Workshop on Malaria and HIV/AIDS Impact Evaluation

Objective

The cross-country workshop combined training in impact evaluation methods with program-specific “clinics”. The purpose of the training was to build knowledge on the use of impact evaluation among policy makers and program managers. The objective of the clinics was to apply this knowledge to the design of programs-specific evaluations. The workshop served to launch the process of implementation of the evaluations.

Proposed Agenda

The agenda was organized as follows:

• Sessions to frame the policy discussion
• Sessions to learn about impact evaluation
• Program-specific break-up sessions to develop components of the impact evaluation plan:
  
  • Establish priority impact evaluation questions
  • Develop impact evaluation designs and concept notes.
  • Develop a work program and agree on a core support team for the impact evaluation.
  • Sessions to bring the implementation plan together and agree on next steps

Workshop Outputs & Outcomes

• Impact evaluation design (concept notes, one per team)
• IE operations (team composition, data collection requirements, capacity development needs, and budget & financing)
• Improved skills in using IE as a tool to improve malaria and HIV programs over time
• Preparatory work by participating malaria and HIV teams
• Each government team will be asked to:
  
  • Define team composition. Each team should include key staff, such as the head of policy, the head of the program, and the head of M&E/MIS/Statistics.
  • Gather information on their intervention as a basis for workshop discussions. Information might include:
    
    • Mapping of proposed interventions (eligibility criteria, unit of intervention)
    • Roll-out plans (coverage, timing)
    • Inventory of available data and information systems
    • Program design issues and questions

Participants (approx. 105)

• Minister of Health of Eritrea (1)
• Delegates from national Malaria programs of: DRC (5), Eritrea (5), Kenya (1), Nigeria (1), Senegal (1), Zambia (3)
• Delegates from national HIV/AIDS programs of: Benin (5), Democratic Republic of the Congo (5), Eritrea (5), Ghana (5), Kenya (5), Mali (3), Mauritania (5), Niger (5), Southern Sudan (7)
• The Health Sector Public Expenditure Tracking Program in D.R. Congo (6)
• World Bank Task Team Leaders (11)
• World Bank impact evaluation team (10)
• World Bank HIV team (2)
• World Bank country office (2)
• Local donor agencies (The Global Fund, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, Italian Cooperation) (13)