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- Seminar Highlights Community Mapping
- This daylong seminar highlighted innovations in community mapping programs that MEASURE Evaluation and its partners are carrying out across the globe.
- Mortality among Children under Five Drops by Nearly Half in Tanzania Mainland
- Mortality among children under age five in Tanzania mainland from all causes has dropped nearly 45% from 1999 to 2010, according to a new Roll Back Malaria Partnership report.
- OVC Workshop Held in Tanzania
- Twenty-five participants from Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania gathered in Zanzibar to attend a Data Demand and Use (DDU) Workshop related to the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) in their countries.
- Expanding Role of M&E in South Africa
- In the 11 years since he has been studying and teaching monitoring and evaluation (M&E), Professor Andy Beke at the University of Pretoria has seen a profound shift in the field. M&E has not only become a more refined subject, the South African professor says, but it also has gained a much wider acceptance and appreciation within the public health and development communities.
- Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in Tanzania
- MEASURE Evaluation first used the lot quality assurance sampling methodology in Tanzania in 2010 in its effort to determine whether services were being delivered to the country’s most vulnerable children.
- Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Measures Performance
- What originated in the 1920s as a quality control methodology in the manufacturing sector is proving to be quite useful in the public health context, and increasingly constructive to MEASURE Evaluation’s in-country work.
- SAVVY Improves Data Collection in Zambia
- For the first time, the Zambian government may be able to obtain reliable, detailed information about causes of death and other key health indicators thanks to MEASURE Evaluation's SAVVY verbal autopsy tools.
- Free E2G Mapping Tool Upgrade
- E2G has been enhanced. This free mapping tool allows users to create color-shaded maps in Google Earth using data from Excel spreadsheets.
- Resident Advisors Trained in PEPFAR Next Generation Indicators
- MEASURE Evaluation Resident Advisors and staff from six countries met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to learn about the PEPFAR Next Generation Indicators, which went into effect for FY 2010 reporting.
- Data Quality Assurance Tools Enhanced
- The MEASURE Evaluation Data Quality Assurance suite of tools have been updated and are now available.
- OVC Program Evaluation Presentations Available with Audio
- MEASURE Evaluation organized a special event to present key findings and lessons learned from recent evaluations of OVC programs in East Africa, to discuss emerging issues and future directions for improvement of OVC programs, and to inform future OVC evaluations through consideration of additional informational needs and appropriate methodologies.
- Evaluations of Three Programs Supporting Most Vulnerable Children in Tanzania Show Benefits
- This policy brief provides a concise summary of key findings from three orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) program evaluations conducted in Tanzania. It examines the policy and programmatic implications of study results and offers recommendations for service providers and other decision-makers at the program and national levels.
- View Conference Presentations by MEASURE Evaluation
- MEASURE Evaluation presents at numerous public meetings and conferences throughout the year. Presentations are being made available for further reading and reference.
- Two Virtual Leadership Development Programs Successfully Completed
- To date, 22 teams in 15 counties, totaling 180 participants have successfully completed the Virtual Leadership Development Program to build leadership capacity of M&E managers in order to strengthen M&E systems and improve performance.
- Effects of Programs Supporting OVC Report Published
- Key findings from evaluations of four programs, supporting OVC, to ascertain the extent to which program interventions are effective in improving the well-being of OVC and their families, and the interventions' cost-effectiveness in achieving key outcomes.
- OVC Programs in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia Evaluated
- Six reports evaluate OVC programs in Kenya and Tanzania to measure program outcomes: One working paper evaluates the impact a community-based program by a Zambian NGO on educational outcomes.
- Global Symposium Highlights Need to Link Health Decision Making to Data
- MEASURE Evaluation, the Health Metrics Network, and the East, Central and Southern African Health Community co-organized a global symposium for professionals to exchange successful experiences in improving health programs and policies through the use of quality health data and information.
- DataUseNet Connects Professionals Working to Improve Use of Data
- Newly created, DataUseNet, connects professionals working around the world to improve the use of data and information in informing health programs and policies.
- Symposium Registration Ends January 9th!
- In an effort to strengthen the links between data and decision making, a symposium will be held January 28-29, 2009 in Arusha, Tanzania, with the objective of sharing experiences in evidence-based decision making.
- Publications Released
- Case studies; annotated bibliography of HFA surveys; white paper on confidentiality and spatial data
