Third International Roundtable
Day 1 –
Monday, February 5


     Common Performance Assessment System - COMPAS

The purpose of the Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Common Performance Assessment System (COMPAS) is to provide a common ground where the five members of the MDB Working Group on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) may jointly report on their own performance. The impetus for this kind of reporting framework stems from the growing public demand for information about the performance of various actors in the international development community, in which the MDBs play a major role.

The essence of the COMPAS is found in the section “2006 COMPAS Matrix of Categories and Indicators” (Chapter II), which provides detailed information on MDB performance with respect to 7 categories, including 18 sub-categories and 30 indicators.

It is important to note that the purpose of the COMPAS is to report on MDB performance, not on country-level results, which are a joint product of several actors, including the MDBs. The COMPAS does not intend to encourage comparisons among MDBs comparisons among them are exceedingly difficult in view of their significant differences (as indicated in the Annex “Profiles of Multilateral Development Banks”) but rather to provide baseline data against which each MDB may ascertain its own progress over time.

The 2006 COMPAS is intended to serve as an input to the 2007 Global Monitoring Report and is the focus of a session organized by the MDBs and the OECD/DAC during the first day of the Third International Roundtable on Managing for Development Results (Hanoi, February 2007).

Available Downloads:

Chapters:

I. BACKGROUND [pdf – 226kb], including sections: A. Overview, B. Main Findings, and C. The Way Forward

II. 2006 COMPAS MATRIX OF CATEGORIES AND INDICATORS

 
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