Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Result Based Monitoring (RBM)

Results-based monitoring is a continuous process of collecting and analyzing information, and comparing actual results to expected results in order to measure how well a project, program or policy is being implemented.

A results-based monitoring system provides crucial information about organizational performance. It can help policy makers, decision makers, and other stakeholders answer the fundamental questions of whether promises were kept and goals achieved. If organizations are promising improved performance, monitoring and valuation is the means by which improvements – or a lack of improvements – can be demonstrated. By reporting the results of various interventions organizations can promote credibility and donor’s confidence in their work.

A good results-based monitoring system can be extremely useful as a management and motivational tool. It helps focus people’s attention on achieving outcomes that are important to the organization and its stakeholders, and provides an impetus for establishing key goals and objectives that address these outcomes. It also promotes to managers crucial information on whether the theory of change guiding the intervention is appropriate, correct, and adequate to the changes being sought through this intervention.

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