Rapid Results Approach

It takes good leadership to achieve lasting results in the drive to reduce poverty and improve lives – and it takes a good results coach to help them build leadership capacity to manage the process of change for results and to overcome implementation challenges. Since 2005, the results coach network, supported by a WBI team have been engaged in Rapid Results Initiatives to help leaders across the world improve capacity for diagnosing institutional constraints, improving project/program management, increasing the results-focused of their work, facilitating multi-stakeholder engagement, and jump-starting implementation of problem projects. Building on these successes, this Community of Practice hopes to connect results coaches to each other and to all those with interests in results-based management to exchange and tackle bottlenecks and problem areas in order to enhance the quality of our work.

The WBI Rapid Results Program is part of a larger program on Facilitating Change and Engagement for Results – Addressing the Implementation Challenge (FACE), which addresses the “how” of managing the reform and change process and achieving results. FACE offers participants a series of strategic and practical approaches/tools to addressing context-specific challenges, including:

• Introductory Framework on Adaptive Challenges and Creation of Space for Change
• Operational Level Political Economy Analysis
• Strategic Communication
• Rapid Results Approach

The WBI Rapid Results Program is managed by Ms. Karen Sirker and supported by our in-residence RRA expert Mr. Benjamina Randrianarivelo. For further information and support on Rapid Results, please contact Linh Le or Benjamina Randrianarivelo.

List of Coaches

Coaches throughout Africa are trained to conduct Rapid Results Initiatives. Please see below a list of coaches and click here to read their detailed profiles:

• Rose Fidelite Ndayishimiye
• Seleus Nezerwe
• Fides Sinankwa
• Cyprien Mbonigaba
• John Henry Juma
• George Khasiani
• Tom Mogeni
• Sylvester Obong'o
• Jacqueline Mutimba Otwori
• Elizabeth Kibaki-Obiero
• Hasinatiana A. Rakotozafiarisoa
• Susanne Mukakibibi Balera
• Raj Chawla
• Christiane Frischmuth
• Benjamina Randrianarivelo
• Noah Taruberekera

• A New Network for Change Leadership, by Robert Agon, June 19, 2009
• Results for Kenyan, summarized by Linh Le, September 28, 2009
• RRA and Local Governance in Sierra Leone, summarized by Linh Le, September 28, 2009
• RRA Support to Health Reform in Yemen, summarized by Linh Le, September 28, 2009
• The Rapid Results Method in Burundi, by Cyprien Mbonigaba, May 25, 2010 (first published in French here)
• A Curriculum Coming to Life!, by Linh Le, July 1, 2010
• Strengthening Capacities in Leadership in Burundi, by Cyprien Mbonigaba, August 27, 2010 (in French)