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Results-Based Management at UNFPA

1 January, 2008 – 12:01 am

There is a broad trend among public sector institutions towards Results-Based Management–RBM. Development agencies, bilateral such as Canada, the Netherlands, UK, and the US as well as multilateral such as UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank, are adopting RBM with the aim to improve programme and management effectiveness and accountability and achieve results.

RBM is fundamental to the Fund’s approach and practice in fulfilling its mandate and effectively providing assistance to developing countries. At UNFPA, RBM means:

Establishing clear organizational vision, mission and priorities, which are translated into a four-year framework of goals, outputs, indicators, strategies and resources (MYFF);
Encouraging an organizational and management culture that promotes innovation, learning, accountability, and transparency;
Delegating authority and empowering managers and holding them accountable for results;
Focusing on achieving results, through strategic planning, regular monitoring of progress, evaluation of performance, and reporting on performance;
Creating supportive mechanisms, policies and procedures, building and improving on what is in place, including the operationalization of the logframe;
Sharing information and knowledge, learning lessons, and feeding these back into improving decision-making and performance;
Optimizing human resources and building capacity among UNFPA staff and national partners to manage for results;
Making the best use of scarce financial resources in an efficient manner to achieve results;
Strengthening and diversifying partnerships at all levels towards achieving results;
Responding to the realities of country situations and needs, within the organizational mandate.

The following RBM-related documents will assist in the common understanding of RBM at UNFPA and we hope that you will be familiar with them so that together, we will move towards RBM in the Fund.