Core Group

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.

Working Group Tools/Resources

• NEW! The Mortality Assessment for Health Programs (MAP) System
  

  This manual is a guide for non-governmental organizations carrying out child health programs to assess under-five mortality rates and evaluate programs using the CARE Group Model. By following this manual’s methodology to establish a Mortality Assessment for Health Programs (MAP) System, organizations can collect valid and precise information about vital events and detect statistically significant changes in under-five mortality rates over the life of a child health program. Our hope is that NGOs will find this manual practical and feasible to assess correlations between program activities and mortality trends in a variety of settings.

• LQAS Excel Spreadsheets
  

  The LQAS Excel Spreadsheets are designed to provide all of the calculations needed to determine if each Supervision Area (SA) has met the Decision Rule (DR) for every indicator entered, as well as calculating the average coverage for the entire project area (all Supervision Areas combined).  Simply list each indicator collected in the data entry tabs, and then enter the responses for each indicator.  The spreadsheet then automatically calculates the Decision Rules, whether each SA has met the Decision Rule, and the average coverage for each indicator, and the results are displayed in the LQAS summary tabs. The spreadsheets are available in English and French.

• M&E Technical Reference Materials
• Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS): Protocol for Parallel Sampling
• Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS): Frequently Asked Questions
• LQAS Series: On-Line Workshop (February-April 2006)
  
  • Recorded Lectures
    • #1: Introduction to Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Basic Principles
    • #2: Data Collecting Using LQAS
    • #3: Supervision Areas and Tabulation of Data When Using in LQAS
    • #4: Calculating Results for Making Informed Decisions: Indicators, Confidence Intervals and Clasification of Supervision Areas
    • #5: Using LQAS for Monitoring
    • #6: LQAS vs. Cluster Sampling
  • Lectures (Presentation Slides): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• LQAS Participant's Manual 2007
• LQAS Trainer's Guide
  • Intro
    Modules: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Appendix
  • Spanish version

• Partnership Defined Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
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• KPC Trainings of Survey Trainers (TOST): Trainer's Guide/ Participant's Guide
• KPC Survey Training
  
  • Trainer's Guides:
    Modules: 1, 2, 3
  • Participant's Guides
    Modules: 1, 2, 3
• Participatory Program Evaluation Manual (Spanish) (French)
• Training in Qualitative Research Methods 
• MEASURE Evaluation: MENTOR (Monitoring and Evaluation Network of Training On-line Resources)
• A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Child Health Programs - MEASURE Evaluation Project (September 2005)

• The ‘Most Significant Change’ (MSC) Technique:A Guide to Its Use

• Finding Common Ground: Harmonizing the Application of Different Quality Improvement Models in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Programs

Useful Links

• Gender Evaluation Methodology
• MEASURE Evaluation
• Performance Assessment Resource Centre
• M&E Tools at MCHIP (formerly CSTS)
• EPI Info
• The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods
  This website lists a variety of free resources focused on how-to evaluation research and the methods used (surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, etc.)

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