# Results-Based Management and Reporting

> Plan, monitor and report on results, not just activities, using theories of change, indicators and performance information.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Public Sector & Development
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/public-sector-development/results-based-management-and-reporting
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=results-based-management-and-reporting

## Overview

Governments and donors increasingly demand evidence of results. This course teaches results-based management in practice: building results chains and theories of change, setting SMART indicators and targets, collecting reliable performance information and writing reports that show outcomes. It aligns with the DPME framework for annual performance plans and with donor reporting standards.

## Who should attend

- Planners and M&E officers
- Programme and project managers
- Public-sector managers responsible for APPs
- NGO and donor-funded programme staff

## Learning outcomes

- Build results chains and theories of change
- Set SMART indicators, baselines and targets
- Design performance information systems
- Write results-focused reports
- Use results information to improve decisions

## Course outline

### Day 1: Results-based management

- Principles of RBM
- Results chains
- Theory of change
- Logical frameworks

### Day 2: Indicators and targets

- SMART indicators
- Technical indicator descriptions
- Baselines and targets
- Data sources

### Day 3: Performance information

- Data collection and verification
- Audit of performance information
- Information systems
- Data quality

### Day 4: Reporting

- Quarterly and annual reports
- Telling the results story
- Donor reporting
- Visualising results

### Day 5: Using results

- Performance reviews
- Learning and adaptation
- Linking results to budgets
- Action plan