Joint Accountability: Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses the concept of accountability and how systems outside of your individual organization have to establish a level of joint accountability in order to succeed. Canada presses that accountability is a necessary standard for achieving results. Without joint accountability programs internally, as well as externally [...]

Policy Makers and Results: Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses the discrepancies between policy created to improve the lives of students and the reality of those policies when put into action. Canada speaks about the importance of using Results-Based Accountability™ Framework to clearly track the accomplishments of policies enacted on behalf of children to [...]

The Difficulty of Solving Community Problems: Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses the factors that can complicate finding solutions to community problems and how the use of Results-Based Accountability™ can be used to create a successful strategy that can be implemented effectively on a large scale in several communities. Using RBA to measure the problem correctly [...]

Results Frame = Common Sense: Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses how the Results-Based Accountability™ Framework allows organizations to improve their practice with time. The presence of clear results and indicators help to inform necessary change and create a clear trajectory for success. This focus on data that many organizations overlook is a crucial aspect [...]