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- Free E2G Mapping Tool Version 3
- E2G 3.0 is a free mapping tool from MEASURE Evaluation that allows you to create color-shaded maps in Google Earth using Excel spreadsheet data for administrative divisions (e.g., provinces and districts).
- Facts about Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
- A concise summary of implementing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) in maternal and child health surveying in Kenya and Liberia is now available. The fact sheet describes how the rapid, population-based surveying and analysis method was used in the countries.
- Rapid Monitoring of AIDS Referrals Tested
- A pilot test of the Rapid Monitoring of AIDS Referral System (R-MARS) tool kit was conducted in Nyandarua South and Nyandarua North districts from 2010 to 2012. The pilot assessed whether the tool kit and its instruments could be successfully adapted and used within a network of HIV/AIDS service providers and determined whether the data gathered during the pilot were useful for these providers.
- MEASURE Evaluation to Lead Kenya Associate Award
- MEASURE Evaluation has won an Associate Award in Kenya – with a ceiling of $35 million over 5 years.
- National Forum Unites Malaria-Control Experts in Kenya
- With support from MEASURE Evaluation, the first Kenya National Malaria Forum was held October 10-11 in Nairobi. The forum brought together more than 130 participants from the Kenyan government, NGOs, the press, faith-based organizations, universities, and other organizations participated to share knowledge and experiences about malaria control.
- Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in Kenya
- MEASURE Evaluation first used LQAS in Kenya in 2009 when it piloted the Child Survival Indicator Survey. The pilot study was undertaken in Kenya’s Western and Nyanza provinces in collaboration with the National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) and the Division of Child Health.
- 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.
- MEASURE Evaluation PRH at 2011 Int'l Family Planning Conference
- MEASURE Evaluation PRH will present four abstracts and moderate one panel at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal.
- Letter from Staff Published in the Lancet
- Senior director and staff agree traditional evaluation designs are limited in today’s complex global health environment.
- HIV Care and Support Evaluations in Kenya and Uganda
- Evaluations provide detailed descriptions of care and support services delivered through PEPFAR funding and identify the effective components and costs of the services, to improve the health of people with HIV in Kenya and Uganda.
- MEASURE Evaluation Welcomes New Deputy Director
- MEASURE Evaluation welcomes Dr. Jim C. Thomas as Deputy Director of HIV/AIDS and infectious disease.
- MEASURE Evaluation at the African Palliative Care Association Conference, Namibia
- MEASURE Evaluation presented public health evaluations to the African Palliative Care Association Conference in Windhoek, Namibia.
- 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.
- Interlinked Patient Monitoring Systems Developed for Country Adaptation
- The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners, with support from MEASURE Evaluation, have updated and expanded WHO’s 2006 Patient Monitoring Guidelines for HIV Care and Antiretroviral Therapy to promote the design and use of interlinked longitudinal patient monitoring systems that facilitate patient tracking and referrals between HIV care and treatment programs and other services. The revised guidelines are referred to as the Three Interlinked Patient Monitoring Systems for HIV Care/ART, MCH/PMTCT and TB/HIV or 3IPMS.
- 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.
- PEPFAR Public Health Evaluations Published
- Public health evaluations were commissioned to examine PEPFAR-funded HIV care and support by PEPFAR in Kenya and Uganda.
