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	Results-Based Management	Participatory Impact Assessment
Field	Development Studies	Development Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2002	2014
Originator	OECD-DAC; United Nations Development Group; aid-effectiveness agenda (Paris Declaration / Accra)	Andy Catley and colleagues, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
Type	Management and evaluation strategy for development results	Participatory project impact assessment method
Seminal source	OECD-DAC (2002). Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. OECD Development Assistance Committee, Paris.	Catley, A., Burns, J., Abebe, D., & Suji, O. (2014). Participatory Impact Assessment: A Design Guide. Somerville, MA: Feinstein International Center, Tufts University.
Aliases	RBM, Managing for Development Results, Managing for Results, Results Framework Approach	PIA, Participatory Impact Evaluation, Community-Based Impact Assessment, Participatory Impact Measurement
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Summary	Results-Based Management (RBM) is a management strategy that orients all the activities, resources, and processes of an organisation or programme toward achieving and demonstrating clearly defined results, rather than merely tracking inputs delivered and activities completed. Codified in the OECD-DAC's 2002 evaluation glossary and adopted across the United Nations, the World Bank, and bilateral agencies, it embeds a results chain, performance indicators, and continuous monitoring into the full project cycle so that evidence on outcomes feeds back into decisions.	Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA) is an approach to measuring the impact of development and humanitarian projects in which the affected communities define the indicators of change and use participatory tools to quantify it. Developed and codified by Andy Catley and colleagues at Tufts University's Feinstein International Center, largely through work on livestock and livelihoods programmes in pastoralist settings, PIA adapts participatory rural appraisal methods to the disciplined logic of impact evaluation — combining locally meaningful indicators with before-and-after and with-and-without comparisons to assess what a project actually changed.