tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87174597341534140732024-03-14T05:14:28.822-04:00Results-Based Management WebsitesResults-Based Management: This site reviews Results-Based Management handbooks, RBM guides, tools and websites.
Greg Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891315846345220585noreply@blogger.comBlogger3113tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717459734153414073.post-11904653805565780532020-11-10T11:38:00.250-05:002023-04-04T05:46:20.718-04:00Global Affairs Canada Results-Based Management Guides: 1998-2021<p> </p><p> <a href="https://www.rbmtraining.com/the-rbm-trainer.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Greg Armstrong</a><i> - </i><b><span style="color: #090e9b; font-size: medium;"><span>L</span><span>ast updated: April 2 2023</span></span></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Global Affairs Canada suite of Results-Based Management guides, tools and checklists are among the most practical guides available for the design, management, monitoring and results reporting for projects funded by any international agency. And, of course, they are essential for anyone bidding on or implementing projects funded by Global Affairs Canada. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As strong as the project-level RBM guides are, however, the agency-wide results framework for GAC is surprisingly weak.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This article reviews the most recent changes made to the GAC RBM system between 2016-2023, considers how flexible the GAC Results-Based Management system is, in practice, and looks at the state of agency-wide Global Affairs Canada results reporting, in early 2023.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVcrJWEVe0u4F6IwVyrWaQIap6CcGJaEtMO1tHsqkLOEypXcGW4xPCgQjtqnDLrjVIwVrx7cI4FsLmyXy1wKNK7n-6EIpcGf_myjDhz9ImQq5YwWin-1IOmkEx0Yb01ho7rIRPDhvdGSb/s1117/Global+Affairs+Canada+RBM+Guides+1998-2020.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="16 GAC RBM guides, tables and checklists inside a red Canadian maple leaf symbol" border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1117" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVcrJWEVe0u4F6IwVyrWaQIap6CcGJaEtMO1tHsqkLOEypXcGW4xPCgQjtqnDLrjVIwVrx7cI4FsLmyXy1wKNK7n-6EIpcGf_myjDhz9ImQq5YwWin-1IOmkEx0Yb01ho7rIRPDhvdGSb/w400-h337/Global+Affairs+Canada+RBM+Guides+1998-2020.png" title="GAC RBM Guides 1998-2021" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GAC RBM Guides: 1998-2021</td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #090e9b; font-size: large;">Contents</span></b></div>
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<li><span style="color: #090e9b;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-1">GAC RBM Guides</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #090e9b;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-2">GAC Results Terminology</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #090e9b;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-3">The Global Affairs Canada Results Chain</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-4">Key GAC RBM Tools</a>:</b></span></li>
<ul><li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-5">The GAC Logic Model</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-6">The GAC Performance Measurement Framework</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-7">The GAC Risk Framework</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-8">RBM Templates</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#matrix">The Output-Activities Matrix</a></b></span></li></ul>
<li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-10">A New GAC Results Reporting Format</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#heading-11">Limitations of the GAC RBM Guides</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#adaptive-RBM">Is the GAC RBM system adaptive?</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #0a067a;"><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#GAC-RBM-Framework"><b>A Weak Agency-Wide GAC Results Framework</b></a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #090e9b;"><b><a href="https://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#Changing-Departmental-Indicators ">Changing GAC Indicators</a></b></span></li>
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</div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span></span></h4></div><a href="http://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2020/11/GAC-RBM-2021.html#more">Read more »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">For more information on Results-Based Management Training go to Https://www.rbmtraining.com</div>Greg Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891315846345220585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717459734153414073.post-84898868672697946582019-01-09T16:18:00.005-05:002023-04-01T00:26:36.806-04:00How GIZ uses Results-Based Management in Monitoring and Evaluation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With $16 billion in 1,700 ongoing technical cooperation projects, and more than 19,000 staff working in 130 countries, GIZ is one of the world’s biggest technical cooperation implementing agencies. This article reviews the GIZ role in German international development assistance and, GIZ policies on Results-Based Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.<br>
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biggest donor in Europe, and the second biggest in the world. It ranked 6th in Europe in terms of % of GNI contributed.<br>
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largest components of this development assistance are managed by <a href="https://www.kfw.de/KfW-Group/Newsroom/Latest-News/Pressemitteilungen-Details_479872.html" target="_blank">KfW Development Bank</a> and its subsidiary DEG, the German Investment Corporation and<a href="http://www.bmz.de/en/ministry/index.html" target="_blank"> BMZ</a> – the Ministry of Economic
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<span style="color: #20124d;">While much of this German ODA was managed by KfW Development Bank, and other government Ministries, BMZ - The Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, administered the largest portion of the budget -roughly 37% of the ODA budget in 2017, and that was predicted to <a href="https://www.die-gdi.de/en/briefing-paper/article/scope-and-structure-of-german-official-development-assistance-trends-and-implications-for-the-bmz-and-other-ministries/" target="_blank">rise to 49% ( $10.7 billion) in 2018</a>.</span></div>
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The largest component of the BMZ aid budget in 2018 was allocated to <a href="http://www.bmz.de/en/ministry/InDetail/budget/index.html" target="_blank">bilateral development cooperation</a>.<br>
