Greg Armstrong has been working since 1967 in international development, in Asia and in Canada: in governance, rural development and education programming as a field manager, researcher, project designer, monitor and trainer.

Education

He received his doctorate in adult education, in 1981, from the University of Toronto, studying under Roby Kidd, the founder of the International Council for Adult Education, and Michael Fullan an international leader in the analysis of educational innovations and organizational change.  The field research for Greg Armstrong's doctoral dissertation focused on the processes and problems of implementing complex organizational innovations in the Thai Ministry of Education.  He has two masters degrees:  in planning (University of Toronto, 1973) and public administration (Carleton University, 1972).

RBM Training Approach

As a monitor, evaluator, and RBM trainer, Greg Armstrong applies basic concepts of adult learning and the implementation of change to the ways in which ideas -- such as Results-Based Management --  can be communicated and effectively applied in the practical world of day-to-day project management. 

His expertise is not primarily related to the specific fields of practice in which results and performance indicators need to be identified, but as a Results-Based Management analyst, and as a monitor, Greg Armstrong focuses on the processes of enabling practitioners in these fields -- the real experts -- to recognize the depth of their own understanding, and in the process, to themselves identify results, define and trace performance indicators, to explain in clear terms the results they are achieving or want to achieve.

Sectoral Application of RBM

Greg Armstrong's experience in the application of Results-Based Management to real-world situations includes work in training, needs assessments, policy analysis, project design, project field management, results-based monitoring, rapid appraisals and evaluation. 

His work has focused specifically on planning approaches and reporting mechanisms to clarify and simplify the identification of results, and to facilitate project management in a wide range of sectoral and thematic areas:

Public Sector Reform results

• Parliamentary development
• Coordination of government policy
• Public administration reform
• Elections commission capacity development
• Conflict of interest
• Police reform
• Conflict resolution capacity development
• Auditor General performance
• Food Quality

Institutional Development and Management results

• Host country aid management

• Civil society fund management

• Governance fund management

• Health fund management

• Regional and rural development institute management

Justice and Human Rights results

• Justice system reform

• Judicial reform
  

• Legal system monitoring capacity development

• Administrative court management

• Sentencing reform

• Institutionalization of human rights agencies

• Human rights training for journalists

• Human trafficking

• Border areas and refugees

  
  

Gender results

• CEDAW implementation

• Gender and Shariah Law in Aceh

• Applying qualitative research and RBM to gender in education

Rural Development and Environment results

• Rural development institute management

• Urban environmental management

• Decentralized environmental management

• Environmental governance
  

Education and Human Resource Development 

• Vocational education management
• Primary education and child-friendly schools
• Decentralization of education
• Regional University Outreach
• Regional human resource development in Southeast Asia
• Collaborative research skills development in the Mekong region

Health

• Health Fund proposal assessment
• Harmonization of bilateral MNCH results and indicators with multilateral donor criteria.
• Burma Border areas health care

RBM Training - Country Focus

Greg Armstrong's work specifically on results-based management includes multiple training, mentoring, monitoring and evaluation activities in:

• Vietnam

• Cambodia

• Thailand
• Lao PDR
• Indonesia
• India
• Tajikistan
• Bangladesh
• Burma border area
• Canada

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