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11 Using Evaluation Findings and Communicating Key Messages
11 Using Evaluation Findings and Communicating Key Messages
Pages 95-104
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• Putting findings and recommendations into context for local governments and other local stakeholders can strengthen pro grams on the ground. • Evaluation results can be especially useful if synthesized and disseminated through structured forums at the country level.
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By mid-2006, the PMI was operating in three countries; six more came online in 2007; and by 2008 the effort was operational in all 15 countries in Africa. The program started with a clear business model, strong leadership in the person of retired admiral Tim Ziemer, and a country-level Malaria Operational Planning Process.
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Many aspects of the PEPFAR evaluation report, she said, were relevant to strengthening the Roads to a Healthy Future program; in particular, she discussed two key examples of recommendations resulting in action. In the summary findings for HIV prevention, the evaluation recognized that interventions targeted at prevention of sexual transmission, including biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions, are all critical com
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"As an implementer, this for me was a stark reminder that gaps in the evidence base around behavioral and structural interventions persisted within my own program, but also across the public health fraternity," Muroki explained. Moreover, she and her team realized that this gap in the evidence base was undermining support for these two critical elements of balanced programming because there was not enough evidence proving that the program's behavioral and structural interventions were working.
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"With information overload being an ever-present challenge in our world today, I think the public health evaluation community must engage audiences in ways that cut through their own clutter, whether we're thinking of individuals or of organizations and institutions. Identifying and developing strategies to make this information easier to access, digest, and act upon, for me, is a critical step for consideration going forward." THE SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON INFLUENCING POLICY AND PERFORMANCE In November 2011, South Africa approved a National Evaluation Policy that created the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Office of the President.
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In the case of the IOM evaluation of PEPFAR, dissemination and communication activities were included in the evaluation contract. Scott noted that the audience for the PEPFAR evaluation was quite diverse, including Congress, the Department of State, the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, the PEPFAR implementation agencies, others involved in national and global responses to HIV, and the general public.
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For the project webpage, the IOM created a brief quiz that focused on disease education and provided a global epidemiological perspective as well as a more in-depth interactive experience. This interactive experience has two functions, Scott explained.
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With regard to the budget specifically for dissemination, Scott noted that in general the IOM dissemination represents a relatively small part of overall project budgets. Aspects of dissemination are part of the core activities of the IOM studies, said Scott, but many extra activities depend on volunteer time from staff and committee members.
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Goldman raised the point that many evaluations essentially amount to technical experts from northern countries telling program managers in southern countries what to do differently. The real issue is how evaluations can contribute to a change process through partnerships, he said.
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