1. LIBERIA 1 PERFORMANCE INDICATOR REFERENCE SHEET (PIRS) How good are the indicator resumes?

2. LIBERIA PIRS: OBJECTIVES 2  To complete the major Sections of a Performance Indicator Reference Sheet

3. LIBERIA Indicator Resume Sections Description (What is it made of?) Plan for data acquisition (How are data born and who are the midwives?) Data quality issues (Does it have any defects?) Plan for data analysis, review and reporting (What is its job in life? How does it do it?) Baselines, targets and actuals (Expected/actual performance on the job?) 3 3

4. LIBERIA 4 ADS 203.3.3.1 Requirements met by a completed PIRS (p. 11) Full set of performance indicators (1 per result in RF) Base line and targeted values (Disaggregated by sex if indicated) Source and method for data collection, schedule, data limitations, Data Quality Assessment procedures, estimated cost

5. LIBERIA Indicator Job Description: Tell the most truth about the related result when we need to hear it at the least possible cost. Let’s first review the PIRS instruction sheet Let’s review an example PIRS in the USAID PMP to see what is included. Does it do the job? Could you walk out the door and take the measure? Lets try one : Where? Whom? With what? When? How? 5

6. LIBERIA TASK VIII: Complete Sections of a PIRS 1.Select one indicator from your previous Task VII final list 2.Review the PIRS instructions and apply them to completing the following sections on a flip chart or electronic form  Indicator  Precise Definition  Unit of Measure  Disaggregated by  Justification/ Management Utility  Data Collection Method  Data Source  Frequency/timing of data acquisition *The common sense test is: Your colleagues will imagine themselves taking your PIRS out the door to take the measure: Where to go? What to observe? What tools to use? How to record? Working Time: 50 minutes 6

7. LIBERIA Session 4. Summary 7 Resume Sections Indicator job description Common sense test: Can a colleague take the sheet, walk out the door and get the measure? If reality doesn’t lie, maybe our measure of it does.