Global Affairs Canada Results-Based Management Guides: 1998-2021

 

 Greg Armstrong - Last updated: April 2 2023

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.   

As strong as the project-level RBM guides are, however, the agency-wide results framework for GAC is surprisingly weak.

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.

GAC RBM Guides: 1998-2021

Contents

• GAC RBM Guides
• GAC Results Terminology
• The Global Affairs Canada Results Chain
• Key GAC RBM Tools:
• The GAC Logic Model
• The GAC Performance Measurement Framework
• The GAC Risk Framework
• RBM Templates
• The Output-Activities Matrix
• A New GAC Results Reporting Format
• Limitations of the GAC RBM Guides
• Is the GAC RBM system adaptive?
• A Weak Agency-Wide GAC Results Framework
• Changing GAC Indicators

GAC RBM Guides