Dashboard of Recommendations to Address Agency Ethics Program Deficiencies

Each executive branch agency is required to carry out an effective ethics program that meets requirements established by statutes and regulations. Generally, OGE reviews each agency’s program at least once every three or four years to determine whether it’s in compliance with these requirements.

Open Recommendations 

When OGE identifies a deficiency in an agency’s ethics program, i.e., the agency is not meeting a requirement, a “recommendation” is issued in OGE’s report. Recommendations remain open until OGE determines the agency has resolved the deficiency. The Recommendations dashboard provides information about deficiencies that have been identified by OGE during the program review process. but remain unresolved by the agency reviewed.

Use the drop down to view information by fiscal year and quarter. The information is updated every Friday.



Table 01.

Shows the number of open recommendations at the end of each quarter.

Recommendations by Category

OGE monitors agency progress to ensure compliance with established statutes, regulations and binding authorities. OGE also tracks trends to determine if additional agency assistance may be required to assist a particular program or to provide outreach to the ethics community at large.

Use the drop down to view information by fiscal year or quarter. The information is updated every Friday.

Table 02.

Shows the prevalence of recommendations by category.


*“Program Administration” recommendations address deficiencies in an agency’s processes and procedures for administering its ethics program.