Pay-for-Results: Better Development Outcomes through Stronger Performance Management

USAID is transforming its processes to increase flexibility, innovation and accountability from design to implementation. The Pay-for-Results (PFR) model is becoming increasingly important as an important tool within development. It can provide partners with more flexibility as to how to accomplish development outcomes, but it also demands greater accountability, with payment made on the accomplishment of development objectives (outcomes) rather than best efforts to achieve them (inputs). Marketlinks will host an interactive webinar on Thursday, August 8th, featuring the authors of a new guidance document, "Setting, Pricing, and Administering Performance Metrics in Pay- for-Results Programming", which was co-authored by USAID and Third Sector Capital Partners. Together, they will discuss the Pay-for-Results model and outline the six essential steps that project designers should consider to establish the right set of performance metrics to drive improved performance management when designing PFR programming.