What is GAP Performance Management?
The GAP program aims to build the capacity of Tribal governments to implement EPA programs and promote Tribal self-governance. The 2022 GAP Guidance introduces a new performance management strategy which will improve the accountability, efficiency, effectiveness, and decision-making of AIEO to achieve the GAP national priorities. Below are tools that AIEO will use to meet its reporting and evaluation responsibilities. On this page:
- EPA-Tribal Environmental Plan (ETEP) Fact Sheet
- GAP Capacity Indicators
- GAP Hub Fact Sheet
- GAP Success Stories
EPA-Tribal Environmental Plan (ETEP) Fact Sheet
ETEPs are jointly developed documents that provide an understanding of how EPA and Tribes plan to work together to address shared environmental priorities. ETEPs also provide a linkage between GAP funded activities and performance management.
EPA-Tribal Environmental Plan (ETEP) Fact Sheet (pdf)
GAP Capacity Indicators
GAP capacity indicators are milestones along a Tribe’s environmental program development path. Capacity indicators do not represent all GAP eligible activities and are not meant to capture every program development milestone. EPA will use capacity indicators as a measurement to demonstrate environmental capacity achieved with GAP funding. For more information on indicators, please see Section 2.2 of the GAP Guidance.
GAP Hub Fact Sheet
GAP Hub is a new, internal performance management application for GAP that will use existing data from work plans, progress reports, and EPA-Tribal Environmental Plans to help AIEO evaluate how well GAP is fulling its statutory purpose.
This GAP Hub fact sheet provides information on what the GAP Hub is, its purpose, and other background information.
GAP Success Stories
Using the information collected through ETEPs and the GAP Hub, AIEO will identify GAP Success Stories to highlight interesting and effective ways GAP grants are supporting Tribes and intertribal consortia develop their environmental programs. These stories are shared via StoryMaps, a storytelling tool on a GIS platform.