Learning from RBF

Implementation

Rifat Hasan | Health Specialist

Ronald Mutasa | Operations Officer

Overview of session

• Why do we need to “learn from RBF”?

• Pulling it all together: the conceptual

framework

• Zimbabwe experience

Why do we

need to learn

about RBF?

Learning Objective

• If we want to

– Inform design of new RBF programs

– Improve design of existing programs

– Sustain policy dialogue with solid evidence

• …then we need to

– measure & understand the impact of RBF programs

– understand why/how RBF works/doesn’t work

• How?

– Impact evaluation to measure impact

– Other methods to unpack the why/how

– Quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods

Many opportunities to learn

Concept

Design

Start-up

Implement

Implement

Implement

Implement

Theory

Documentation

Monitoring, implementation case studies, topical analyses

IE Baseline

IE Follow-up

Experience

Exploratory study

Impact Evaluation

Learning from implementation Comprehensive learning agenda

A broad approach to learn from RBF

implementation

• Holistic conceptual framework which highlights:

the intermediate outcomes necessary to achieve

results

the utility of a multidisciplinary lens

the need for broad methodological approaches

Conceptual

framework

A conceptual framework for PBF

What organizational and behavioral changes do you expect

PBF to bring about?

Learning from RBF

Implementation:

Zimbabwe’s

Experience