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Denali Commission

The program's purpose is to provide critical utilities, infrastructure and economic support to distressed rural communities in Alaska. This effort includes the program's own competitive grant process and partnerships with tribal, Federal, state and local governments involved in investment to areas of high distress.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program serves a clear purpose as 27 percent of rural Alaskan households are below the poverty line and many communities lack basic water and energy infrastructure. However, the program's activities are duplicative of other federal programs that address the same needs and provide the same types of assistance.
  • The program has improved performance measures and has focused limited resources to address critical energy and health care infrastructure needs. While the Commission has established long-term outcome measures, the extent to which its investments are having an impact on economic development in rural Alaskan communities is unclear. The program lacks adequate evaluations that assess program impact.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Focusing its role as a regional planner and investment coordinator to increase efficient investment in areas of high distress.
  • Developing and implementing a performance evaluation of community and economic development programs.
  • Sharing performance data and research results among Federal agencies to better understand the link between Federal investments and overall community-level change.

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