This toolkit was developed under the responsibility of Pilar Garrido, OECD Director for Development Co-operation. Rahul Malhotra, former Head of the Reforms and Partnerships for Development Impact Division, provided strategic guidance and oversight. Alejandro Guerrero and Chantal Verger led the extensive comparative research, technical discussions and analysis supporting the toolkit’s evidence base. Sonja Agustsdottir, Piper Hart, Ana Cobano Cuesta and Olivia Lalonde actively contributed to conceptualising, drafting and finalising the document. Other analysts and experts that, over the years, contributed to the background analysis or peer-reviewed specific chapters include Laura Angresius, Michael Bally, Joëlline Bénéfice, Jos Brand, Juan Casado, Takayoshi Kato, Paige Kirby, Kadambote Sachin, Julia Schnatz, Maurya West Meiers, Jacqueline Wood and Rosie Zwart. Special thanks go to Ola Kasneci and Karena Garnier for their editorial review.
This toolkit is a collective feat, bringing together the invaluable contributions and partnership of hundreds of stakeholders over five years. The authors are deeply grateful to the OECD/DAC Results Community, whose members intensely discussed the challenges, experiments, innovations and alternatives they have explored in recent years to make their development ministries and agencies more impactful. The authors tried to condense those collective learnings in this practical toolkit. They are also thankful to the governments of Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Peru, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda for hosting and supporting the underlying studies and inclusive dialogues on effective results frameworks and practices for sustainable development. The work with those governments, their development partners and domestic stakeholders provided the bulk of practical insights on how to make things work in complex situations.
The authoring team would also like to thank Australia, the European Commission, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for their role as peer learners during the country case studies and dialogues, and give special thanks to the European Union’s delegations for their active support during the inclusive dialogues at country level. Finally, this research would not have been possible without the engagement, candour and generosity of many senior officials and technical staff from the eleven governments mentioned above and more than 65 bilateral and multilateral development partners who participated in in-depth interviews, surveys, data-sharing, focus group discussions and validation workshops.
This guidance toolkit was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.