DFID’s Assessment of Multilateral Organisational Effectiveness: An Overview of Results

During 2003-04, DFID established a Multilateral Effectiveness Framework (MEFF) for assessing and monitoring the organisational effectiveness of international organisations that it funds centrally. It was implemented by DFID staff. Twenty-three organisations were assessed.1
 

The MEFF focuses on organisational effectiveness, using a results-based-management (RBM) approach. It looks at the results-orientation of eight corporate systems, in relation to three perspectives (internal performance, the focus on country level results and partnership).
 

The key methodological instruments are a checklist and a scorecard that uses a simple traffic lights system to score an agency’s effectiveness in each area. The results are summarised in a summary report.