Presented by Sharon McDonald.
6.1: Supporting Families: Federal Funding Opportunities
This workshop explores new federal funding resources that can serve homeless and at-risk parents and children. Home Visiting and the Housing and Services Demonstration for Homeless Persons are among the programs covered.
CORE Group Fall Meeting 2010. Using Collaborative Improvement to Achieve Quality Care for Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia. - Nicole Richardson, Save the Children USA
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food InsecurityESD UNU-IAS
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food Insecurity
Anthony P. Setari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methods, Coordinator of Ph.D. in Education, Dept. of Education Policy, Research, and Evaluation, Spadoni College
of Education, Coastal Carolina University
Michelle Dzurenda, Graduate Coordinator, RCE Georgetown and Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Leadership
RCE Georgetown
10th Americas RCE Regional Meeting
5-7 October, 2021
This document describes an agent-based model that simulates the interaction between parents' vaccination preferences and providers' tolerance of hesitancy. The model assigns vaccination preferences to parent agents and allows providers to decide whether to retain or dismiss non-vaccinating parents based on their tolerance. The output is the distribution of hesitant parents within practices and exposure to hesitant parents. Next steps are proposed to make the model more complex by adding multiple provider and parent types, decision rules, practice sizes and a spatial component to better simulate real-world dynamics.
The document summarizes WorldFish's strategy for aligning with reforms to the CGIAR and achieving its goals through partnerships. Key points include:
- CGIAR is reforming from 15 independent centers to 1 consortium focused on mega programs and impact.
- WorldFish's strategy and research focuses on reducing poverty, increasing food security and improving nutrition through fisheries and aquaculture.
- WorldFish will work through CRPs and partnerships with NARS, ARIs, NGOs to achieve outcomes and impacts.
- Partnerships will be based on principles of equality, transparency, responsibility and results orientation.
1) The document summarizes the Rwanda Expanded Impact Child Survival Project which used community health workers (CHWs) organized into peer support groups to improve child health outcomes in six districts of Rwanda from 2007-2011.
2) The project saw significant increases in positive health behaviors like handwashing and treatment-seeking for malaria/pneumonia as well as immunization rates.
3) Organizing CHWs into small peer support groups provided social support, improved supervision and reporting, and created an effective mechanism for behavior change communication through home visits.
This document summarizes the Transform Nutrition research consortium, which aims to accelerate reductions in undernutrition. It has partners in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and other focus countries. The consortium will examine how to effectively scale up direct nutrition interventions, maximize the nutrition impact of indirect programs like social protection and agriculture, and create an enabling policy environment. It will explore cross-cutting issues of governance, inclusion, and fragility. The consortium is led by six organizations and will generate evidence to influence policymaking and nutrition action through stakeholder engagement and communications strategies.
The STAR Community Index is a framework developed by ICLEI-USA to help local governments measure and advance sustainability across the three pillars of environmental, economic and social equity. It provides a standardized rating system for communities to track their performance, identify areas for improvement, and foster competition and innovation around sustainability goals. The STAR Community Index was built with input from over 160 volunteers and has engaged 10 pilot communities to test its tools and online platform.
Presented by Sharon McDonald.
6.1: Supporting Families: Federal Funding Opportunities
This workshop explores new federal funding resources that can serve homeless and at-risk parents and children. Home Visiting and the Housing and Services Demonstration for Homeless Persons are among the programs covered.
CORE Group Fall Meeting 2010. Using Collaborative Improvement to Achieve Quality Care for Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia. - Nicole Richardson, Save the Children USA
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food InsecurityESD UNU-IAS
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food Insecurity
Anthony P. Setari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methods, Coordinator of Ph.D. in Education, Dept. of Education Policy, Research, and Evaluation, Spadoni College
of Education, Coastal Carolina University
Michelle Dzurenda, Graduate Coordinator, RCE Georgetown and Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Leadership
RCE Georgetown
10th Americas RCE Regional Meeting
5-7 October, 2021
This document describes an agent-based model that simulates the interaction between parents' vaccination preferences and providers' tolerance of hesitancy. The model assigns vaccination preferences to parent agents and allows providers to decide whether to retain or dismiss non-vaccinating parents based on their tolerance. The output is the distribution of hesitant parents within practices and exposure to hesitant parents. Next steps are proposed to make the model more complex by adding multiple provider and parent types, decision rules, practice sizes and a spatial component to better simulate real-world dynamics.
The document summarizes WorldFish's strategy for aligning with reforms to the CGIAR and achieving its goals through partnerships. Key points include:
- CGIAR is reforming from 15 independent centers to 1 consortium focused on mega programs and impact.
- WorldFish's strategy and research focuses on reducing poverty, increasing food security and improving nutrition through fisheries and aquaculture.
- WorldFish will work through CRPs and partnerships with NARS, ARIs, NGOs to achieve outcomes and impacts.
- Partnerships will be based on principles of equality, transparency, responsibility and results orientation.
