This "Sourcebook on Emerging Good Practice: Managing for Development Results Principles in Action" was released in March 2006. It compiles some 20 examples – illustrations of how different groups in different circumstances applied the principles of managing for results, what challenges they met,
and how they attempted to meet those challenges. A product of the OECD-DAC Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results, it is an 'idea book' about how development agencies can achieve five core principles on managing for results endorsed at the Paris High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005). According to the book's introduction, "for those working on this still-young agenda, however, it is sometimes hard to know how and where to begin, whom to involve, and where to look for assistance. There are no absolute answers to these questions, because every country and agency has its own unique situation. Nevertheless, as some agencies and countries have tried this work, they have begun to mark a path that can be helpful to others."