What recommendations and conclusions can you make on the issue of human rights violations to government?
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4.1. General Conclusions
The panel offers the following 10 conclusions:
Conclusion 1: All five agencies have made a good-faith effort to develop reporting procedures that comply with the requirements of GPRA. Some agencies stated that GPRA compliance has added substantially to the cost of their planning and evaluation activities in the form of staff time and resources. Others report that they have been able to integrate GPRA with their traditional budget and planning processes although at some cost of time and effort.
Conclusion 2: Some agencies are using the GPRA process to improve their operations. These agencies report benefits in strengthening program management and enhancing communication about their programs to the users of research and the general public. The need to do so depends on the goal of that agency and the degree to which there is concern about a given field of research or about new and emerging programs.
In promoting greater accountability, the act calls for firmer alignment of research programs with overall strategic planning and for a higher degree of accountability. These agencies report progress on both counts—in strengthening the management of their programs and in enhancing their ability to communicate the value of their programs to the users of research and the public.
However, while some agencies report that they have been able to derive their GPRA requirements from the same management processes that they traditionally use for internal control and budgeting, others see GPRA requirements as extra burdens that add to the planning and reporting workload, with lost opportunities in terms of costs of staff time and resources devoted to this requirement.
Conclusion 4: Oversight bodies and some agencies need clearer procedures to validate and verify agency evaluations. In particular, oversight bodies expressed a desire for better understanding of the methodology and results of expert review evaluations.
Conclusion 5: Agencies choose to aggregate their research programs at different levels. Some agencies provide evaluations on a field-specific or program-specific basis; others do so for the research program in its entirety. Aggregating at a high level can make it difficult for oversight bodies to clearly see and understand the methods and programs that are the focus of the analyses.
Conclusion 6: The development of human resources as an agency objective sometimes does not receive explicit emphasis or visibility in GPRA plans and reports. When this objective is explicit, it not only affirms the value of the US tradition that includes graduate students in the research programs of their advisers—but also shows how reductions in research funding can jeopardize the preparation of the scientists and engineers the nation will need in the future.
Conclusion 7: Agencies often receive conflicting messages from oversight bodies about the desired format, content, and procedures to be used in GPRA compliance. For example, one agency made an effort to tie its GPRA reports more closely to its annual budget, as required in the act, only to be told by a congressional committee to return to a previously used format—another was told the reverse.
Conclusion 9: Communication between agencies and oversight groups is not sufficiently regular, extensive, or collaborative. During focus groups, the workshop, and interviews, it was consistently clear that improved communication between these two sectors could reduce the difficulties and misunderstandings experienced by some agencies.
4.2. General Recommendations
On the basis of these observations, the panel offers the following general recommendations:
Recommendation 1: Federally supported programs of basic and applied research should be evaluated regularly through expert review, using the performance indicators of quality, relevance, and, where appropriate, leadership.
Recommendation 2: Agencies should continue to improve their methods of GPRA compliance and to work toward the goals of greater transparency, more-realistic reporting schedules, clear validation and verification of methods, and the explicit use of the development of human resources as an indicator in performance plans and reports.
Recommendation 3: Agencies and oversight bodies should work together as needed to facilitate agencies integrating their GPRA requirements with their internal planning, budgeting, and reporting processes. In addition, they should work together to adjust the timing of GPRA reporting to capitalize on the value of the planning process.
Human rights are the fundamentals right which is enjoyed by human for being a citizen of the earth. No one can devoid the human of its fundamental right. Human right violation is one of the extreme cases of dangerous behaviour which should be controlled by the government. It includes various factors such as the right of not having a property the right not to vote and various other factors.
Human right violation is also seen all over the world like racism is also experienced in parts like Africa where people have darker skin colour. This should be stopped by the International Court of Justice and by the human right Commission.