YIWC workshop
Outcomes and Outputs
Workshop session
• What are outcomes and outputs?
• Using a logical framework
• Linking outputs and outcomes to broader aims
and objectives
• Results based accountability (RBA)
• Example exercises
Outcomes and Outputs
•Resources
•e.g. cost, time,
people
Inputs
Outputs
•Process
•e.g. provision,
participants
•Gross benefits
•e.g. skill, job,
qualification
Outcomes
Logical Framework
• What are the overall aims and objectives?
• What activities support the achievement of
these objectives?
• What would successful outputs and
outcomes look like?
• How can we record these successes?
Results Based Accountability
(RBA)
•
A way of embedding outcome based
decision making into planning, delivery and
accountability for partnerships and projects.
• Implies that expected results / goals /
outcomes are clearly articulated, and that
data are regularly collected and reported to
assess whether results have been achieved.
Two Types of Accountability
Population Accountability – collective or
collaborative responsibility for the well being
of populations (e.g. young people in Wales)
Performance Accountability – the
responsibility of a project or service for
specific results for its clients (e.g. CLIC
editorial group members)
Performance Measures
Quantity
Effort
or
Quality
How much
did we do?
How well did
we do it?
#
%
or
Effect
Is anyone better off as
a result?
%
#
Performance Measures
Substance Misuse Service
How much did we do?
# young people seen
# 1-to-1 sessions
# of staff trained
How well did we do it?
% staff with higher
qualification
% 1st appointments within
2 weeks of referral
Is anyone better off as a result?
% young people using service who are off
drugs at end of 12 week intervention
% young people using the service who are
off drugs 6 weeks after end of intervention
How can identifying and recording outcomes
help you ?
1. Planning & performance management;
2. Organise and present programmes and initiatives;
3. Organise and explain how population and performance
levels fit together
4. Make sense of partnerships and plans – what matters is
results not processes!
5. Demonstrate the successes achieved!
Exercise 1
• Working in small groups identify the broad objectives
that you are aiming at through your work with young
people.
– What will be successful outputs and outcomes that
will ensure that these are objectives are met?
– List outputs and outcomes separately
– Distinguish between population and performance
Exercise 2
• Working in small groups consider the activities and
actions that will deliver the outputs and outcomes
identified to answer the following:
– What indicators will enable us to recognise / record
the outputs and outcomes identified?
– What data / information doe we need to record these?
– How can we capture or record this data / information?