RBA Professional Certification Results-Based Accountability TM
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Master the principles of Results-Based Accountability, boost your leadership potential, and help improve your community with an RBA Professional Certification from Clear Impact. 

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Course Outline

Module

Learning Objectives

Activities

End of Module Quiz?
Turn the Curve Thinking Participants will understand and be able to:

  • Explain Turn the Curve Thinking in plain language
  • Apply in decision-making each of the Turn the Curve questions:
    • Explain the underlying purpose of each question
    • Explain and apply the basic steps to answering each question
    • Organize information according to where it fits in the five questions
  • Explain why Turn the Curve Thinking is “ends” to “means” decision-making
  • Turn the Curve Wheel
  • Turn the Curve Thinking Sorting Exercise
 Yes
Language Discipline; Population and Performance Accountability Participants will understand and be able to explain:

  • The importance of language discipline in applying RBA
  • The difference between population and performance accountability
  • The three kinds of performance measures
  • RBA Building Blocks
  • Population Results, Indicators, or Performance Measures
  • Tool for Choosing Common
 Yes
RBA Applied Using a case study, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the application of basic RBA principles and concepts to measurably improve the well-being of a whole population and the clients of an agency or program
  • Identify and develop results and indicators
  • Identify and develop headline performance measures
  • Types of Performance Measures
 Yes
The Matters of Accountability, Contribution, and Performance Participants will be able to understand and explain how the following concepts apply to RBA:

  • Joint accountability for the whole versus accountability for the parts
  • The contribution relationship between the whole and the parts, especially between indicators and performance measures
  • Why performance measures alone are not enough to judge or compare performance
 • None at this time Yes
Building a Learning Organizations with RBA Participants will understand and apply RBA to:

  • Building a culture that promotes transparency in decision-making
  • Promoting dialogue for surfacing and challenging assumptions
  • Discussion vs. Dialogue
 Yes
From the Well-being of Whole Populations to the Performance of the Smallest Programs Participants will be able to understand and explain:

  • The comprehensive nature of RBA as a framework that extends from the well being of whole populations to the performance of the smallest programs.
  • The application of RBA principles and concepts to align management, budgeting and strategic planning
  • How Results-Based Budgeting is different from traditional budgeting
  • The application of RBA to legislative hearings
  • The application of RBA to grants and contracts management
  • Scope or Level of Accountability
  • Results-Based Budgeting (Part 1)
  • Results-Based Budgeting (Part 2)
 Yes
Getting Started with and Sustaining the Practice of RBA Participants will understand and apply RBA to:

  • Keys to implementing and sustaining RBA in:
    • Communities
    • Whole governments
    • Multi-agency Service Systems
    • Agencies
    • Explaining how to “crosswalk” from RBA to other frameworks
  • Logic Model/RBA Crosswalk
 Yes

Final Assessments
Final Exam The final exam is a comprehensive summary of all of the learning materials throughout the course and users pass the multiple-choice exam with a score of 80% or above.
Turn the Curve Action Plan To complete this assessment, users identify an Indicator or Performance Measure of their choice and complete a Turn the Curve Action Plan. (Scoring rubric provided)
RBA Presentation To complete this assessment, users upload a presentation that covers basic RBA concepts and principles in 30-40 minutes. (Scoring rubric provided)

For additional information on the Results-Based Accountability Professional Certification e-mail Clear Impact at certification@clearimpact.com.

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$2,250USD 

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