(a) Focusing on the use of multi year financing frameworks and their link with results based management.

Definition of results based management and results based budgeting

Results based management

Results based budgeting

Results based budgeting

(b) Results based management

B. Results based management

B. Results based management

(f) Results based budgeting

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55 231 Results based budgeting

In addition, cross cutting strategies of results based management, knowledge management and evaluation address management roles and results based targets for these functions.

(i) A Results Based Management Board has been established to provide overall leadership for UNHCR in its efforts to institutionalize results based management.

Regular training on results based budgeting would continue.

OIOS developed an approach to self assessment, based on the concepts of results based budgeting.

It also welcomed the move towards results based budgeting.

Election results are based on the principle of proportionality.

Implementation of results based management in the International Labour Organization

Results based budgeting and management reform needed to be implemented.

Given this definition of RBM, results based budgeting constitutes the basis for aligning resources to results in this framework.

Evaluation of the implementation of results based budgeting in peacekeeping operations

Based on the results of the ICRIN study, in 2004 UNDP Ukraine launched a community based information campaign.

28B.5 During the biennium 2006 2007, the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts will focus on further refining results based budgeting and results based management, including improvements in budget presentation.

96. Welcomes the introduction of results based budgeting at the subprogramme level

Strengthened central monitoring and evaluation facility and improved results based management systems

The report also included results based frameworks within the Mission's overall objective.

Other delegations favoured a results or evidence based methodology to determine programme priorities, instead of a human rights based approach.

Asked why the 2004 financial report reflected provisional results only, the Director a.i. replied that the results were based on provisional Revenue and Expenditure Reports (RERs) of National Committees and that next year's financial report would include adjusted 2004 results based on the final RERs.

Results based approach In response to trends across the United Nations generally, and to the advice of OIOS in particular, the secretariat has sharpened and formalized its results based approach in the current budget.

By 2008, UNDP plans to integrate results based management and results based budgeting by effectively linking the biennial support budget (administrative resources) and substantive programme activities, as presented in the multi year funding framework.

By strengthening those critical elements, the results based planning cycle will be enhanced.

UNFPA has prepared an operational plan for its transition to results based budgeting.

The Section also acts as the Secretariat to the Results Based Management Board.

Being the first biennial budget based on the concept of results based management, the Programme will continue to guide and collaborate with other programmes to strengthen and refine the concept and implementation, including measurement towards an improved application of the principles of results based management.

Adjustment of processes procedures practices (e.g. results based management budgeting, work process re engineering) ___________

(ii) Workshops and briefings on results based budgeting, including briefings for Member States (4)

What results UNDP has achieved have been based on convergence among the following elements

The Organization must perfect the art of results based budgeting as quickly as possible.

Moreover, at a time when performance based government is increasingly the norm, managing for results systems are becoming critical links between resources and results.

In the second half of 2004, a study on progress to date in UNHCR's efforts to introduce results based management (RBM) laid foundations for the development of a more comprehensive results based approach to managing UNHCR's operations.

In paragraph 260, the Board of Auditors encouraged UNFPA to continue with its development of results based management and results based budgeting in coordination with other organizations in order to benefit from best practices and lessons learned.

Its purpose is to assess the status of implementation of results based management in the ILO and present a set of conclusions and recommendations to the Governing Body with a view to assisting it in setting the future direction for the results based management approach and aligning results based management with best practices within and outside the United Nations system.

12 The use of a results based management approach is found also in other funding mechanisms, for example in the IFAD negotiated replenishment process, which is based on a consultation with Member States on the basis of a discussion of results and impact of the Fund's activities, supported by an intensive use of results based management and the evidence of evaluation studies.

UNFPA is engaged in discussions to build a prototype based on initial requirements identified for results based budgeting, with a phased implementation approach.

In paragraph 260 of its report, the Board encouraged UNFPA to continue with its development of results based management and results based budgeting in coordination with other organizations in order to benefit from best practices and lessons learned.