Results management and accountability of Austria's development co-operation

Austria has taken a number of positive steps in favour of managing for results. It still lacks a consistent and coherent approach, as well as a vision of how results are used to inform decisions and demonstrate accountability. Results efforts are at different stages of development at the project, country and corporate levels. There are no linkages between them, or with the development objectives of the Three-Year Programme. Neither is there a differentiated approach to setting out, monitoring or reporting expected results in fragile contexts. Austria is beginning to use the country data and results systems of its partner countries. This practice needs to be systematised, as Austria further develops results frameworks for all its country programmes.