This toolkit provides insights and recommendations on how to design, monitor and use results frameworks for greater impact on sustainable development. It gives an overview of the different types of results frameworks that exist, explains how to enhance their design, monitoring and usage, and provides advice on how to integrate complex issues such as sustainable development, climate adaptation, locally led development and inclusion. By using this toolkit as a common reference, all governments and international development partners are better equipped for strategic, harmonised action towards a more sustainable future.
Effective Results Frameworks for Sustainable Development
Achieving Impact by Design
Abstract
Executive Summary
This OECD toolkit provides practical guidance to governments, development agencies, ministries and implementers of all sizes on designing and using results frameworks to maximise the effectiveness of international co-operation efforts towards sustainable development.
To that end, it recalls foundational concepts of results frameworks and proposes concrete approaches for integrating sustainable development principles, as well as for designing those frameworks at various levels – from overarching national/corporate strategies to individual projects. It provides detailed guidance on strengthening monitoring systems –including by using country systems and digital technologies– and on using results information effectively for learning, decision-making, accountability and communication.
Recognising emerging priorities and challenges in development practice, the toolkit also addresses hard-to-measure, cross-cutting issues such as Leave No One Behind principles, climate adaptation and resilience, capacity-development initiatives, and locally led development approaches. Dedicated sections focus on capturing these complex, multi-dimensional outcomes in results frameworks and measurement practices.
This toolkit aims to help co-operation practitioners maximise the value of every development effort. By applying the shared principles and strategies it proposes, development actors can transform challenges into opportunities, translate data into smart decisions, navigate rapid change and unexpected impacts, and convert intentions into lasting impact.
