Research Brief
The Federal Voting Assistance Program
Dec 16, 2015
This report documents the Federal Voting Assistance Program's efforts to align its strategy and operations to better serve its mission and stakeholders, and strengthen its capacity to set its own course, greet change, and communicate its role in the voting community. The report shows the potential for substantial, timely change in a highly collaborative working relationship, rooted in a systematic and analytically grounded research design.
Achieving Institutional Change Through Analysis and Collaboration
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In early 2013, the leadership of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) commissioned the RAND National Defense Research Institute to undertake a collaborative, multiyear work program known as "FVAP and the Road Ahead." The project was established to assist FVAP in aligning its strategy and operations to better serve its mission and stakeholders, and to strengthen FVAP's capacity to set its own course, greet change, and communicate its role in the voting community. The RAND project team worked with FVAP to compare, reconcile, and align what was in the agency's strategy and typical of its operations and what should be, through an evidence-based approach that included logic modeling, stakeholder outreach, and a requirements assessment. This report documents the project and resulting changes within FVAP, which enabled a significant realignment of the agency's strategy and operations. The report concludes with final recommendations and guidance largely proposed to lock in and build on gains.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Logic-Model Development
Chapter Three
Stakeholder Outreach
Chapter Four
Federal Voting Assistance Program Activities in Relation to Requirements
Chapter Five
Preliminary Recommendations and Initial Guidance
Chapter Six
The Federal Voting Assistance Program's Engagement with Its Operating Environment
Chapter Seven
Evidence of Change
Chapter Eight
Final Recommendations, Guidance, and Remarks
Appendix A
Logic-Modeling Workshop and Materials
Appendix B
Statutory Requirements Pertaining to the Federal Voting Assistance Program
Appendix C
Survey Response Rates and Regularly Scheduled Reports to Congress
Appendix D
Project-Management Tools
Appendix E
Training Options and Recommendations
Appendix F
Adult Learning Principles and Training Evaluation
This research was sponsored by the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) and conducted within the Forces and Resources Policy Center and the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community.
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