Benchmarks

The achievement of planned results is at the heart of USAID’s performance management system. In order to understand where we, as project managers, are going, we need to understand where we have been. Establishing quality baselines and setting ambitious, yet achievable, targets are essential for the successful management of foreign assistance programs. ...

An increasing number of rigorous impact evaluations are being conducted, and it is important that the evaluation methods, findings and recommendations are as reliable as possible. At the same time, however, these evaluations can be expensive to conduct....

How do you develop your outcome mapping progress markers? Or what guides you in developing related indicators? Here is a paper - “A Complementary Approach to Developing Progress Markers” – that is based on the analysis of 32 sets of progress markers from 13 different Outcome mapping projects in Africa; Latin America; South and South-East Asia and Canada. ...

This manual attempts to be a practical step-by-step guide to prepare and carryout benchmarking and impact analyses of projects. The audience is policy makers, mainlyin the research or strategic departments of ministries. However, more operationaldepartments may also have an interest in the concepts explained....

This handbook aims to provide basic principles, guidelines and resources that will enable United Nations field presences to measure progress towards or regress away from peace consolidation. It may be seen as a first step towards establishing more formalized benchmarking systems to be used by United Nations field presences, including more specific formats and procedures for benchmarking organization, data collection and aggregation, reporting, and templates of benchmarks and indicators....

This document provides guidance for conceptualizing, writing, selecting and measuring project performance indicators. Offers practical assistance within the larger context of articulating theories of change, conceptualizing and writing objective and results statements, and creating logical and results frameworks. ...

This report presents background information and key content related to the USAID-sponsored workshop on Theories of Change Indicator Development that was held December 14-15, 2009, at George Mason University‘s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) in collaboration with the Academy for Educational Development (AED)....