Results Based Management: Basic Principles & Processes

This an introductory course on Results Based Management (RBM) principles and results-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Considered a key management approach, RBM is a core staff skill everyone in KAICIID should acquire. The consistent use of RBM is critical to apply results-based M&E so as to achieve desired results and to report these results regularly to stakeholders. RBM principles forces us to ask: Are we doing the right thing? Are we doing it right? How do we know? If applied properly, these principles can strengthen one’s ability to review tools and techniques for planning and managing M&E activities and demonstrating results. Although M&E is fundamentally a programme/project-level activity, it requires effective collaboration between those who are monitoring at different levels and those implementing an intervention.

RBM, developed and refined through years of practitioner experience and applied research, is used to examine the component parts of RBM, especially Theory of Change, strategic results framework, risks and assumptions as part of integrated monitoring and evaluation as well as the use of evidence from monitoring and evaluation in decision-making and meaningful reporting to key stakeholders. The connections between the parts are mapped, and key features of a results culture identified, to show how the system should work as a unified whole. It is an extension of the M&E Policy Framework of the Centre and helps to apply it in practice. Trainees are expected to use the module to identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps in their own approach to RBM systems and cultures.

This course is composed of five parts:

• Part I: Introduction to RBM
• Part II: Setting a Results Based Strategy
• Part III: Theory of Change and Results Mapping
• Part IV: Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Instruments
• Part V: Results Matrix

This course is recommended for all KAICIID staff, and it is mandatory for the Programme Department’s professional staff. This RBM course is also open to KAICIID partners.