NCJ Number
235039
Date Published
May 2011
Length
27 pages
Annotation
The U.S. Government Accountability Office summarizes the Office of National Drug Control Strategy's (ONDCP's) fiscal 2010 annual report on its audit of its programs and operations.
Abstract
The report focuses on the ONDCP's process for developing and monitoring the Drug Control Budget and the views of selected drug control agencies on the benefits and challenges of developing and implementing the Drug Control Budget. The report reviews ONDCP's process for developing programs and policies that support the National Drug Control Strategy; and it presents a comprehensive view of ONDCP's role in the budget process. The ONDCP requires that agencies involved in the National Drug Control Program submit to ONDCP, not later than February 1 of each year, a detailed accounting of all funds expended by the agencies for drug control activities during the previous fiscal year. This accounting is to be authenticated by the Inspector General of each agency through an attestation report. ONDCP is required to issue funding guidance to agencies by July 1 of each year, in order to identify specific programs and priorities each agency is expected to fund in support of the National Drug Control Strategy. Officials at the 6 agencies involved identified 14 challenges they encountered while preparing their Drug Control Budget submissions or authenticating drug control expenditures and their associated activities; however, none of the challenges were pervasive across all six agencies. Officials of most of the six agencies contacted reported that ONDCP's process for developing the Drug Control Budget is "somewhat effective" or "very effective" in identifying Drug Control Budget priorities; ensuring sufficiency of resources in implementing the "Strategy;" and providing a record of national drug expenditures. 1 table