Results Frameworks

Somalia Joint Needs Assessment

November 2005

Overview

Motivation and objectives Background Purpose and objectives Benefits

Getting started Contents Operational principles

Keys to success Next steps

Motivation and Objectives- Background

Problems in early reconstruction planning Lack of prioritization Unrealistic expectations (population,

donors) Capacity limitations and institutional gaps Loss of momentum

Results Matrix

Motivation and Objectives: - Benefits

Place key actions, outputs, results for political, security, economic and social spheres on a simple calendar frame

Help clarify expectations (donors, leadership, population) by increasing realism on timing and forcing prioritization

Identify periods of overload and sectoral linkages Identify actions which are lagging behind (e.g. major

infrastructure before the rainy season, voter registration before elections) or ahead of schedule

Motivation and Objectives: - Variety of Purposes

National planning exercise Budget formulation process Consensus-building process

National ↔ National National ↔ Donor Donor ↔ Donor

Identify capacity-building needs Resource mobilization strategy Monitoring and evaluation

Motivation and Objectives: - Uses

Cabinet meetings

Government/donor meetings

Sectoral coordination meetings

Government/civil society meetings

Etc…

Getting Started:- Content

Outcomes

For example, safe passage/no incidents of violence on major roads X-X; school enrolment > X%; malaria death rate < X%, access to potable water > X%.

Outputs

Physical: # of schools or clinics rehabilitated, km of road constructed or rehabilitated

Services: # of children or animals vaccinated; # of ex-combatants demobilised, % caseload refugees returned; legal cases processed within X days; wait time at port or for business registration

Events: election completed; a reform completed

Budget expenditure or revenue collection % of plan

Getting Started:- Content (Cont’d)

Intermediate actions

Legislation

Major contracts such as trunk roads

Major data collection exercises such as voter registration or household surveys

Capacity and institutional needs

Donor actions

Funds transfer

Major technical assistance and capacity-building initiatives

Major bilateral or multilateral-executed projects

Getting Started:- Step-by-step Manual

Identify major results first (e.g. school enrolment) and work backwards (e.g. school rehabilitation, textbook distribution, teacher training, contracts for school rehabilitation, recruitment of teachers, school mapping)

Include time for: Decision-making (cabinet, parliament, donors, other) Design and contracting investigation of policy options, consultation on policy, and

implementation, for legislation Some results need a household survey or complex

administration to measure: may only be specified when capacity will be available

Keep it simple!

Result Matrix - Sample

Key to Success

Comprehensive and inclusive – i.e. service delivery, capacity building needs, implementation constraints

Simple – focus on prioritization

Link to national priorities

Focus on indicators that are monitorable

Issues to Keep in Mind…

Coverage of political and security issues are not necessarily explicitly linked to one or more clusters, but preconditions for moving the work forward

Selectivity is vital – prioritizing means that by definition all priorities cannot be included

Simplicity is vital, too – keep in mind the need for consultations, and plan for it as you develop the draft matrix

But, comprehensiveness key to success