Designing results frameworks your team will actually use
A results framework should guide decisions, not sit in a drawer. Here's how we design monitoring frameworks that stay useful throughout a programme's life.
Too many results frameworks are built for a proposal and then forgotten. A good framework is a living tool — one that helps teams see whether they are on track and decide what to do next.
Start with the decisions, not the indicators
We begin by asking which decisions the framework needs to inform, and for whom. Indicators then follow from the questions that matter, rather than from a wish to measure everything.
Keep it proportionate
A handful of well-chosen indicators, collected reliably, beats a long list that no one can sustain. We design for the data you can realistically gather, and build simple routines to keep it flowing — so the framework becomes something teams return to in reviews, in reporting, and in the moments a programme needs to adapt.