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financial cooperation, some through the European Union’s aid mechanisms, some to the World<br>
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Germany is, for example, the <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/funding/core-donors/Germany.html" target="_blank">largest government contributor to the UNDP</a>.<br>
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And Germany supported close to 2,000 UNDP projects through UNDP regular resources and another 113 UNDP projects directly in 2017. </div>
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GIZ, as an implementing agency itself received roughly 2.6 billion Euros (close to $3 billion) in 2017, roughly 2.5 billion coming from BMZ and other German ministries, the rest from organizations such as the European Union, U.N. agencies, foundations or private sector companies, for the implementation of technical cooperation activities and between 2015-2017 was the largest recipient of Europeaid contracts, and although no longer the single largest recipient in January 2019 remained in the top 3.</div>
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Over the past 5 years GIZ has been awarded <a href="https://europeaidcontracts.com/CompanyDetail.aspx?c=cc534c43-184a-495b-8fe8-63f087dffb4d&Demo=ok" target="_blank">218 EuropeAid contracts </a>worth roughly $450 million.</div>
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The OECD has produced 7 case studies on how Results-Based Management policies are used by the World Bank, and the international aid agencies for Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and New Zealand. These guides will not help anyone manage a project, but they do provide a useful comparative overview of the intentions of these agencies as they seek to create usable, comprehensible Results-Based Management frameworks.<br>
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<b>Level of Difficulty:</b> Moderate-Complex<br>
<b>Length:</b> 10-15 pages for each case study, 33 pages for the synthesis<br>
<b>Primarily useful for:</b> Implementing agency managers<br>
<b>Most useful:</b> Annex 1 of the synthesis document<br>
<b>Limitations:</b> The studies present one side of the analysis – from the agency management, not from users<br>
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In 2016 and 2017 OECD produced 7 very short case studies (all PDF files) on how Results-Based Management was used for agency management in planning and reporting on aid projects in 2016 and 2017. While for some of these agencies things have changed substantially since then, the summaries are still useful guides to the general results orientation of aid agencies. The seven case studies include:</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-world-bank.pdf" target="_blank">The World Bank</a>, </li><li>The <a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-switzerland.pdf" target="_blank">Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation</a>, </li><li>The <a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-new-zealand.pdf" target="_blank">New Zealand Aid Programme</a>, </li><li>The <a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-sweden.pdf" target="_blank">Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency</a>, </li><li><a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-canada.pdf" target="_blank">Global Affairs Canada</a>, </li><li>The United Kingdoms’ agency formerly known as the <a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-UK.pdf" target="_blank">Department for International Development</a>, and </li><li>The <a href="https://www.oecd.org/dac/results-development/docs/results-case-study-netherlands.pdf" target="_blank">Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a>. </li><li>OECD also produced a useful synthesis report <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qdWVZCzFJvETwipv9UXsDa9qE1oT64qv/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">comparing the use of RBM in the seven aid agencies</a>, as it stood in 2017.</li></ul>
<br><h3 style="text-align: left;">Utility and Limitations of the OECD country case studies</h3>
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For any implementing agency manager
considering either bidding for a project funded by one of these
agencies, or for anyone working on a multi-donor project, trying to understand
what drives different agencies’ results agenda, each of these guides can
provide some superficial introductory summaries of what the insiders in the agencies have
to work with, and what pressures may be on them as they manage their agencies
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But aid agency administrators often think their own agency’s approach to RBM is easier to understand than do the implementing partners, who have to translate the often arcane Results-Based Management policies into practical plans and reports.<br>
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These are very short case studies, based on documentary analysis and interviews with aid agency managers, and therefore they present only one side of the story on each agency’s approach to results-based management.<br>
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Those who want detailed guidance on how to implement the Results Based Management frameworks in any practical way will not find it in these reports. That guidance is, for some, but not all of the agencies, available from their websites.<br>
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Links to Aid Agency Results-Based Management Guides and Handbooks</h4>Update: A few of the studies, such as those on the Netherlands, The United Kingdom and Sweden, still provide more information than anything publicly available on those donors' own websites. But, since these case studies were originally produced, and since I originally wrote this review in March 2018, a number of the links to aid agency sources have expired, or disappeared. Those who want more detailed guidance on how the different agencies incorporate Results-Based Management in their work, <i>may</i> in some cases find them (as of February 2023) at these links:<br><br>
