MEASURE Evaluation

As a key component of the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use REsults (MEASURE) framework, MEASURE Evaluation forges international partnerships in monitoring and evaluation, builds country capacity to produce and use quality health and population data, and strengthens health information systems.

MEASURE Evaluation promotes a continuous cycle of data demand, collection, analysis and utilization to improve population and health systems. more about us

MEASURE Evaluation Releases SAVVY

How can the necessary information on total deaths and deaths due to specific causes best be collected? We recommend a system that registers vital events and attributes an underlying cause to registered deaths in a nationally representative sample. This system, called Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy, or SAVVY, has been developed by MEASURE Evaluation and the International Programs Center of the U.S. Census Bureau.

SAVVY builds on decades of experience from both sentinel demographic surveillance and sample vital registration systems... read more