11 Results-based management
Daniele Alesani
11.1 Results-based management in international development
In a broad sense, results-based management (RBM) has been in existence for several decades as a management practice in business and in public administration. Peter Drucker’s concept of management by objectives, in the 1960s and 1970s, popularized the concept of thinking through logically what an organization is trying to achieve and how to measure its performance.
RBM developed as a distinctive practice in the 1990s as part of the new public management (NPM) reform agenda. Several bilateral agencies, international institutions (IIs), and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have since adopted ...
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