TDR performance assessment framework: revision - 2012-2017

Overview

Between 2009 and 2012, both TDR’s Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) and the related TDR Results Reports published annually have been increasingly used by TDR contributors and partners. In 2012, TDR’s Joint Coordinating Board (JCB) encouraged TDR core contributors to “harmonize their reporting requirements and accept TDR’s reporting through the JCB”, highlighting the importance of a well-designed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework adapted to the Programme’s new strategy.

TDR’s Interim External Review in 2011 used TDR’s PAF to evaluate progress and strategy implementation; the report recommended, among other things, that TDR teams make more use of the Framework in their planning process.

At JCB(35) in June 2012, when approving the new TDR strategy, the JCB made specific recommendations: “The Performance Assessment Framework needs to be updated, adjusting expected results and targets to the outcomes of the new strategy and workplan, ensuring measures for outcomes of publications, training courses and networks are included.”

Three key issues are specifically addressed in the 2012–2017 revision of TDR’s Performance Assessment Framework:

• Improving the set of indicators and adapting them to the new strategy.
• More clearly quantifying and expressing value for money.
• Aligning the monitoring and reporting aspects at activity, team and Programme levels with the revamped management review system in TDR.

Overall, the 2012–2017 revision of TDR’s Performance Assessment Framework provides the tools to measure the Programme’s contribution towards translating innovation to health impact in disease endemic countries to the benefit of those burdened by infectious diseases of poverty.