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<li>The web page describing how the <a href="http://scorecard.worldbank.org/" target="_blank">World Bank uses results scorecards in Results-Based Management</a> is still useful.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation's website at first glance makes it easier to find information on priorities, than on results. The agency's monitoring and evaluation page includes a link to a 52-page report on <a href="https://www.eda.admin.ch/deza/en/home/sdc/publications.html/content/publikationen/en/deza/rechenschaftsberichte/Schlussbericht-Umsetzung-Botschaft-2017-2020.html" target="_blank">results of the Swiss development cooperation programme</a> between 2017 and 2019 [a very large 16 MB file] which does provide some interesting indicators on Switzerland's contributions to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and this suggests that somewhere there are more details on a results framework. This page also has a link to a publicly available interactive<a href="https://rise.articulate.com/share/oPu-uFZAE0-X9S6EnnyBJ_WrjrYiTCFh#/" target="_blank"> e-learning course on Project Cycle Management</a>. </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> The New Zealand Aid Programme's <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/aid-and-development/our-approach-to-aid/managing-for-results/" target="_blank"> managing for results page</a>, provides little information, but if readers do a <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/search?keyword=results&x=0&y=0&page=1&type=file" target="_blank">search for results</a> we can find a number of documents used in the past to guide work on results. These include: </li><ul><li>The 2015-2019 <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Aid-Prog-docs/Partnerships/Strategic-Results-Framework-Goals-Outcomes-and-Indicators.pdf" target="_blank">Strategic Results Framework for New Zealand aid </a>- a single-page, but large format table listing intended results and indicators for 12 themes, which are a subset of the 17 <a href="https://sdg-tracker.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable Development Goals</a>. The 2 or 3 indicators per results theme in this table appear for the most part to be variations on indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals, of a type similarly used by the Asian Development Bank at the strategic level.</li><li>The useful <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Aid-Prog-docs/Partnerships/Strategic-Results-Framework-The-Detailed-Indicator-Sets.pdf" target="_blank">Detailed Indicator Sets</a> for the same 12 themes. These have 30-40 indicators for each theme, divided into general and capacity development.</li><li>The 22-page <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Aid-Prog-docs/Partnerships/MFAT-guidance-on-developing-a-results-framework-June-2016.pdf" target="_blank">MFAT Guidance on Developing a Results Framework</a></li><li>Some of the agency's yearly reports provide indicators that results are being achieved in some regional programmes. Evaluation documents do refer to Outcomes and contributing Outputs for programmes such as the <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Aid-Prog-docs/Evaluations/2022/Pacific-Capacity-Development-Programme-Evaluation.pdf#page=9" target="_blank">Pacific Islands Capacity Development Programme </a> [p. 7] </li></ul></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Swiss Development Cooperation Agency's <a href="https://www.eda.admin.ch/deza/en/home/results-impact/wirkungsmessung/monitoring-evaluationen.html" target="_blank">monitoring and evaluation page</a> includes a link to a 52-page report on <a href="https://www.eda.admin.ch/deza/en/home/sdc/publications.html/content/publikationen/en/deza/rechenschaftsberichte/Schlussbericht-Umsetzung-Botschaft-2017-2020.html" target="_blank">results of the Swiss development cooperation</a> programme between 2017 and 2019 [a very large 16 MB file] which does provide some interesting indicators on Switzerland's contributions to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. This page also has a link to a publicly available interactive <a href="https://rise.articulate.com/share/oPu-uFZAE0-X9S6EnnyBJ_WrjrYiTCFh#/" target="_blank">e-learning course on Project Cycle Management</a>.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Publicly available information on <a href="https://www.sida.se/en/for-partners/partnership-with-sida/results-based-management" target="_blank">Results-Based Management at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency</a> has been substantially reduced.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>The most recent <a href="http://international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/results_based_management-gestion_axee_resultats.aspx?lang=eng" target="_blank">Global Affairs Canada Results-Based Management Guide, tools and checklists</a> have been updated within the past year.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>The somewhat dated <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/360906/DFID-external-results-Sep_2014.pdf" target="_blank">2014 Department for International Development results framework</a> from the United Kingdom is still useful, but it is not clear if it is still being applied within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since the demise of DFID.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>The basically (in English at any rate) opaque <a href="https://www.nlontwikkelingssamenwerking.nl/en/#/about" target="_blank"> Dutch Development Results site</a> unfortunately is less useful than the OECD case study, and subsumes the Dutch Development results within the framework of the SDGS. This includes links to results by 11 SDG themes, and for 20 countries.</li>
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Lessons Learned from the Case Studies</h3>
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Of potentially more interest from a comparative perspective is the 31-
page synthesis report <a href="https://doi.org/10.1787/544032a1-en" target="_blank">Strengthening the Results Chain</a> by Rosie Zwart. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This document summarizes and analyses the challenges facing the different agencies, in terms of how they link their internal results frameworks to long term international development results, how they use <a href="http://results-based-management.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-dangers-of-using-standard.html" target="_blank">standard indicators</a>, and the problems associated with this, how the results and indicators contribute to accountability, how attribution of credit for results is handled in each agency, how they use narratives to make sense of the results frameworks, and the extent to which results reporting contributes to any meaningful learning – and change, within the agencies<br>
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Readers may find the Annex to the report, which summarizes many of these issues by aid agency, useful, before deciding whether to read the individual country reports.<br>
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<b>The bottom line:</b> These case studies can provide useful overviews of the challenges facing different aid agencies as they implement Results-Based Management. Policies change, however, and readers should check the agencies' own websites for updates.<br>
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