Results Based Management in Zimbabwe: Benefits and Challenges A Conceptual Study

The public sector is now concerned with a focus on achieving more with fewer resources. Resources are shrinking and increasing demand for better quality results. There is an increasing need to improve efficiency and accountability for results. It is a global trend using Results Based Management to improve public sector performance. The governments world over have been experiencing scarcity of resources. In an effort to make use of scarce resources to improve public sector, the Government of Zimbabwe introduced Results Based Management in 2005 championed by a consultant from Malaysia where the management tool has been successful. The tool emphasised on achieving quality results with the use of limited resources. This paper seeks to examine the implementation of RBM approach in Government of Zimbabwe has faced, with successes, challenges and disappointments which have been documented and experienced.