Published: May 5th, 2022
Results-Based Accountability™ (“RBA”) is a decision-making framework that helps government agencies, non-profits, communities, and foundations improve the lives of children, families, and communities worldwide by delivering long-term, measurable impact. It also helps organizations and agencies improve the performance of their programs and services.
To help groups implement RBA effectively, we’ve just released a new and improved version of our Results-Based Accountability Guide. You can download the new guide at https://clearimpact.com/resources/publications/results-based-accountability-guide/.
About the Results-Based Accountability Guide
The Results-Based Accountability™ Guide uses and is based upon concepts and materials developed by Mark Friedman, author of Trying Hard is Not Good Enough (Trafford 2005) and founder and director of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute.
The RBA Guide includes a brief overview of the framework’s most important ideas. You can also use the RBA Guide to lead or facilitate a group in using the framework to improve decision-making. The RBA Guide is ultimately a road map to help you navigate the complete RBA decision-making process, step-by-step.
Sneak Peek Into the Guide:
What is Results-Based Accountability™?
Results-Based Accountability™ (RBA) is a disciplined way of thinking and taking action used by communities to improve the lives of children, families, and the community as a whole. RBA is also used by agencies to improve the performance of their programs.
How Does RBA work?
RBA starts with “ends” and works backward, step-by-step, towards “means.” For communities, ends are the conditions of well-being we want for children, families, adults, or the community. For example, ends could be “residents get and keep good jobs,” “children are ready for school,” or “our neighborhood is clean and safe.” Ends can be even more specific than that, like “our public spaces are graffiti-free” or “our neighbors know each other.” These types of ends are referred to as Results. For programs, ends are how our customers are better off when the program works the way it should. For example, an end for a program could be “% of people in the job training program who get and keep good-paying jobs” or “% of children in our afterschool program with improved reading scores.” These types of ends are referred to as “Performance Measures.”
Why Use RBA?
- Gets from talk to action quickly
- Is a simple, common-sense process that anyone can understand
- Helps groups to surface and challenge assumptions that can be barriers to innovation
- Builds collaboration and consensus
- Uses data and transparency to ensure accountability for both the well-being of children, families, and communities and the performance of programs.
THE RBA “TURN-THE-CURVE” TEMPLATE
This template is an overview of the step-by-step RBA Turn-the-Curve decision-making process…
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