MEASURE Evaluation
Who we are
MEASURE Evaluation is a USAID-funded project implemented by
the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in partnership with John Snow Inc., Tulane University, Macro International Inc., and Constella Futures.
Together, MEASURE Evaluation works in consultation with USAID Mission staff,
local counterparts, cooperating agencies working in country, USAID Bureau of
Global Health (BGH) staff and other donors.
MEASURE Evaluation researchers and technical advisers have
worked in 40 countries worldwide, with activities in Latin America, Africa,
Asia and the Near East. They combine extensive
field experience and knowledge and are innovators in demography, epidemiology,
economics, statistics, medical anthropology and clinical health sciences.
Areas of technical expertise include:
- Development,
testing, and use of accurate, cost-effective tools and methods for
monitoring and evaluation
- Improving
the performance of Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) for more
effective health system management
- Development
and delivery of training to build capabilities of individuals and
in-country organizations
- Recognition
of the economic, social and cultural factors that must be considered when
providing guidance to health programs to inform and improve public policy.
What we do
MEASURE Evaluation provides technical assistance to health
ministers, district caregivers and local trainees to successfully manage data
for better informed program planning and policy-making. With an overall
objective to improve the collection, analysis, and presentation of data to
promote better use of data in planning, policy-making, managing, monitoring,
and evaluating population, health, and nutrition programs, MEASURE Evaluation -
Increases user demand for quality
information, methods, and tools, and facilitation of information use in
decision making
Increases in-country individual and
institutional technical capacity and resources for the identification of data
needs and the collection, analysis and communication of appropriate information
to meet those needs.
Increases collaboration and
coordination in efforts to obtain and communicate health, population, and
nutrition data in areas of mutual interest.
Improves design and implementation
of the information gathering process including tools, methodologies and
technical guidance to meet users' needs.
Increases availability of population,
health, and nutrition data, analyses, methods, and tools.
MEASURE
Evaluation builds on a broad range of approaches including:
- development and
implementation of training programs;
- technical assistance;
- preparation and
presentation of papers;
- organization of
international meetings;
- design and testing of
monitoring and evaluation tools and methods;
- development, testing, and
administration of data collection protocols and instrumentation;
- strengthening of routine
health information systems;
- performance monitoring and
evaluation;
- development of tools to
facilitate data use;
- data utilization
workshops; and
- information dissemination
of information through a range of products, such as reports, manuals, and
peer-reviewed journal articles.
