MEASURE Evaluation News
- Presentation: Global Youth Enterprise Conference
- "Comparisons of Evaluation Methods for Livelihoods of Vulnerable Children Programs"
- Presentation: PHI2008
- “Changing the Paradigm of Using Health Information for Better Results”
- International AIDS Conference, August 3-8
- AIDS 2008 will provide many opportunities for the presentation of important new scientific research and for productive, structured dialogue on the major challenges facing the global response to AIDS.
- HIV Spatial Data Repository Launched
- New website designed for GIS users!
- Paraguay Improving Health Information System
- USAID, MEASURE Evaluation and PAHO formed a technical cooperation initiative to improve the national health information system in Paraguay.
- Publications Released
- Comparison of PLACE method and a DHS Survey in Rwanda; Steps to Conduct an HFA
- The PLACE Method for M&E of HIV Prevention Programs
- The Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) protocol is designed to provide strategic information to prevention programs based on the unique features of local HIV transmission networks.
- Estimating Size of Injecting Drug User Population
- PLACE data can be used to estimate the number of people visiting PLACE venues.
- HIV Prevention Programs at PLACE Venues
- The PLACE method identifies public venues where people meet new sexual partners and provides this information to local HIV prevention programs for outreach efforts.
- Comparison of PLACE and RDS
- PLACE is a venue-based method for sampling most at risk populations and respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a social network-based sampling strategy.
- Identifying HIV Prevention Gaps in Zimbabwe
- MEASURE Evaluation is releasing a report on a study which examines why girls under 18 and young women 18-24 are at high risk of getting HIV.
- Zambian Stakeholders Review PLACE Findings
- MEASURE Evaluation assisted a Zambian research organization to conduct two PLACE studies in Kapiri Mposhi and Mongu, Zambia.
- PLACE Implemented in Haiti
- MEASURE Evaluation technical advisers adapted the PLACE method tools for local use in Haiti in collaboration with FOSREF, the primary provider of youth reproductive health services.
- PLACE Publications & Resources
- Journal articles, reports about PLACE - including a link to the PLACE manual.
- Publications Released
- Targeted evaluations for OVC programs; data demand and information use decision calendar now in French.
- Summer Workshops
- Learn to improve routine health information program systems and build capacity in health facility assessments.
- M&E Fundamentals
- Do you know the fundamentals of monitoring and evaluation? Take this free course online to learn!
- Early Marriage Study Used
- Action plans created in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia are significant for the support of M&E aspects of early marriage prevention interventions.
- SAVVY in Brazil
- The Brazilian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with MEASURE Evaluation, adapted SAVVY verbal autopsy tools and methodologies to improve the quality of their Mortality Information System.
