Managing for Development Results Principles in Action:
Sourcebook
on Emerging Good Practice
Introduction
The need to better manage for results – to use information to improve decision making and steer country-led development processes toward clearly defined goals – has come to the forefront of the global development agenda since the Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development in 2002. The Monterrey Conference called for a new partnership for development in which developing countries increase their commitment to policies and actions that promote economic growth and reduce poverty, and developed countries support them through more effective aid and trade policies. In this context of shared responsibility, global attention has turned to management strategies to achieve results.
What is the Sourcebook? The Sourcebook is intended to increase understanding of the ideas behind MfDR and to show how it is being used in partner countries and international development agencies. Specifically, it • provides an update on the global partnership to reduce poverty and to enhance development effectiveness through MfDR • presents some important concepts behind MfDR and describes the five principles of MfDR agreed on at the 2004 Marrakech Roundtable on Results • provides some illustrative examples of how MfDR is being used in practical ways at the country, program, project, agency, and interagency levels. The Sourcebook is not the final word on MfDR, nor is it intended to serve as an operational manual for how to do MfDR. The principles will continue to evolve as more lessons and good practices are documented. The illustrative examples also help substantiate and better explain the principles. It is hoped that the Sourcebook can be used as a learning tool to provoke discussion and sharing around MfDR and improve it further. |
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What led us to the Sourcebook? Since Monterrey, a global agenda and community of practice on managing for development results (MfDR) has started to emerge. In the period leading up to the Marrakech International Roundtable on Results in February 2004, through discussions and exchange of views, this community defined the conceptual framework and the principles of MfDR. To address this demand, the OECD/DAC-MDB Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results, established under the auspices of the DAC-OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices, undertook to develop a Sourcebook on the principles and emerging good practice in MfDR. Who is the Sourcebook for? • Policy advisors and public sector managers who are working to achieve national development outcomes through government programs or projects • Development agency staff and managers who are working within their agencies, across agencies, and with partner countries to support country development outcomes. |