1. Workgroup: Delivering and Accounting for Development Results
DBSA DEVELOPMENT RESULTS Presenter : Landiwe Mahlangu September 2008
Commonwealth Local Government Forum Conference on Access to Development Funding for Local Government in Africa.
Workgroup: Delivering and Accounting for Development Results

2. Outline Why local development indicators matter Role players
DBSA monitoring and Evaluation Framework
M&E indicators and Benchmarks
Results Based Management Approach
Sector Level Indicators
Shifting of Emphasis
Challenges
Integrating delivery and accounting for development results
Expanding tools and approaches

3. Why local development results matter
Economic growth and development is generated in Cities and towns
Poverty at local level is now common
Greater proportion of expenditure and investment occurs at local level
Key MDG’s will be realised at local level e.g. water; sanitation; housing;health
Own revenue sources is limited

4. Role players All levels and spheres of government
Regulatory and statistical bodies
Private Sector e.g. PPP
Development Finance institutions-DBSA
Civil society-third sector

5. DBSA Monitoring &Evaluation Framework
Results – based
Strategic Alignment
Total and Incremental effects
Aggregate and Disaggregate
Verifiable and Attribution

6. M&E Indicators and Benchmarks
MDG
Paris Declaration
Regional (Indicative )Frameworks
Macro-National development Indicators
Sector Specific Indicators
Macro indicators are basically cross-cutting and mission critical indicators for the Bank

7. Results – Based Management Framework
DEVELOPMENT RESULTS CHAIN
IMPACT
OUTPUT
OUTCOME
INPUT
e.g. funds
people trained
Jobs created
Improved lives
Monitoring
Intermediate indicators
Secondary Data Sources
Evaluation
Final indicators
Primary sources of data
Impact is a long-term /delayed effect of project
The relation between impact and outcome is not linear
Outcome is short/medium term effect and represent effectiveness

8. Indicators at Sector Level
Outputs
Outcomes & impacts
Installed capacity
Distribution coverage
Energy mix
Revenue/ surplus
Capacity utilized
Access to energy
Consumption
Avg. cost to customer
Energy
Roads constructed
Roads operated & maintained
Traffic management
Driver education
Vehicle use / density
Journey times
Safety
Transport share of GDP
Transport
Number and value of tourism projects supported
Hotel/lodges and tourism sites financed
Number, value of tourism infrastructure installed
Contribution to National Income
Number of arrivals per annum
Number of jobs created
Tourism
Installed capacity
Distribution coverage
Mix of sources
Functionality of the system
Capacity utilized
Levels of service
Avg. cost to customer
Accessibility of service
Water

9. Shift of Emphasis Future Current Best practice Lessons Learned
Cluster or portfolio evaluation
Development outcome and impact evaluation
Ex-ante assessment (Formative Evaluation)
Joint evaluations
Private sector operations
Quality of reports
Demand led
Current
Lessons Learned
Stand alone project intervention
Process and output evaluation
Ex-post assessment (Summative evaluation)
Individual evaluations
Public sector operations
Quantity of reports
Supply driven

10. How far can R1 Million of Investment go
Services & Connections
AVG. COSTS
Electricity:
Water:
Roads: km (tarred)
Jobs:
R3 100-R3 600
R3 500-R4 500 R

11. Project Effects and Externalities
Macro Level
Sector Level
Project Level

12. Challenges
Aligning of development indicators to that of key stakeholders
Linking development results to Organizational performance
Measuring Private sector operations development impact
Assessing impact of knowledge activities

13. Towards integrated approaches
Make client/portfolio the unit of analysis
Focus planning/origination/programming
Understand business and planning cycles
Time horizon must move from 1 to 3 years
Manage strategy context and not process
Priorities data and info quality.

14. Expand tools and Approaches
Regular customer surveys
Citizens Score cards
Public Expenditure tracking surveys
Multiple deprivation inedxes
Macro economic models

15. Thank you;
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