PIVOT Dashboard
PIVOT Dashboard
Legislating for Results
PIVOT stands for Program Inventories for Value, Outcomes, and Transparency. In 2019, Senate Bill 58 expanded the purview of the Accountability in Government Act (AGA) to include a provision that allows Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) and Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) staff to collaboratively collect data about evidence-based programs across executive agencies. PIVOT helps the legislature and the executive understand how agencies spend funds on evidence-based programs to better inform budget decisions.
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Each division's latest share of programmatic spending on evidence- or research-based programs, highest first, with the spending it is a share of and the change since its first year in PIVOT. Select a division for its programs, trends and review.
PIVOT is an evidence-based budget tool that helps agencies, the executive, and the legislature better understand their programmatic spending and outcomes, and informs budgeting decisions.
PIVOT is one part of New Mexico's Legislating for Results framework: a cycle that asks, for every program, how we are doing, what works, where to invest, whether it is implemented as intended, and what its impact is. The program inventory answers the question of “what works” so that agencies and the legislature can make more informed decisions about “where to invest.” PIVOT is separate from but relates to other evidence-based policymaking initiatives in New Mexico including the government results and opportunity (GRO) fund and the public education reform fund (PERF). The evaluation requirements attached to GRO and PERF funding help to answer whether programs are being implemented as intended and to gauge their impact.
DFA and LFC collaboratively select divisions that may benefit from the PIVOT process due to the nature and content of their work. Typically, human services (including health, education, and social welfare programs) tend to be more rigorously reviewed by high-quality evidence-based clearinghouses than other types of programs. For this reason, divisions such as public health at the Department of Health or prevention services at the Children, Youth and Families Department are more suitable for these types of inventories than programs that are more environmental or systems-based (for example, programs out of the Economic Development Department or the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department).
Each year, agencies selected to participate in PIVOT submit a spreadsheet that includes the following information about each program:
PIVOT began in 2019 with the enactment of Senate Bill 58. Over the ensuing years, DFA and LFC staff have gradually added programs and divisions to the inventory and increased the categories of data collected. The Methodology page shows which divisions reported in each year.
Agencies use the Results First Clearinghouse Database to cross-reference their programs against nationally validated, evidence-supported models. The submission form includes a section where agencies can note differences in their models and implementation from those documented in the national clearinghouse. LFC and DFA staff then review each agency's ratings, and where the evidence supports a different rating, the dashboard shows the reviewed rating.