Project Outcomes Assessment Survey

The information collected by the Project Outcome Assessment Survey (POAS) is needed for two main reasons: 1) to collect crucial information required to report on the Administration for Native Americans' (ANA) established Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) measures, and 2) to properly abide by ANA's congressionally-mandated statute (42 United States Code 2992 et seq.) found under the section titled ‘Evaluation’ in the Native American Programs Act of 1974, as amended, which states that ANA will evaluate projects assisted through ANA grant dollars “including evaluations that describe and measure the impact of such projects, their effectiveness in achieving stated goals, their impact on related programs, and their structure and mechanisms for delivery of services.” The information collected with this survey will fulfill ANA's statutory requirement. Revisions are required as ANA removed several questions it deems superfluous and not reviewed by analysts. This allows for more in depth qualitative questions to be added, as well as clarifying some remaining questions which were ambiguous. The Native American Programs Act of 1974 states under the section titled Evaluation that, “the projects assisted under this title shall be evaluated in accordance with this section not less frequently than at 3-year intervals.” ANA assesses at least one-third of its grant portfolio each year to meet the assigned mandate. This mandate eliminates the need to use sampling methods as all ANA projects will be evaluated over a three-year period.

The latest form for Project Outcomes Assessment Survey expires 2022-06-30 and can be found here.