Results Based Management: An Overview of its Applications in the Public Sector

Results-based Management (RBM), began vigorous applications within the public sector with the introduction of public sector reforms undertaken by the UK, New Zealand, and Australia in the 1980s. Since then it is increasingly being adopted by developing countries.

RBM is based on two fundamental concepts:

• clarity of results, expressed in terms of monitorable outputs, outcomes, and impacts
• clarity of accountability for the delivery of these outputs, outcomes, and impacts.

The translation of these principles into the public sector's budgetary and management processes has potentially wide ranging implications, and can substantially improve public sector functioning and delivery of results to the people.

The positive experiences of OECD countries using RBM concepts provide an encouraging basis for developing countries to learn from and apply in their own public sector environments.

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