Your search
Results 5 resources
-
- The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s standard economy, efficiency, effectiveness/cost-effectiveness and equity (4E) framework is still relevant for approaching, measuring and managing value for money (VfM) for adaptive programmes. • However, this framework needs to be reframed to capture and incentivise flexibility, learning and adaptation. • VfM appraisal and reporting should be done in a way that draws on beneficiary feedback and informs good...
-
- This short paper draws out lessons for working effectively with and through partners, based on the experience of the Institutions for Inclusive Development (I4ID) programme – an adaptive, politically smart governance programme in Tanzania. • Cultivating effective partnerships can be a key part of delivering locally legitimate projects that have the potential to create sustainable change. Adaptive and politically informed ways of working create specific opportunities and challenges for...
-
ICAI published this review on DFID’s approach to value for money in February 2018, and as value for money is both a process and an outcome and cuts across all aspects of DFID’s operations, did not score this review. We made five recommendations and published a follow-up to this review in July 2019. All UK government departments are required to achieve value for money in their use of public funds. In recent years, DFID has been working to build value for money considerations further into its...
-
SAVI has established its own framework for assessing Value for Money in annual performance – in relation to expenditure, economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity. Routine tracking and analysis of expenditure and economy ensure that inputs are supplied and services delivered to partners in line with SAVI’s core values, whilst also meeting DFID requirements and competing...
-
Demonstrating results has been a concern in international development cooperation ever since it was started and in recent years there has been an increased focus on achieving and reporting on “results”. Despite the fact that everyone involved in development cooperation wants to make a difference there has been a growing criticism from practitioners about the “results agenda” based on a concern that the approaches used are not fit for purpose. In the EBA-report, Cathy Shutt, at the...
Explore
Theme
- Adaptive Approaches [+]
- MEL4 Adaptive Management
- Cases (2)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(1)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (1)
-
Geography
(3)
-
Africa
(3)
-
Eastern Africa
(2)
- Malawi (1)
- Mozambique (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Zambia (1)
-
Southern Africa
(1)
- South Africa (1)
-
West Africa
(2)
- Nigeria (2)
-
Eastern Africa
(2)
-
Asia
(1)
-
Southern Asia
(1)
- Nepal (1)
-
Southern Asia
(1)
-
Africa
(3)
- Sectors [+] (2)
Resource type
- Report (5)