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  • Implementation Overview

  • Population Accountability

  • Performance Accountability

  • Implementation Overview

Basic Ideas

  • 1.1  What are the basic ideas behind Results-Based Accountability, and results-based decision making and budgeting?
  • 1.2  How is this different from all the other approaches we\’ve seen over the years? Why is this not just the latest fad?
  • 1.3  How do we get people to care about this work?

Getting Started

  • 1.4  Where do we start?
  • 1.5  How do we get people together to do this work
  • 1.6  Where do we start in a (state, county, city or community) that wants to do this? Where do we start in one that doesn\’t want to do this?
  • 1.7  What do we do with people who are cynical and burned out from the last time we tried this?
  • 1.8  How do we fit together different approaches when there is more than one approach to Results-Based Accountability being used in my area?
  • 1.9  How can we work on long term well-being in a political environment with term limits and demands for immediate success?
  • 1.10  How is this work different in the executive branch vs. legislative branch?
  • 1.11  How do we do this if the levels above us (e.g. federal, state, county, city) don\’t care and won\’t help?
  • 1.12  How do we keep this simple? (Or What do we do when things go off track?)
  • 1.13  How long should all of this take?
  • Population Accountability

Basic Ideas

  • 2.1  What are the basic ideas of results-based decision making and budgeting?
  • 2.2   What is the difference between population well-being (population accountability) and client well-being (performance accountability) and why is this important?
  • 2.3  How do we get people to understand the difference between indicators and performance measures?

Identifying Populations

  • 2.4  What are some populations for which results can be developed and used?

Choosing Results

  • 2.5  How do we select results for a given population?

Selecting Indicators

  • 2.6   How do we identify results in terms of everyday experience?
  • 2.7  How do we select indicators for a result?
  • 2.8  Where do we get the data for indicators? How do we get better data?
  • 2.9  What do we do if we don\’t have any good data at all?
  • 2.10  How do we create a report card and what do we do with it? (on child and family well-being, for other populations, for an entire community quality of life)

Creating Baselines

  • 2.11  How do we create a baseline (trend line) for an indicator?

Identifying What Works and Creating a Strategy

  • 2.12  How do we identify what works to improve conditions of well-being?

Developing an Action Plan and Budget

  • 2.13  How do we create an action plan and budget?
  • 2.14  How do we finance a results-based plan?
  • 2.15  OK, so what\’s the link to the budget?
  • 2.16  How do we create a Family and children\’s Budget (an Elder\’s Budget, An Environmental Budget) and what do we do with it?
  • 2.17  How do we create a Cost of Bad Results report and what do we do with it?
  • 2.18  How do we present a results-based plan to the public, to political leadership?
  • 2.19  How can we get more flexibility in the use of the money in the service system?

Implementing and Monitoring the Plan

  • 2.20  How do we oversee the implementation of a results-based plan?
  • 2.21  How do we report on progress?
  • Performance Accountability

Basic Ideas

  • 3.1  What are the basic ideas behind performance accountability?
  • 3.2  How do we get people to understand the difference between Results-Based Accountability? (reprise)
  • 3.3  What is the difference between indicators and performance measures? How do Results-Based Accountability fit together?
  • 3.4  What is the relationship between performance measurement, performance accountability and evaluation?
  • 3.5  Where do we start in an organization that wants to do this?
  • 3.6  Where do we start in an organization that doesn\’t want to do this?

Identifying Performance Measures

  • 3.7  How do we help people identify performance measures for their program or service?
  • 3.8  What is the difference between measures that answer: “How much did we do? How well did we do it? and Is anyone better off?”
  • 3.9  What is the difference between the 4 Quadrant performance measures and logic model performance measures?
  • 3.10  How do we identify performance measures for administrative functions like personnel, budgeting, etc.?
  • 3.11  What are some examples of performance measures we can use for my program or service?

Selecting Performance Measures

  • 3.12  How do we select the most important ” headline: performance measures for my program or service?
  • 3.13  Where do we get the data to do this work? How do we get better data?

Using Performance Measures to Improve Performance

  • 3.14  What do we do with performance measures once we have them? How can we use performance measures to improve performance?
  • 3.15  How do we use performance measures in writing and overseeing grants and contracts?
  • 3.16  How do we use performance measures in budgeting?
  • 3.17  How do we use performance measures in writing grant applications?  
  • 3.18  How do we use performance measures to improve cross agency service systems?
  • 3.19  How do we create a performance improvement system in our organization?
2018-08-14T13:41:24-04:00By Kayleigh P. Marques|Comments Off on imp guide tabs

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