• Techniques and Exercises
• Forms and Formats
• Pictures and Overheads
• Written Products and Examples
• Data Resources

1. Technique: The Language of Accountability and How to diagnose language usage
2. Decisiones y Presupuestos Basados en Resultados y Rendimientos: Materiales de Trabajo Material de responsabilidad con los Resultados, Libro de trabajo 101. Traducido por Patricia Zuluagar. (Complete translation, by Patricia Zuluagar, of current Results-Based Accountability 101 Workbook.
3. Technique: A Tool for Choosing a Common Language and When Language goes Astray
4. Technique: The Leaking Roof (A Teaching Example from Everyday Experience)
5. Sorting Exercise #1: Indicator: Rate of Teen Pregnancy – Help groups put the pieces in the right place within the results and performance framework – developed in collaboration with Lynn DeLapp
6. Sorting Exercise #2: Result: “All Children Ready for School”
7. Sorting Exercise #3: Result: “Clean Environment
8. Training for Trainers and Coaches: Teaching and Coaching Construction Kit, Results-Based Accountability Competencies and more:
9. Exercise to Design a Legislative Results Hearing 
10. Exercise to Design a Legislative Performance Hearing
11. Exercise: Turn the Curve Exercise (for populations) – Exercise Design
12. Exercise: Turn the Curve Exercise (for populations) – One Page Participant Instructions
13. Exercise: Whole Distance Exercise – from results to what works including Instructions and Population and Performance Schematics
14. Exercise: Story Analysis for Results-Based Accountability
15. Technique: Help a group see how population accountability is beyond any one agency and beyond government itself
16. Technique:  Generating a Results List from scratch
17. Technique:  Brainstorming a list of experiences for a result
18. Technique: Creating Baselines from Group Knowledge and Consensus
19. Technique: Creating a forecast for an indicator baseline
20. Technique: Choosing the most powerful what works ideas (By assessing your What Works ideas against 4 criteria)
21. Technique: A Simple Financing Self Assessment – Questions to Answer about Financing an Agenda to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
22. Exercise: Turn the Curve Exercise (for programs and agencies) – One Page Participant Instructions
23. Exercise: Story Analysis for Performance Accountability
24. Technique: A five step process that helps people identify performance measures, select the most important ones, and create a data development agenda
25. Technique: How to select the most important “headline” performance measures
26. Technique: Performance Accountability in 20 Minutes
27. Technique: Measuring the alignment of two populations: This is an innovative method for calculating the degree of alignment (scored from 0 to 100) on any population characteristic so that it may be tracked as an indicator or performance measure.
28. RBA Self Assessment Questions Version 3 NEW This is a draft of questions that organizations can ask themselves to assess progress on implementing RBA

1. Answer These Questions – Put It In This Format
2. Plan Formats – A collection of ways to structure results based plans and budgets
   • Answer These Questions – Put It In This Format
   • Budget format with Volume I (population results) and Volume II (program/agency performanc
   • San Mateo County Budget – selected pages
   • Hennepin County Budget – selected pages
   • A Possible Action Plan Outline
   • School Improvement Plan Formats
   • Prototype Implementation Plan Format
   • Wyoming Strategic Planning formats
   • Foundation Investment Summary outline
3. Approach to Unified Planning for Schools and School Districts
4. What’s Next: A Basic Action Plan to pursue Results-Based Accountability
5. Crosswalk to other frameworks – blank form
6. Crosswalk to Logic Model frameworks (including United Way)
7. Indicator Selection Worksheet
8. Indicator Selection Criteria
9. What Works Criteria Worksheet
10. Action Plan for Improving Results – Possible Outline
11. Results and Performance Budgeting Formats – Volume I and II
12. Prototype Implementation Plan Format
13. Progress Report Prototype
14. San Mateo County Outcome-Based Budget Format

1. The Entire Results-Based Accountability 101 Workbook – Available for printing as an Adobe Acrobat file
2. RBA 101 Powerpoint Presentation with Narrative
3. Management, Budgeting and Strategic Planning as a Single System
4. Placer County California: Child Assessment Form
5. Anywhere leads to Everywhere: Con Hogan’s chart that helps people understand the interconnected nature of results.
6. Results-Based Accountability Leads to New Questions (Con Hogan)
7. Choosing a Common Language
8. A Strategy Map for Results Based Budgeting
9. Talk to Action Schematic
10. Advanced view of the relationship between Performance Measures and Indicators
11. Identifying Populations and Subpopulations
12. Summary: The Difference between the Role of Indicators and the Role of Performance Measures
13. Experience list for “children healthy and ready for school”
14. Approaches to Budget Cuts
15. Trading Outcome Accountability for Fund Flexibility:
16. The Deal
17. The Seven Questions Central to Performance Accountability
18. Performance Measurement: A Step by Step Schematic
19. What’s in it for Me? An educator’s view of why performance accountability might be useful
20. Quantity and Quality vs. Effort and Effect
21. Link: 4 Quadrants to other performance measurement terminology
22. The link between client results and population results
23. Administrative Unit Performance Measures
24. Performance Measure Examples for Programs and Services
25. A Funders Role in Results-Based Accountability
26. Characteristics of Good Performance Measurement Systems

1. The Language of Accountability
2. Partners Profiles: First person reasons to invest in children and families from the perspective of 16 potential partners
3. 11 Things a Legislature could consider to advance Results-Based Accountability
4. Getting to Results, Building a Prototype for Results-Based Accountability in Maryland, Excerpt from Maryland 2001 Kids Count Factbook, by Phil Lee, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs
5. The Matter of Alignment
6. Results-Based Accountability One Pager: What is it? Why do it? – 5 minute version
7. Link to Report Card Websites and other Sites with Exemplary Reporting on Results and Indicators
8. The Cost of Bad Results What is it?; Why do it?; How to do it?; What do we do with it once it’s done?
9. “Get to the Point Planning”
10. A script for introducing a results-based budget by a department director
11. Performance Measure examples  forChild Welfare, Welfare to Work, Education, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Corrections, Economic Development and more
12. San Mateo County Outcome-Based Budget Pilot excerpts
13. San Mateo County 2002 – 2003 Performance Budgeting – one of the best examples of performance budgeting.
14. Hennepin County Human Services Group Proposed 2002 Budget, Selected Pages
15. Link to Hennepin County Results-based budget

1. The Annie E. Casey Foundation
2. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics:Includes: “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” international comparisons and links to federal and state statistics. www.childstats.gov
3. National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information:  http://www.childwelfare.gov/
4. Child Trends: Latest national trends on over 70 indicators of child and youth well-being  www.childtrendsdatabank.org/
5. U.S. Census Bureau: population, housing, economic and geographic data: www.census.gov
6. National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/
7. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce: Includes economic data, international, national, regional and by industry  www.bea.gov/
8. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor: Includes data on employment and unemployment, Inflation, wages, earnings and benefits. http://stats.bls.gov/
9. World Health Organization: www.who.int/whr/en/: Data on health status and health expenditures by country
10. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice: Includes data on crime & victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement and corrections.www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs
11. Environmental Defense (formerly the Environmental Defense Fund) It is extremely difficult to find any summary environmental data on the EPA website. These websites are great resources until EPA comes around.
    • www.scorecard.org
    • http://www.environmentaldefense.org
12. DOT National Highway Transportation Safety Administration – Fatality Analysis Reporting
13. Sites with Exemplary Reporting on Results and Indicators
14. The Urban Institute: www.urban.org

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