Donor Agency RBM, Evaluation and Planning websites

The donor agencies' websites vary in quality, and they do not always implement their own results-based management guidelines, but if you are working with them, it is wise to know how the different agencies, at least in theory, approach results-based management.  The available RBM material includes:

Multilateral agency Results-Based Management

• UNIFEM's RBM guide -- one of the easiest of the donor agency materials to understand.  [See review]
  

• The UNDP Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results. [See discussion]

• The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services' online guide to Programme Performance Assessment in Results-based Management.

• The ILO draft RBM Guide [See discussion]

• The United Nations Evaluation Group's paper on The Role of Evaluation in Results Based Management.

• The United Nations Group Joint Inspection Unit's report on Implementation of Results-Based Management in United Nations Organizations.

• UNESCO's internal oversight portal, particularly the "evaluation reports"

• The Asian Development Bank's Introduction to Results Management.


• Kusek and Risk's World Bank report - "Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System" [available in English, French, Spanish and Vietnamese].

• Several papers on indicator development for democratic governance, human-rights based programming, local governance and public administration reform among others at the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre's Governance Assessment Portal.

• Glen Farrell's Handbook on Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation at the Commonwealth of Learning.
  

• UNICEF's "Understanding Results-Based Programme Planning and Management".

Bilateral Aid Agency Results-Based Management

• Several SIDA publications on the theory, uses and abuses of the Logical Framework Approach. [See reviews and discussion]

• The AusAid Ausguide 3.3: The Logical Framework Approach [See discussion]

• A DANIDA Guide to the Logical Framework Approach , which might be outdated [See discussion]

• The DFID How-To Note: Guidance on Using the Revised LFA (available from MaNDE) [See discussion]

• The EuropeAid Results Oriented Monitoring Handbook  [See discussion]

• RBM Tools at CIDA:  How-To Guide. [See discussion]

• The old, but still practical CIDA guide to planning large projects. [See review]
  

Useful Results-Based Management, Evaluation and Planning Tools

These websites have a variety of tools, opinions and news of potential relevance to people wanting to improve RBM skills:

• The University of Wisconsin's online self-study module: Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models.

• The Overseas Development Institute's Communications Toolkit page.

• Rick Davies' Monitoring and Evaluation News[See review]

• Philip Dearden's guide to Multi-Agency Planning Using the Logical Framework Approach.  [See review]

• Ted Jackson's discussion of potential compatibility of Results-Based Management and participatory evaluation.
  

• The Treasury Board of Canada's Managing for Results Self-Assessment Tool.

• The International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), which has several easy to understand documents, including The Use and Abuse of the Logical Framework Approach. [See review]
  

• An Indicator Development Guide excerpted from Results-Based Management training material by Greg Armstrong.

• Mark Schacter's writing on RBM and policy. [See review]

• The Results-Based Management Website Review Blog
  

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