Result Based Monitoring
Result Based Monitoring
Introduction
Results-based management is a management strategy by which all actors on the
ground, contributing directly or indirectly to achieving a set of development
results, ensure that their processes, products and services contribute to the
achievement of desired results, outputs, outcomes and goals). Result based
management rests on clearly defined accountability for results and requires
monitoring and self-assessment of progress towards results, including reporting on
performance.
Once it is agreed to pursue a set of results through a program, implementation
starts and monitoring becomes an essential task to ensure results are being
achieved. Finally, Monitoring and evaluation provide invaluable information for
decision-making and lessons learned for the future.
Results-Based Monitoring
Results-based monitoring is a continuous process of collecting and
analyzing information to compare how well a project, program, or
policy is being implemented against expected results.
Key monitoring tools or mechanisms
Self assessments
Field visits
Reports
Review
Feedback from partners or beneficiaries on progress
Results-Based Evaluation
Evaluation
Analyzes why intended results were or were not achieved
Assesses specific causal contributions of activities to results
Accountability
results at higher level, e.g., at the impact and outcome levels, are predominantly
owned by national actors.
Inclusiveness
Finally, inclusiveness is another important Result Based Management feature.
Result Based Management must involve all relevant stakeholders, including,
whenever possible, different levels of government, social partners and civil society,
such as indigenous peoples, minorities and direct beneficiaries. One should not
expect stakeholders to be responsible for results and indicators they did not define,
negotiator agrees on. Stakeholder engagement is not only necessary for partnership
but also sustainability. Increasing evidence shows that sustainability is more likely
when stakeholders are involved in the development process from the onset: country
analysis, defining results and indicators, implementation, and monitoring and
evaluation of programmes and projects
What is result?
A result is a describable or measurable change in state that is derived from a cause
and-effect relationship. There are three types of such changes (intended or
unintended, positive and/or negative) which can be set in motion by a development
intervention that generates outputs, outcomes and impact. While it is expected that
result based management will lead to positive outcomes, since efforts most often
try to improve the socio-economic conditions of poor people, this is not always the
case. Change can sometimes lead to unintended consequences or negative impact.
Thus, it is important to manage for results that can truly have a real and meaningful
improvement on peoples lives.
REFERENCES
1.UNDP Handbook on planning, monitoring and evaluating for development
results, (2009).
2. Result based management, monitoring and evaluation, Workshop on the review
of Ethiopia decent work country programme, 8-10 august 2011.
3. Building Evaluation capacity to strengthen governance, Rist,Rac,World bank
Publications,2011
4. Evaluating Capacity Development: Horton, Douglas,ISNAR,2003.
Key to M&E
Quantitative or qualitative factor or variable that
provides a simple and