Annual Performance Agreement (APA)

Annual Performance Agreement (APA) Annual Performance Agreement (APA) is essentially a record of understanding between the Cabinet Secretary representing the Prime Minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Secretary of the concerned Ministry/Division representing the Minister. Government Performance Management System has been introduced with the purpose of promoting greater transparency and accountability in the Government organizations, proper utilization of resources and increasing institutional efficiency. In this agreement, strategic objectives of the concerned Ministry/Division, activities to attaint these strategic objectives and targets and indicators for measuring results of these activities have been expressed ex-ante. The actual achievements of the concerned Ministries/Divisions in the relevant year against the agreed targets will be evaluated at the end of the year.