Archive for January, 2008

Results Based Management Explained (by the ADB)

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

ADB website Results Based Management (RBM) can mean different things to different people. A simple explanation is that RBM is the way an organization is motivated and applies processes and resources to achieve targeted results. Results refer to outcomes that convey benefits to the community (e.g. Education for All (EFA), ...

Making government budgets more accessible and equitable

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

(from ID21) Involvement in the budget process in poor countries has traditionally been limited to a select group of political actors. But this has changed over the last decade with legislators, civil society groups and the media playing a more active role. What impact is broader engagement having? Research from the Institute ...

Results-Based Management at UNFPA

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

UNFPA website: There is a broad trend among public sector institutions towards Results-Based ...

Results Based Management (RBM): A list of resources

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

CIDA website: Results-based Management Results-based Management (RBM) is a comprehensive, life-cycle approach to management that integrates business strategy, people, processes, and measurements to improve decision-making and to drive change. The approach focuses on getting the right design early in a process, implementing performance measurement, learning and changing, and reporting on performance. RBM ...

Training providers

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

A list is available on the old site, at http://www.mande.co.uk/training.htm That list will be moved here, in the near future

Transparency: A list of useful documents

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Topic headings Aid organisations and transparency Budgets and transparency Technology and transparency Elections and transparency Governance and transparency Organisations focusing on transparency Aid organisations and transparency ActionAid's Open Information Policy: "Our Open Information Policy describes exactly how and what minimum information ActionAid International will share proactively with the general public, and informs exactly what information you can demand ...

Invitation to comment and recommend…

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This section will try to outline, and update 1. The development agenda for this website Develop topic lists such as The Logical Framework: A list of useful documents Transparency: A list of useful documents and... This post is also intended as... 2. An opportunity for anyone to comment about the website Please use the Comment box below to ...

The road to nowhere? Results based management in international cooperation

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

howard white provides a critique of this approach Results-based management has become a fact of life for development agencies. They might hope to learn from the experience of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) which has already gone down this road. It is indeed instructive that USAID has come back ...

M&E blogs: A List

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

AID/IT M&E Blog "...is written by Paul Crawford, and is part of a wider AID/IT website" Blog: EvaluatecaSpanish language evaluation blog maintained by Rafael Monterde Diaz. Information, news, views and critical comments on Evaluation Empowerment Evaluation Blog "...This is a place for exchanges and discussions about empowement evaluation practice, theory, and ...