Archive for: Monitoring & Evaluation

Health of People and the Environment: Lake Victoria Basin Project Baseline Study: Synthesis Report

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This is a report of the baseline data for the Health of People and Environment-LVB (HoPE-LVB) Project, led by Pathfinder International. The Project aims to provide underserved families and communities with knowledge and skills to improve reproductive health, reduce levels of poverty through livelihoods, and sustainably manage local natural resources. The survey found that community knowledge levels were high but practice levels were low for sectoral outcomes. Engagement in community groups was high, suggesting opportunities to implement value-added population, health, and environment (PHE) activities. The policy review found that policies encourage PHE integration, but lack structures to facilitate implementation across sectors. The participatory rural assessment yielded information on the potential ‘value-added’ that HoPE-LVB can generate, identifying increased income and access to quality health services as key priorities for the project and noting key challenges to uptake of positive health and conservation practices.

Year: 2013

Source: Pathfinder International

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    Guidance for Evaluating Integrated Global Development Programs

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    This comprehensive framework is a guidance document for evaluating multisector, integrated programs. It summarizes current research methodologies and approaches specific to integrated programs to better assess the nuanced nature of complex integrated models. This document includes guidance and key considerations on formative research, performance indicators, program monitoring, process evaluation, cost analyses, impact evaluation and scale-up evaluation.

    Year: 2016

    Source: FHI 360

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      Ecohealth Midterm Evaluation

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      Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, known historically for its biodiversity, was devastated by years of war. To help restore the park to its former state, in 2008, the Gregory Carr Foundation entered into a 20-year agreement with the Mozambique government via the Gorongosa Restoration Project. Key objectives were: protection of the Park’s biodiversity and natural ecosystem processes, and poverty alleviation through ecotourism and other Park benefits. An underlying assumption was that a healthy ecosystem would provide the foundation for economic and social development. An Ecohealth program was incorporated to address health problems contributing to poverty. With support from USAID and Mt Sinai Hospital, an integrated (PHE) package of services was provided including family planning/reproductive health and maternal and child health interventions. In 2012, a midterm evaluation was commissioned by USAID to assess the extent to which Ecohealth was reaching its objectives and to identify “best practices” for replication and sharing with other integrated efforts worldwide.

      Year: 2013

      Source: Evaluation and Research Technologies for Health

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        Family Planning

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        Maternal and Child Health

        Monitoring & Evaluation

        Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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        Designing and Implementing Integrated Approaches to Population, Health and Environment (PHE): Training Materials

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        USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health supported the creation of a set of training materials for developing the capacity of field practitioners to design, implement and monitor integrated approaches to Population-Health-Environment (PHE). The materials aim to build country capacity to implement the steps and models outlined in the Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual developed in 2007 (available in this resource). The training materials consist of the following:

        Year: 2009

        Source: United States Agency for International Development

          Conservation

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          Integration

          Monitoring & Evaluation

          Population

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          Changes in Household Well Being and Resilience: The Role of Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health in the Tuungane Project

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          Both the family planning sector and the environmental sector will be interested in this synopsis of findings from a study of the first four years of the Tuungane integrated population, health and environment (PHE) project in Tanzania. Analyses of the 2011 baseline and 2016 midline quantitative data, and additional qualitative data from 2016, measured the project’s progress and shed light on the contribution of the project interventions to building resilience, and on the links between family planning and other components of resilience. This synopsis focuses on several key indicators of resilience that relate to population, family planning, and reproductive health.

          Year: 2018

          Source: The Evidence Project

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            Analyzing Changes in Population, Health and Environment Perceptions and Behaviors in the Saandani National Park, Tanzania

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            This report shows the results of a Behavior Monitoring Survey conducted in 2012 in the communities around Saadani National Park (SANAPA) in Tanzania and a comparison with the results with those of a similar survey done three years earlier. In 2009, the BALANCED Project started working in the SANAPA area through an ongoing integrated coastal management initiative to develop and deliver integrated PHE messages through peer educators and community-based distributers of family planning commodities. In 2012, the BALANCED team conducted a follow-up survey to assess the changes in behaviors and attitudes resulting from the four years of BALANCED Project interventions. A comparison of results from the 2009 and 2012 surveys shows that the population, socioeconomic, health, and environmental conditions of those living around SANAPA have remained relatively stable between 2009 and 2012. It points as well to increased awareness of family planning and reproductive health FP/RH in the target areas, increased support amongst men for FP/RH, and increased support (by both males and females) for conservation activities.

            Year: 2013

            Source: The BALANCED Project

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              Coastal

              Community Outreach

              Conservation

              Family Planning

              Integration

              Monitoring & Evaluation

              Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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              An Evaluation of the Alternative Advocacy Project in the Visayas Region on Behalf of PATH Foundation Philippines Inc.

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              This evaluation of a four-province, 13-municipality project focused on a survey designed to measure the knowledge and perception of policymakers and decision-makers on family planning and reproductive health, to provide inputs to the Alternative Advocacy Project (AAP) of PATH Foundation Philippines. The AAP promoted family planning and reproductive health as a good practice for coastal resource management (CRM). It targeted policymakers and decision-makers and focused on improving policymaking at the local level. The project researched the increased use of family planning and reproductive health concepts in the development plans of municipalities.

              Year: 2006

              Source: Environmental Science for Social Change

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              A Tool for Conducting Population, Health and Environment Behavior Monitoring Surveys

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              The Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) Project developed this Population, Health and Environment (PHE) Behavior Monitoring Survey tool to help PHE practitioners develop and implement situational and behavior monitoring surveys. Understanding the context of the place will help identify possible entry points where PHE activities might have the potential to improve the quality of life and environment in the field sites. This tool is useful to anyone designing a new PHE project or developing baseline or follow-up surveys to monitor PHE-related behaviors and/or perceptions. It is primarily written for PHE practitioners who need to develop a survey, but who have limited training and expertise in survey methodologies. A secondary audience includes students or other researchers who plan to conduct behavior monitoring surveys.

              Year: 2013

              Source: The BALANCED Project

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                A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs

                This document is a guide to effective M&E of integrated PHE projects and serves as a reference for the entire international development community. The guide consists of three parts covering the PHE conceptual framework, guidance on monitoring and evaluation in programs, and a detailed discussion of indicators for population, health, environment, integration and value-added. Starting with an overview and then diving into technical information, the guide covers types of evaluations, data quality and sources, and terminology. PHE indicators are provided and organized into categories for all aspects of a PHE project: population, health, environment, integration, and value-added. These indicators are presented clearly so that they can be adapted to and used for different projects.
                Year: 2007
                Source: MEASURE Evaluation

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                  2013 International Population, Health and Environment Conference Proceedings

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                  The 2013 International Population, Health, and Environment Conference, organized by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the PHE Ethiopia Consortium, convened over two days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia around the theme “Healthy Families, Healthy Environments.” The PHE Conference brought together over 150 PHE implementers and advocates representing 20 different countries from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and North America.

                  Practitioners, donors, policymakers, journalists, and potential partners had the chance to learn about recent accomplishments and pressing issues during roundtable discussions, plenary sessions, and an evening reception. Roundtable discussions provided a space to discuss experiences and challenges and chart paths forward in areas critical to the advancement of the field. The discussion themes included: “Best Practices in Implementation,” “Monitoring and Evaluation,” “Expanding and Institutionalizing PHE Interventions,” and “Advocacy and Communications/Networks.”

                  Year: 2014

                  Source: Population Reference Bureau

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                    Integration

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