Design Considerations for Evaluating the Impact of PEPFAR Workshop Summary (2008) / Chapter Skim
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3 Designing an Evaluation That Incorporates the Guiding Principles of Coordination, Harmonization, and Capacity Building
3 Designing an Evaluation That Incorporates the Guiding Principles of Coordination, Harmonization, and Capacity Building
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Benefits, Costs, and Opportunities of Coordination and Harmonization in Evaluation Benefits of Coordination and Harmonization in Evaluation Workshop participants outlined the value and benefit of coordination and harmonization in impact evaluation. Discussant Jim Sherry of George Washington University noted that coordination and harmonization in evaluation design and implementation are important in influencing 67
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Government partners were dealing with the challenges of service delivery to their populations long before PEPFAR and can provide a critical perspective on health system issues, such as health care workforce and supply chain issues, and how PEPFAR is addressing these, she added. Even in the context of an emergency situation, involvement of partner countries in the design of evaluation questions and methodology can improve the quality of the overall evaluation design and the interpretation of evaluation findings, noted speaker Binagwaho.
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These groups include the following: • People living with HIV/AIDS • Women • Youth, including those in and out of school • Other populations at risk • Government ministries -- beyond ministries of health -- and local management units • Health care workers at all levels in urban and rural settings • Health facilities • Nongovernmental and community organizations working inside and outside facilities • Community leaders • Religious leaders Constraints of Coordination and Harmonization in Evaluation High transaction costs are among the greatest constraints to coordination and harmonization in evaluation, workshop participants said. There is tension between the benefits of coordinating and taking advantage of existing synergies by linking with others' evaluation work and the costs of that coordination, remarked workshop moderator Ruth Levine of the Center for Global Development.
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Coordinating Evaluation Design, Conduct, and Results with Global Partners Workshop participants strongly articulated the need for PEPFAR to coordinate its evaluation efforts with other global partners. PEPFAR should not just be learning from its own evaluations, said speaker Rachel Glennerster of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory, it should be looking at work being done elsewhere.
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The Global Fund evaluation will devote nearly $15 million of the $17 million total evaluation budget to research, using prospective study survey evaluation research methods. Discussant Kolker noted that OGAC is currently in close contact with The Global Fund impact study organizers.
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Coordinating Evaluation Design, Conduct, and Results with Country-Level Partners Workshop participants described several opportunities for harmonization of evaluation with country partners. Speaker Pacqué-Margolis asserted that the evaluation function should be prioritized in country operation plans; partners should be included in evaluation planning; and funding mechanisms should promote harmonization.
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Joint field evaluations. Discussant Kolker remarked that aid effectiveness could be improved if common program and sectoral approaches used joint evaluation visits based on a single national plan and a single monitoring and evaluation system. Speaker Binagwaho offered the Rwandan experience -- in which partners from PEPFAR, The Global Fund, and the government of Rwanda routinely conduct joint field visits for evaluation purposes -- as a potential model.
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Field-Nguer added that local capacity and systems to collect, analyze, and use program information are of critical importance to program success and sustainability and should be built into the process of PEPFAR program implementation and impact evaluation. Constraints to Building Local Capacity in Evaluation Lack of systems for gathering data, inadequate funding mechanisms, and poor stakeholder engagement are among the constraints to building local capacity for evaluation, workshop participants said.
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Country-driven decision making and priority-setting processes were also suggested as potential models or tools for strengthening local evaluative capacity. Binagwaho suggested that the experience of comanaged decision making in Rwanda potentially could be applied to evaluation design.
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