Intense analysis of the U.N. Results-Based Management System May 5, 2009
Posted by Paul Duignan in : Accountability, Attribution, Doing evaluation more efficiently, Indicators, Measurement, Outcomes models, Outcomes systems architecture, Outcomes theory, Reporting systems, Standards, Using the approach , trackbackI have just put up an Outcomes Theory Knowledge Base article which is an intense analysis of the United Nation Results-Based Management System. (Its obscure work, but someone has to do it!). The exciting part is that it has let me road-test my new Outcomes Systems Checklist. This now provides a common framework for analyzing any outcomes system – outcomes systems being any system which attempts to identify, measure, attribute or hold parties to account for outcomes or the steps which it is thought lead to them. A 2008 report from the U.N. itself on its Results-Based Management System said that the system was: ‘an administrative chore of little value to accountability and decision-making”.
When the system is analyzed using the newly developed Outcomes Systems Checklist, the reason for its flaws are immediately obvious. It suffers from the single indicator list problem and the non-output attributable intermediate outcomes paradox which I’ve been blogging about recently. Anyway doing the analysis was a lot of fun, if you are into that sort of thing (i.e. your horizons for fun are rather limited).
Duignan, P. (2009). United Nations Results-Based Management System – An analysis. Outcomes Theory Knowledge Base Article No. 244. (http://knol.google.com/k/paul-duignan-phd/the-united-nations-results-based/2m7zd68aaz774/81).
Paul Duignan, PhD
Outcomes and Evaluation Blog (OutcomesBlog.org)
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