The purpose of UNICEF’s results-based model
In UNICEF, results-based management supports multiple actors in working together to create meaningful change in children’s lives. It means planning and tracking the achievement of actual results to support more effective programming, more efficient resource use, greater accountability and more compelling reporting. It requires planning for, achieving and demonstrating not just that activities have been completed, but that results have been realized for people on the ground. As such, it is applicable throughout the whole programming cycle and in all UNICEF offices, programmes and teams.
The assumptions or hypotheses about what inputs, activities, outputs and outcomes are both necessary and sufficient to create the desired results for children are our theories of change. We examine the coherence and logic of our theories. Then, as we implement what we have planned, we monitor, make adjustments and evaluate to determine if our intervention is making the hoped-for difference.
Level 1 Result areas are agreed upon UNICEF and Governments, and signed off by the Executive Board every 5 years. UNICEF’s annual allotment of funds is done responding to those areas. Level 2 The result areas are broken down into specific fields of improvement that will help Country Offices plan and track specific actions better. Areas of improvement generally involve a diversity of actors. For example, improving education results among girls depends on coordinated efforts from UNICEF, Governments, Schools and Families. Level 3 Specific actions to address the different areas of improvement are put in place by UNICEF. Typically, various actions (Outputs) are needed to make a difference in an area of improvement (Outcome). Level 4 The specific actions are finally executed through a number of key interventions, tasks or projects that Country Offices organize on-the-ground.Country Programme. Priority result areas per country
Outcomes. Major areas of improvement
Outputs. Unicef's specific actions
Activities. Key interventions to execute the actions.
The result-based model works in 4 levels: Country Programme, Outcomes, Outputs and Activities. While at a Country Programme level, shareholders fix the amount of funds that must be destined to each specific results areas (for example, to improve water sanitation), there is flexibility to allocate the funds in the Outcomes, Outputs and, Activities that will achieve the major objectives more effectively.
Results structure
Budget structure
Work Breakdown Structure
Why
Country Programme
Changes in the conditions of children
WBS Level 1
What
Outcome
Changes in the performance of individuals/institutions
WBS Level 2
Output
Changes in capacities of individuals/institutions
Allocations
WBS Level 3
How
Activities
What we do
Expenses
WBS Level 4
UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeal helps support our work as it provides conflict- and disaster-affected children with access to water, sanitation, nutrition, education, health and protection services. UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeal helps support our work as it provides conflict- and disaster-affected children with access to water, sanitation, nutrition, education, health and protection services. In 2024, UNICEF's HAC appeal total requirement is US$9.3 billion to assist more than one hundred and forty-seven million vulnerable children and their families and caregivers around the world.
