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Results-based Management
and Accountability Frameworks (RMAF)
Why a Session? Results-based Management and Accountability Frameworks (RMAFs) are a requirement found in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments, effective June 2000. As of February 2005, Treasury Board Secretariat has set out a guidance for the development of RMAFs (see http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/eval/pubs/RMAF-CGRR/guide/guide_e.asp). This session is designed to provide a hands-on opportunity for participants to learn and work with the new approach.
Who Should Attend? Anyone setting out to develop an RMAF under the new guidance. While many of the fundamental features of this course will remain the same as for previous RMAF workshops, there will be sufficient new content (see below) to be of interest to previous course attendees.
What Will be Covered? The session will feature step by step coverage of each of the new RMAF requirements including:
Ø Program Profile: – Context – Objectives – Stakeholders and Beneficiaries – Resources
Ø Expected Results: – Expected Results – Logic Model – Accountabilities
Ø Monitoring and Evaluation Plan: – Performance Measurement Plan – Evaluation Plan
Case examples will be used to illustrate some of the new concepts such as the treatment of risk, performance issues, linkages to Management, Resources, and Results Structure-Program Activity Architecture (MRRS-PAA), target setting, and horizontal and strategic RMAFs.
Participants will leave with a practical set of tools and knowledge to be applied to their own RMAF needs.
When? TBA
Where? The PMN Learning Centre, Suite 1101, 151 Slater Street.
Who Will be Presenting / Facilitating? Steve Montague, a partner with PMN, has more than 25 of experience in performance measurement, program evaluation, market research, review and audit projects as a management consultant and as an evaluation manager in a major Federal Government department. Steve has helped to lead the evolution of Results-based Management and Accountability Frameworks (RMAFs) in the Federal Government community. He has helped to develop and implement dozens of RMAFs, including the first ‘umbrella’ RMAF, and the early integration of risk assessment into RMAFs. He has been contracted to educate a wide variety of managers and officers on this subject, including analysts in the Treasury Board Secretariat. Steve has also influenced and helped to successfully implement the new RMAF format. This experience makes him an ideal leader / facilitator for this workshop.
Suzanne Lafortune, a partner with PMN, has more than 25 years of experience in the development and implementation of performance-based management strategies and systems in the federal government. In collaboration with the Treasury Board Secretariat, Suzanne has been instrumental in the development of guidelines for Results-based Management and Accountability Frameworks (RMAFs) and has led the development of dozens of RMAFs as well as a number of RMAF implementation assignments. Her knowledge and experience with performance management and RMAFs have allowed her to design practical performance measurement and reporting systems to support on-going performance measurement and evaluation requirements. She has influenced and helped to successfully implement the new RMAF format. Suzanne’s experience in performance measurement, evaluation and delivery of workshops makes her an ideal leader / facilitator for this workshop.
Seating for this session will be limited. For more information or to register please contact us at www.pmn.net, info@pmn.net or contact Ms. Oma Persaud (613) 236‑2320 ext. 230.
WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS HAVE SAID ABOUT OUR RMAF COURSES Participants have found the sessions to be extremely valuable. Our course ratings consistently exceed service quality (ASQI) index norms, and have been steadily increasing as we have learned to adjust various elements through feedback. Comments from our RMAF sessions include the following:
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