Result Based Management

Scope

It was increasingly recognized that a change needed to be made in the programmes supported by NLR, from a traditional medical technical oriented planning and monitoring system to a result based management system. A change in mindset was required as well as within partner organizations as within NLR itself.

The implementation process started in 2004 and the process is now well advanced and RBM is the management tool of choice in most programmes. Various workshops were staged to shape this process, from individual project level to country level to international level. Reports and working documents were produced to provide direction and guidance.

To facilitate the use of these documents, to provide a place for materials still to be produced and to stimulate a further exchange on their contents a special Subject Guide on RBM has been created by Infolep. For further information kindly contact Daan Ponsteen, Jiske Erlings (or Jos Brand external advisor on RBM).

Key Documents

1. Guidelines Result Based Planning workshops

This document outlines the setting in which Result Based Planning workshops are staged and the place they take within the NLR project management Cycle. Experience gained in previous workshops has been translated into detailed arrangements for the preparation, facilitation and implementation of the workshops

Download guidelines and annexes.

2. Report RBM workshop surabaya

A three day workshop was organized by NLR in December 2009 in Surabaya Indonesia to inventory progress made in the implementation process of RBM in NLR supported programmes. Delegations from five countries and NLR Head Quarter staff and Advisers participated. The report on this workshop contains both reflections on the past as well as clear steps to be taken to make the implementation process successful.

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3. Policy paper for the introduction of Result Based Management in partner countries

One of the important lessons learned in the implementation of RBM is that this implementation has to be seen as a process with different phases. A contextual analysis and a dialogue with partners are important initial steps to be taken. They determine the subsequent implementation and the eventual outcome of the process. The guidelines describe these process phases.

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4. Information for workshop participants

Participants in RBM workshops are often not versatile with the concept of RBM, the terminology used. Neither are they used to participative approaches. A recommendation of the Surabaya workshop was thus that concise information on these topics would be framed in a modest document which can be forwarded to participants beforehand. (This document is also included in the Guidelines for RBM planning workshops as Annex III ).

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