Results-based management
Results-based management (RBM) is a program/project life cycle approach to management. It integrates:
- strategy
- people
- resources
- processes and measurements to improve decision-making
- transparency
- accountability
The approach focuses on:
- achieving outcomes
- implementing performance measurement
- learning
- adapting, and
- reporting on performance, including outcomes
Global Affairs Canada uses RBM to effectively and efficiently manage Canada's international assistance. It is more than just a set of tools; it is a management approach and a way of working that looks beyond activities and outputs to focus on actual result, the outcomes of projects and programs.
Policy
We use RBM to better manage Canada's international assistance program from start to finish: planning and implementation, evaluations, and reporting and integrating lessons learned into the development of future programs
Guidance
The policy is supported by a comprehensive guide for the application of RBM in international assistance programming.
- Results-based management for international assistance programming: A how-to guide
- International Assistance Results – Reporting Guide for Partners
The following tip sheets and checklists are designed to help users navigate sections of the RBM guide:
- Checklist 1.1: How to assess and/or review a logic model
- Checklist 2.1: How to assess and/or review a performance measurement framework
- Checklist 5.1: Reviewing Results Reports from Global Affairs Canada Implementers
- Tip Sheet 2.1: Results Chains and Definitions
- Tip sheet 2.2: Syntax structure of outcome, output and activity statements
- Tip sheet 2.3: Questions and approaches for Theory of Change clarification and refinement
- Tip sheet 3.1: Selection of performance indicators by level of outcome
- Tip sheet 3.2: Outcomes, indicators, baseline, targets and actual data
- Tip Sheet 4.1: Gender equality results and indicators
- Tip sheet 5.1 - Reporting on innovation in international assistance
- Glossary of results-based management terms
The Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to International Assistance:
An HRBA provides guidance on the type of results your projects should aim to achieve. It also tells you how to achieve them in a way that respects human rights. According to Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy, you must use an HRBA to design, implement, monitor, assess, and evaluate your projects and their results. These tools will help you apply HRBA to the lifecycle of your project:
Tools and templates
The following tools make it easier to manage for results throughout the entire life cycle of an investment or project for Global Affairs Canada staff, partners and executing agencies. Global Affairs Canada has standard templates for these tools:
- Logic Model Template and Outputs and Activities Matrix Template (PDF, 91 KB)
- Performance Measurement Framework Template (PDF, 1 MB)
- Risk Table template (PDF, 554 KB)
Related links
- Glossary of key terms in evaluation and results-based management (OECD-DAC)
- International program for development evaluation training
- Office of the Auditor General of Canada
- Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action
- Performance and Planning Exchange
- Policy on management, resources and results structures
- Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Centre of Excellence for Evaluation
- Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Results-Based Management lexicon
- UN Sustainable development goals
- Gender equality and empowerment measurement tool
- Results in development co-operation (OECD-DAC)
- Managing for Sustainable Development Results Guiding Principles (OECD-DAC)
- Global Affairs Canada’s architecture for results of international assistance (OECD-DAC)
- Global Affairs Canada’s internal capacity-building approach for results-based management (OECD-DAC)
- Global Affairs Canada’s approach to feminist evaluation practices (OECD-DAC)
- Results in Development Co-Operation: Provider Case Studies: Canada Global Affairs Canada (OECD-DAC)
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