From Outcome To Output

Outcome The intended or achieved short-

term and medium-term effects of an intervention’s outputs,

usually requiring the collective effort of partners.

Represent changes in development conditions which occur between the completion of outputs and the achievement of impact.

Outcome Versus OutputUNDG Definitions

Output Products &

services resulting from completion of activities of development interventions.

Outcome Changes in development conditions

which are linked to meaningful and measurable UN’s contribution.

Often requiring the collective government-led effort of partners.

Within areas of UN’s comparative strengths in the country

Moderate UN’s control & accountability;

Often narrower than but in line with corresponding government’s outcome

Outcome Versus OutputUNDAF Planning

Output UN’s contribution to removal, by

government or other national partners, of development bottlenecks at the operational level;

Causally linked to corresponding outcome

Often requiring the contribution of several UN agencies;

Significant UN’s control & accountability

Often narrower than corresponding government output

Hierarchy of Results, Partners’ Levels of Control & Accountability

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Moving from Outcome To Output

Criteria for quality outputs Extent of Causal strength with outcome dimensional change/s

Scope (Breadth) to ensure meaningfulness, simplified programme structure and complementary/synergistic joint UN efforts

Four-steps in output design

Determine the Output domain (Output Title) = Bottlenecks Determine Timeframe for output achievement (Between Year 1 and 5)

Identify targeted partner/s in UN’s Sphere of Influence (Boundary partners)

Describe expected capacity/competency changes among targeted partners (related to institutional & Leadership capacities; Knowledge/skills acquisition; tools for innovation & improved effectiveness & Efficiency – including documented intervention models)

Output 1.1.4: Ethic & Integrity.

• By 2017, The National Police Service and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission have adequate technical, functional and financial capacity to design and implement rights based guidelines on ethics and integrity in law enforcement;

Output 1.2.2: Citizens' Engagement & Participation.

• By 2016, Systems and mechanisms to promote citizens' engagement and participation in social and political affairs are developed and operatinalized at national and decentralized levels

Output 1. 3.2. Service delivery Capacity.

• By 2018, National and County governments have the appropriate regulatory framework to enable the implementation of responsive, accessible, participatory, equitable, transparent and accountable service delivery with a focus on vulnerable groups

Examples of Output StatementGovernance

Output 2.1.1. Education Relevance.

• By 2018, MoEST has adequate technical and financial capacity to develop, review and operationalize inclusive and evidence- based ECDE, basic, post basic and higher education policies and strategies that: inculcate relevant skills to respond to the job market demand; nurture constructive values; and promote gender equality and human rights;

Output 2.2.3. RMNCAH:

• By 2018, MoH and selected county governments and partners have adequate institutional and technical capacities, including through S-S cooperation and use of emerging technologies & tools, to design, implement and evaluate county-based models of innovative, quality equitable and integrated maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health services (including sexual and reproductive health).

Examples of Output StatementHuman Capital Development

Output 3.1.2.Equitable Access to Development Opportunities.

• MDAs and the National Gender Equality Commission have adequate technical capacities to operationalize the 2013 enacted matrimonial property Act, which ensures spouses’ equal rights to productive inputs, including land and credits;

Output 3.2.3: Extractive Industry

• The extractive sector is technically strengthened, including through South-South and triangular cooperation, to apply measures that protect the environment, generate employment opportunities, particularly for women, youth and marginalized groups, and invest in community development and social services.

Examples of Output StatementInclusive Sustainable Economic Growth

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