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Getting to Outcomes: 10 Steps for Achieving Results-Based Accountability
Report
August 1, 2007
Developed by the RAND Corporation, Getting to Outcomes outlines a step-by-step process to plan, implement and evaluate effective programs that are intended to achieve outcomes in a community. Developed for the substance abuse prevention field, Getting to Outcomes can be applied to the process of goal-setting and intervention selection for many social issues. This report briefly describes GTO's 10 Steps.
GTO consists of 10 steps that empower program developers to do the following:
- Plan effective programs that are accountable to developers and funders and achieve intended outcomes. The GTO model is flexible enough to facilitate many different types of programs.
- Implement the programs.
- Evaluate the programs to see how well they worked and continuously improve them, providing outcome data to funders. GTO provides tools for demonstrating that a program works and that it uses its resources effectively to achieve and sustain projected goals and outcomes.
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