INDEX OF TOOLS
A. Techniques and Exercises
B. Forms and Formats
C. Pictures and Overheads
D. Written Products and Examples
E. Data Resources
A. Techniques and Exercises
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)
6. Sorting Exercise #2: Result: "All Children Ready for School"
7. Sorting Exercise #3: Result: "Clean Environment"
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: The Whole Distance from Results to What Works Including the schematics for both population and performance versions
14. Exercise: Story Analysis for Results-Based Accountability
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
22. Exercise: Turn the Curve Exercise (for programs and agencies) - One Page Participant Instructions
23. Exercise: Story Analysis for Performance Accountability
25. Technique: How to select the most important "headline" performance measures
26. Technique: Performance Accountability in 20 Minutes
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
B. Forms and Formats
1.Answer These Questions - Put It In This Format
2.Plan Formats - A collection of ways to structure results based plans and budgets
2.1 Answer These Questions - Put It In This Format
2.2 Budget format with Volume I (population results) and Volume II (program/agency performanc
2.3 San Mateo County Budget - selected pages
2.4 Hennepin County Budget - selected pages
2.5 A Possible Action Plan Outline
2.6 School Improvement Plan Formats
2.7 Prototype Implementation Plan Format
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. Families and Children Inc. Board of Directors Meeting Agenda
13. Prototype Implementation Plan Format
15. San
Mateo County Outcome-Based Budget Format
C. Pictures and Overheads
2. RBA 101 Powerpoint Presentation with Narrative
3. Management, Budgeting and Strategic Planning as a Single System
4. Placer County California: Child Assessment Form
6.Results-Based Accountability Leads to New Questions (Con Hogan)
8. A Strategy Map for Results Based Budgeting
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"
15.
Trading
Outcome Accountability for Fund Flexibility:
The Deal
16. The Seven Questions Central to Performance Accountability
17 Performance Measurement: A Step by Step Schematic
18 What's in it for Me? An educator's view of why performance accountability might be useful
19. Quantity
and Quality vs. Effort and Effect
20. Link:
4 Quadrants to other performance measurement terminology
21.
The link between client results and population results
22. Separating
the Wheat from the Chaff: Types of Performance Measures found in each Quadrant
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
D. Written Products and Examples
1.The Language of Accountability
3. 11 Things a Legislature could consider to advance Results-Based Accountability
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
10. "Get to the Point Planning"
11. A script for introducing a results-based budget by a department director
13. San Mateo County Outcome-Based Budget Pilot excerpts
14. San Mateo County 2002 - 2003 Performance Budgeting - one of the best examples of performance budgeting.
15. Hennepin County Human Services Group Proposed 2002 Budget, Selected Pages
16. Link
to Hennepin County Results-based budget
E. Data Resources
with Thanks to David Murphey and Bill O'hare
1. The Annie E. Casey Foundation
a. Kids Count: State by state data on child and family well-being: www.aecf.org/kidscount/
b. CLIKS: County-City-Community Data on Kids. Child and Family Well-being at the State and Sub-state levels: This is a terrific resource which shows multi-year data organized under 5 results, and allows the creation of line graph baselines. www.aecf.org/cgi-bin/cliks.cgi
c. Right Start 2003: Data drawn from birth certificates on 8 key indicators in the 50 states and top 50 cities
2. The two most important data reference books on statistics in the USA:
The STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES You can get the latest year plus previous editions and historical data back to colonial times!
The GREEN BOOK of the House Ways & Means Committee: This is the "bible" of many analysts in D.C. and is now available on line! This is the authoritative source for many statistics on TANF, Child Welfare and many other federal/state programs.
3. 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
4. National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information: http://www.childwelfare.gov/
5. Child Trends: Latest national trends on over 70 indicators of child and youth well-being www.childtrendsdatabank.org/
6. U.S. Census Bureau: population, housing, economic and geographic data: www.census.gov
7. National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/
8. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce: Includes economic data, international, national, regional and by industry www.bea.gov/
9. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor: Includes data on employment and unemployment, Inflation, wages, earnings and benefits. http://stats.bls.gov/
10. Center for Disease Control and Prevention: National center for health statistics. www.cdc.gov/nchswww/
11. World Health Organization: www.who.int/whr/en/: Data on health status and health expenditures by country.
12. 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
13. FBI: Uniform crime reports: www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.shtml
14. 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.
15. Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/epahome/resource.shtml
16. DOT National Highway Transportation Safety Administration - State Traffic Safety Information
17. DOT National Highway Transportation Safety Administration - Fatality Analysis Reporting
18. Sites with Exemplary Reporting on Results and Indicators
19. The Urban Institute: www.urban.org
20. Pathways Mapping Initiative - Site Map This is a rich resource for ideas about what works, and it also includes lots of links to data sources for key indicators.
21. National Children's Study A 21 year longitudinal study of the well-being of children in the United States. Research started November, 2004. Go to this site for study status and to sign up for email updates. http://nationalchildrensstudy.gov/
22. Information Center on Disabilities and Gifted Education: http://ericec.org/faq/statistc.shtmll
