Measuring Service Delivery

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Welcome
Luca Barbone, PRMPR

Overview
Jishnu Das and Markus Goldstein

An Overview of Health Facility Surveys

Presenters:

• Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow: "Health Facility Surveys: An Introduction" (196kb PDF)
  • Presentation (73kb PPT)

Technocrats Meet Bureaucrats: Measuring Program Impacts with Administrative Data

Chair: Emanuela Galasso

Presenters:

• Peter F. Lanjouw and Berk Ozler: “Administrative Data in a Study of Local Inequality and Project Choice: Issues of Interpretation and Relevance” (66kb PDF)
• Elizabeth M. King: “Lessons from Project Implementation Data for Estimating Program Impact: Experiences with an Early Childhood Development Project in the Philippines”
• Emanuela Galasso: "What Can Be Learned from Project Monitoring Data? Lessons from a Nutrition Program in Madagascar" (51kb PDF)

Break

The Buck doesn’t stop here: Public Expenditure data

Chair: Waly Wane

Presenters:

• Waly Wane: “Linking Leaking Public Funds and Outcomes: Which Data Helps"
• Magnus Lindelow: "Tracking Public Money in the Health Sector: Conceptual and Practical Challenges" (133kb PDF)

Lunch

School Surveys

Chair: Deon P. Filmer

Presenters:

• Edmundo Murrugarra: “Ukraine School Survey Design: Challenges and Uses”
• Deon P. Filmer: “Some Lessons from Schools Surveys in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea” (123kb PPT)

2:30–3:30pm

Spaced Out: Using Geographic Information

Chair: Johan A. Mistiaen

Presenters:

• Jishnu Das, "Where Am I? Village and School Locations in Pakistan"
• Johan A. Mistiaen, “Service Delivery Mapping: Integrating GIS Databases in Kenya”

Friday, April 28, 2006

New Tools, New Contexts

Chair: Jed Friedman

Presenters:

• Kenneth L. Leonard and Jishnu Das: “Using Vignettes to Measure the Quality of Health Care” (57kb PDF)
  • Presentation (4.23mb PDF)
• Pieter M. Serneels: “Perceptions of Health Care Workers in Rwanda and Ethiopia
• Elizabeth Frankenberg and Jed Friedman: "Assessing the Provision of Health and Education Services in the Aftermath of a Disaster: The Case of Post–Tsunami Aceh" (761kb PDF)
  • Presentation (6.7mb PPT)

Break

Measuring Health Service Efficiency

Chair: Mead Over

Presenters:

• Mead Over, Wally Wane and Mattias K. A. Lundberg
  “Estimating the Technical Efficiency of Health Services in Developing Countries with Application to HIV Prevention and Rural Clinic Care”

Matchmakers: Using Multiple survey tools (lunch will be served)

Chair: Kathleen Beegle

Presenters:

• Kinnon Scott: "Ideas for Linking an LSMS with a QSDS" (116kb PPT)
• Mattias K. A. Lundberg: "Perceptions of Health Care in Exit Interviews and Household Surveys in Uganda." (290kb PPT)
• Kathleen Beegle: "Health Facility and School Surveys in The Indonesia Family Life Surveys" (70kb PDF)

Break

Plenary Wrap–up –– Summing Up What We Have Learned