Attachment_21-DCED_Standard_for_Measuring_Results_in_Private_Sector_Development-one-pager.pdf

DCED Standard for Measuring Results in Private Sector Development

Activities

Service

Market Outputs

Service Market

Outcomes

Impact at Enterprise

Level

Impact at Poverty Level

A private company interested to provide training on how to identify diseases, use medicine and vaccine

Decrease in mortality

Company assisted in developing the training module and vet identification

Vets receive training on better use of medicines and vaccines

Swine producers start using proper medicines and applying effective disease control measures Other swine producers are influenced to use proper medicines and apply effective disease

Swine producers learn about effective disease control

Vets are more knowledgble on using medicines and vaccines more efficiently

Other vets seek training on better use of medicine and vaccines

Reduced days of pig production cycle Decrease in mortality

Reduced days of pig production cycle

Increase in profit Increase in profit

More employment More Income

Example of a Results Chain: Technical Skills Development of Vets

With thanks to the USAID Cambodia MSME Project

Every development agency finds growing pressure to report the results that it is achieving. A greater emphasis on logframes and baseline surveys is not helping managers to measure their achievements, particularly where programmes are aiming to have market-wide impacts. As a result, the achievements of the best agencies and programmes are often going unrecognised.

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) therefore proposes a Standard, which programmes can use to measure their own results. This turns results measurement from an event into a process; credibility is assured through external certification of the measurement process used by the programme – instead of asking a consultant to duplicate that process.

The Standard has been generated and refined since 2008 in collaboration with PSD programmes in the field. It includes all of the elements needed for credibility (see Box below for list); these elements are now accepted as 'good practice', but few programmes have yet achieved them all.

The first step in the Standard calls for managers to articulate the results chain: the logic of their work, already implicit but rarely illustrated in a clear form (see example of the format, above).

This format enables managers to be explicit about the assumptions on which their work is based – including for example sequencing and parallel logics – and provides the framework for validating them in a systematic way. Indeed, those implementing the Standard report greatly increased effectiveness and focus; it also provides a framework within which to measure and attribute impacts – where that is feasible.

The ultimate vision is that programmes and organisations complying with the Standard will be widely accepted as being committed to effectiveness and excellence. Many DCED member agencies, INGOs, field programmes and consultants are actively exploring the potential for the Standard, and additional participants are very welcome – particularly among partner Governments.

What are the Benefits?

The DCED results measurement initiative offers the following benefits to programmes:

the opportunity to think through the logic or results chains, leading to greater clarity around priorities a management tool to orient all staff efforts around those priorities, and to encourage understanding of how their work contributes to the ultimate goals the means to generate approximate numbers for impact (where appropriate) that have credibility; also the means to capture wider market change interaction with other programmes, for exchange and learning in key skills areas required for results measurement recognition in the field, as being seriously engaged in the results measurement agenda time-saving, through not having to ‘reinvent the wheel’ for results measurement processes

For more information

Contact Admin@Enterprise-Development.org or visit www.Enterprise-Development.org/page/measuring-and-reporting-results

12th September 2012

The DCED Standard ‘At a Glance’

1. Articulating the Results Chain

2. Defining indicators of change

3. Measuring changes in indicators

4. Estimating attributable changes

5. Capturing wider changes in the system or market

6. Tracking programme costs

7. Reporting results

8. Managing the system for results measurement

Example of a Results Chain:

Commercial training for Vets mailto:Admin@Enterprise-Development.org http://www.enterprise-development.org/page/measuring-and-reporting-results http://www.enterprise-development.org/page/measuring-and-reporting-results