Management for Development Results
All over the world, since the mid 90s, the public sector has come increasingly under pressure to be more effective and accountable. Consequently management for development results, also known as result based management, has become the management approach for many governments. This is also true for development and international cooperation. Effectiveness and accountability are high on the agenda of donors, partner governments, non governmental organisations, unions, etc. Today's result agenda has its roots in the Millennium Development Goals. Since the Monterrey conference of 2002 and the international round tables in Marrakech and Paris on results and aid effectiveness, the concept of managing for development results has rapidly gained importance. For those willing to focus more on results, however, it is sometimes hard to know how and where to begin, whom to involve and where to look for assistance.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course you will understand the results based management approach and you will have identified
consequences of this approach for your own work and organisation. You will understand the principles of management for
development results and have an overview of essential tools. This will enable you to analyse the result focus of your
own work and organisation and identify the most essential tools to strengthen this result focus.
Participants
You (and your organisation) are particularly interested in focussing more on results. You are looking for a good overview of the present thinking, donor and partner country experiences, as well as the range of available tools. You are not looking for recipes or very specific tools, but willing to reflect seriously on your own organisation and on the possibilities for a more results based orientation.
Course Content
After an update on the present debate on aid effectiveness in general and of management for
development results (MfDR) in particular, you will look more closely at the five MfDR principles. Those principles
appear to be very helpful while making general concepts, such as ownership, harmonisation, alignment, results and
mutual accountability operational. For the different principles, methods for application will be identified and
discussed. Moreover, you will analyse the consequences of the approach for your own work and organisation.
Indicative Course Outline
Duration and course content are adapted to the client's needs and expectations. An example of a course outline is hereunder.
| Monday | What is Result Based Management ? - Public sector reforms - Consensus on aid effectiveness - Aid approaches and instruments - MfDR concepts, principles and instruments |
| Tuesday | MfDR principles 1, 2, 3 - Principle 1: Dialogue on results - Principle 2 : Programming, monitoring and evaluation for results - Principle 3 : (Simple) measurement and reporting Applying the principles: analysis of your own situation, presentations, feedback and panel debate |
| Wednesday | MfDR principles 4, 5 - Principle 4 : Manage for, not by, results - Principle 5 : Results information for learning and decision making Applying the principles: Analysis of your own situation, presentations, feedback and panel debate Action planning Presentations and feedback |
Training Method
The training method used is highly participatory. The trainers will propose theoretical tools and models for analysis which will be linked to day-to-day practice through practical exercises based on case material brought in by the client. Standard case material can also be provided by MDF.
During this process, the trainers will stimulate discussions and the exchange of practical experiences and know-how between participants.
Our participative and interactive method enables to:
• take into account the expectations of the participants
• switch from theory to practice and vice versa with discussions between participants
• alternate group work with personal brainstorming
• control the intervention of participants, which are foreseen at precise moments
Registration
MDF Brussels delivers this training only on tailor made basis for organisations*.
It is our role to target your organisation's requests. We will be happy to identify with you a training programme that meets your needs.
Please contact us.
* Open inscription courses on this topic for individual participants are organised by MDF in the Netherlands and by
our various other branch offices. We refer individual participants who wish to attend this course to the MDF group
website for further details and on-line registration.
