriented management and accountability.
Results Oriented Management Principles
• Assess poverty needs and conditions within the community.
• Define a clear anti-poverty mission for the CSBG Network and the strategies and services to address those needs, both immediate and longer term, in the context of existing resources and opportunities in the community.
• Identify specific improvements, or results, to be achieved among people with low-incomes and communities in which they live.
• Organize and implement programs, services, and strategies within the agency and among partnering organizations, to achieve anticipated results.
Results Oriented Accountability Principles
• Develop and implement processes to identify, measure, and record improvements in the condition of people with low-incomes and the communities in which they live that result from CSBG Network intervention.
• Use information about outcomes, or results, among agency tripartite boards and staff to determine overall effectiveness; inform annual and long-range planning; and promote new funding and community partnership activities.
• Encourage state CSBG offices and state CAA associations to work in coordination to advance ROMA performance-based concepts among CSBG Eligible Entities through ongoing training and technical assistance.
Videos
- ROMA: An Introduction for Boards (Created by Community Action Association of Pennsylvania)
ROMA in the State Office
Background Documents
