RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach (ROMA)

ROMA is an approach to improving your policy engagement processes, to influence change. It comprises a suite of tools that any organisation can use at any stage in their policy engagement process to improve how they diagnose the problem, understand the types of impact their work could have on policy-making, set realistic objectives for policy influence, develop a plan to achieve those objectives, monitor and learn from the progress they are making and reflect this learning back into their work. (Policy: set of decisions that give rise to specific proposals for action. legislation s setting standards, allocating resources between organisations, changing the levels of subsidies or taxes or consulting specific groups in the policy-making process.)

A guide containing a suite of tools that can be used to unpack complex problems, analyze stakeholder influence, and understand pathways of impact in conditions of uncertainty

approach to improving how you engage with policy to influence change Where the problem itself is complex, the environment within which policy is made will also be complex, and there are too many unknowns to just roll out a plan and measure predefined indicators. is a whole system approach

is also scalable: it can be applied to a small intervention, such as the promotion of research findings during an international event, or to a large multi-year programme or campaign to bring about changes in a particular sector.

process of constant reflection and learning

Using ROMA, you should be able to mix the two approaches, communicating throughout the life of your project so your stakeholders are aware of what may emerge and are able to consider possible responses

Concepts

Outcome Mapping

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RAPID

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Method

ROMA consists of three main activities, each of which is broken down into a series of steps.