Workshop: “Lessons learned from Integrated Natural
Resource Management in the Middle East and North
Africa region”
25th to the 28th of March, 2013
Hammamet, Tunisia – Iberostar Saphir Palace Hotel
Roberto Telleria,
Agricultural Policy Specialist
([email protected])
Socioeconomic and Policy Research
Program (SEPRP) - ICARDA
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
Results-based Management
• What is RBM? Why RBM?
• The Log Frame
• Indicators
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Results-based Management (RMB)
A results-based approach aims to improve
management
effectiveness
and
accountability by “defining realistic
expected results, monitoring progress
toward the achievement of expected
results, integrating lessons learned into
management decisions and reporting on
performance.”
Canadian
International
Development
Agency (CIDA), 1999
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Results-based Management, a definition
In short: A management approach
aimed at ensuring that activities achieve
desired results.
Performance monitoring is a critical
element
• How well are results being achieved
• What measures are needed to
improve the process
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Results-based Management
Results-based Management
Responsibility of project
Utilisation of project results
Impact
End users
WITHIN THE RESEARCH
PROJECT
OUTCOMES
OUTPUTS
M&E Focus
Area
IMPACTS
Next users
External influences
ACTIVITES
Source: Australian Center for International Agricultural Research
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M&E and the Impact Pathway
National Goal: Enabling environment for sustaining agricultural
development and food security
Outcome 1:
Outputs:
Enhanced production and
1. GoI supported in rehabilitation
productivity in the agricultural
and operationalization of
sector
irrigation infrastructure
2. Iraqi stakeholders have
enhanced capacity to access
and apply agricultural
technology
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Logframe
“A quantitative or qualitative factor or
variable that provides a simple and reliable
means to measure achievement, to reflect
changes connected to an intervention, or to
help assess the performance of a
development actor”
Source: OECD /DAC 2002
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Indicators
Stated rationale/intended gains:
• Improved focus / clarity on results
instead of activities;
• Improved
transparency
&
accountability;
• Improved monitoring of program
achievements.
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Why Results-based Management?
• Inputs: The financial, human, material,
technological and information resources
used for the development intervention.
• Activities: Actions taken or work
performed through which inputs, such as
funds, technical assistance and other types
of resources are mobilized to produce
specific outputs.
• Outputs: The products and services which
result from the completion of activities
within a development intervention.
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Stages in Results-Based Management
• Impact: Positive and negative short and
long term effects on identifiable
population
groups
produced
by
development intervention. The intended or
achieved effects of an intervention’s
outputs, usually requiring the collective
effort of partners.
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Why Results-based Management?
Results-based Management
Global
impact
SubImpact B
SubImpact C
Activity i
Output 2
Activity i
Activity ii
Output 3
Activity i
Activity ii
Output 1
Output 2
Inputs
Activity ii
Inputs
Activity i
Output 1
Activity i
Activity ii
Inputs
Output 2
Activity i
Activity ii
Inputs
Output 3
Source: UNDG
Activity i
Activity ii
Activity i
Activity ii
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SubImpact A
Output 1
Typology for RBM: Poverty Reduction
Food security
improved
Impact
Poverty reduced
Outcome 2
Employment and
income generation
increased
Outcome 1
3000 new small
enterprises developed
in poorest provinces
Activity
Input
Source: UNDG
Model business
activities in poorest
provinces
- Acquire facilities
- Staff training
- Micro-credit provision..
Macro
objective
Long
term
Human!
5-10
yrs
Institutional/
Behavioural
Institutional/
Behavioural
5
yrs
5
yrs
more
less
Collective
Accountability
Level
of
Operational/
skills, abilities,
products &
services
<5
yrs control
<1
yr
more
less
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Global
impact
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Thank you
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