Managing for Development Results, Principles in Action:
Sourcebook on Emerging Good Practice.
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Released in March 2006, it compiles some 20 examples – illustrations of how different groups in different circumstances applied the principles of managing for results, what challenges they met, and how they attempted to meet those challenges.
A product of the OECD-DAC Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results, it is an 'idea book' about how development agencies can achieve five core principles on managing for results endorsed at the Paris High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005).
Download the entire document or specific sections below in PDF format:
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness [85 kb]
Abbreviations and Acronyms [19 kb]
Introduction to the Sourcebook [22 kb]
Part 1. MfDR Concepts, Tools and Principles [156 kb]
Part 2. Examples of MfDR at the National Level - Overview [105 kb]
- Chile: Management Control Systems and Results-Based Budgeting [449 kb]
- El Salvador: Results-Based Management for Evaluating Public Policy [46 kb]
- Tanzania: Harmonization of Results Reporting [58 kb]
- Timor-Leste: Managing for Results in a Fragile Post conflict Setting [68 kb]
- Vietnam: A Comprehensive Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction [158 kb]
- Nepal: Toward Results-Based Management [35 kb]
- Uganda: Evolution and Alignment of an Orientation to Results
[88 kb]
Part 3. Examples of MfDR in Sector Programs and Projects
- Overview [23 kb]
- Brazil: Bolsa Familia Program – Scaling-up Cash Transfers for the Poor [67 kb]
Madagascar: National Environmental Action Plan [62 kb] - Malawi: A National HIV/AIDS Monitoring & Evaluation System [75 kb]
- Thailand: Rationalization and Corporate Governance of Specialized Financial Institutions [38 kb]
- Uganda: Assessing Performance of the Water and Sanitation Sector [52 kb]
- Yemen: Social Fund for Development III Project [54 kb]
The Doing Business Project Southeast Europe: Improving the Climate for Trade and Transport [41 kb] - Southeast Europe: Improving the Climate for Trade and
Transport [62 kb] - Burkina Faso: Ten-Year Basic Education Development Plan [38 kb]
- Nepal Education Sector: Planning for Results in an Unstable Setting [59 kb]
Part 4. Examples of MfDR in Development Agencies
- Overview [24 kb]
- Canadian International Development Agency: Corporate Managing for Development Results [47 kb]
Results-oriented Country Programming: Applying the Principles of Managing for Results and Emerging Practices and Lessons [53 kb] - Emerging Practices of Results-Based Country Programming among Aid Agencies [114 kb]
Part 5. Findings and Lessons Learned [69 kb]
References and Resources [30 kb]
Go to Managing for Development Results for more information
Website (URL): http://www.mfdr.org/Sourcebook.html