Vision: The M&E Working Group develops tools and trainings to increase child survival and health program performance and quality through the standardization of use of data, analysis and reporting.

2007 Working Group Highlights

• M&E working group members provided input into Rapid Assessment Health Facility Assessment (HFA) Assessment tool to Enhance Quality and Access at the Primary Health Care Level. The tool was a collaborative effort produced by USAID, the World Bank, the Child Survival and Technical Support Project (CSTS+), MEASURE Evaluation, and CORE Group and is designed specifically to aid managers to assess the quality and access to child health services at the primary level, namely first level facilities.

• Updated the standardized malaria indicators into the revised Knowledge, Practice and Coverage (KPC) survey tool. The KPC survey provides a rapid, easy-to-use means of assessing progress of child survival programs. The survey also fosters local participation by engaging community members in identifying health priorities and in monitoring community health status.

• Sponsored an Elluminate session entitled CSHGP Lives Saved Analysis: Estimating Child Survival Impact from Project Outcome Data. The session, hosted by Jim Ricca, MD, MPH of the Child Survival and Technical Support Project (CSTS+), provided an overview of the Child Survival and Health Grants Program Lives Saved calculator. The calculator is heavily based on the calculation sheets used by the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group or CHERG (also known as "the Bellagio Group") for the series in the Lancet in 2003 on Child Survival and in 2005 on Neonatal Health. The present calculator was developed by CSTS+ in collaboration with Saul Morris of the CHERG so that it would be usable for NGO project data.

• Past highlights

Working Group Tools/Resources

• KPC Mentoring Opportunities
• M&E Technical Reference Materials
• Assessing Community Health Programmes Using LQAS for Baseline Surveys and Regular Monitoring (2007):
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• MEASURE Evaluation: MENTOR (Monitoring and Evaluation Network of Training On-line Resources)
• KPC Training: Trainers Manual, Loma Linda University, 2006
• KPC Training: Participants Workbook, Loma Linda University, 2006
• LQAS Series: On-Line Workshop (February-April 2006)
• A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Child Health Programs - MEASURE Evaluation Project (September 2005)
• KPC Survey Training Curriculum (December 2004)
• KPC Field Guide (MS Word Doc)
• KPC 2000+ Survey/ All Modules
  • New: Module 4E: Malaria (March 2008)
  • Module 1A: Household Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (April 2005)
  • Module 2: Breastfeeding and Infant/Child Nutrition (June 2006)
  • Module 7: HIV/AIDS/STIs (January 2005)
• PEPFAR Indicators - Reporting Requirements and Guidelines (April 2004)
• KPC 2000+ Task Force (May 2003)
• LQAS Trainer's Guide (2003)
• LQAS Manual (March 2002)
• KPC Membership Survey
• Health Facility Assessment Tools
• IMPACT M&E Guide
• Resources For Qualitative Research

For additional resources, see Child Health + Development database.

Working Group Meetings and Reports

• Epi Info Training Workshop - Uganda (April 2005)
• Epi Info Training Workshop - Nicaragua (October 2003)

Working Group Toolbox

• Working Group Member List

Useful Links

• Gender Evaluation Methodology
• MEASURE Evaluation
• Performance Assessment Resource Centre
• M&E Tools at CSTS

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