1) The document summarizes the Rwanda Expanded Impact Child Survival Project which used community health workers (CHWs) organized into peer support groups to improve child health outcomes in six districts of Rwanda from 2007-2011.
2) The project saw significant increases in positive health behaviors like handwashing and treatment-seeking for malaria/pneumonia as well as immunization rates.
3) Organizing CHWs into small peer support groups provided social support, improved supervision and reporting, and created an effective mechanism for behavior change communication through home visits.
This document summarizes the Transform Nutrition research consortium, which aims to accelerate reductions in undernutrition. It has partners in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and other focus countries. The consortium will examine how to effectively scale up direct nutrition interventions, maximize the nutrition impact of indirect programs like social protection and agriculture, and create an enabling policy environment. It will explore cross-cutting issues of governance, inclusion, and fragility. The consortium is led by six organizations and will generate evidence to influence policymaking and nutrition action through stakeholder engagement and communications strategies.
The STAR Community Index is a framework developed by ICLEI-USA to help local governments measure and advance sustainability across the three pillars of environmental, economic and social equity. It provides a standardized rating system for communities to track their performance, identify areas for improvement, and foster competition and innovation around sustainability goals. The STAR Community Index was built with input from over 160 volunteers and has engaged 10 pilot communities to test its tools and online platform.
Overview of CNCS Priorities and Performance Measuresserviceresources
The document discusses CNCS's performance measurement framework, which aims to align programs to national priorities and make CNCS a more performance-driven agency. It outlines CNCS's strategic plan goals of increasing national service impact, strengthening programs, maximizing value, and improving operations. Key parts of the framework include agency-wide priority measures linked to strategic goals, grantee measures, and an annual performance measurement cycle.
The document discusses the Wellness Improvement Network's Health Improvement Programme, which aims to address challenges related to chronic illness in workforces. It notes that chronic diseases reduce productivity and sustainability through increased absenteeism. The programme focuses on lifestyle changes and treatment compliance, which account for 50-75% of health costs. It utilizes a data-driven approach and benchmarks from the Wellness Council of America to craft interventions, ensure management support, and evaluate outcomes. The programme's technology platform provides comprehensive live reporting to drive compliance, monitor lifestyle changes, and reveal opportunities for high returns on healthcare investments.
Children's Services Council of Broward County, Systemic Model of Preventioncscbroward
Research Analyst Laura Ganci and Program Specialist Melissa Stanley of the Children's Services Council of Broward County, hosted a webinar for the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association on Implementing a Collaborative Approach to Child Welfare.
The Children's Services Council of Broward County provides leadership, advocacy and resources necessary to enhance children's lives and empower them to become responsible, productive adults. To learn more, visit us online at www.cscbroward.org and on social media at www.facebook.com/cscbroward; www.twitter.com/cscbroward; and www.youtube.com/cscbroward
Health care costs are rising rapidly, making it difficult for providers to ignore costs. Hospitals and doctors must find ways to provide high-value care that balances reducing costs with improving patient outcomes. The Affordable Care Act aims to expand insurance coverage, so providers need tools to deliver cost-conscious care that creates value for both patients and the healthcare system.
The document discusses lessons learned and recommendations from a five-state consortium working to improve care coordination and service linkages to support healthy child development. Key lessons included developing processes to improve provider communication, using quality improvement to test new models, and incorporating formal parent involvement. Recommendations focused on starting with primary care and early intervention programs, considering automated data integration models, and gathering stakeholder feedback to improve forms and coordination.
The presentation summarizes the effectiveness and lessons of the World Bank Group's support for health services in client countries, as outlined in IEG's evaluation.
This document discusses evaluation practices and challenges in violence prevention. It provides examples of evaluations conducted on child sexual abuse prevention programs in Massachusetts and shaken baby syndrome prevention programs. It also discusses using evaluation to promote sustainability, dissemination, and teaching evaluation practices to social workers. Key challenges discussed include understanding stakeholder culture and complexity in real-world settings.
Sustainable management of commons to boost synergies: A case study on India
By Wei Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Boosting synergies and managing trade-offs in food systems
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 21, 2021
Dr Wokje Abrahamse of Otago University and Dr Lauren Christie of Victoria University of Wellington present their views of research theory and engagement principles. Wokje introduces the theoretical barriers to change and discusses the results from a systematic review of 38 studies to determine the effect of interventions designed to conserve household energy use.
Given the findings from her PhD research, Lauren introduces five key principles that should be used when designing interventions to encourage the uptake of energy efficiency technologies. Both Wokje and Lauren conclude that in each and every case, 1 – the specific barriers to change for that target group and problem need to be understood first, and 2 – that a combination of approaches should be used.
This document discusses strategies for increasing community engagement and service delivery in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. It identifies four key learning streams or strategies that have been effective in achieving community-level impact: 1) strategies to engage community structures and partners and increase social capital, 2) strategies to ensure delivery of equitable, quality community services with continuous quality improvement, 3) increased access to and coverage of quality MNCH services at the community level, and 4) reduced mortality and improved health among marginalized mothers, newborns, and children under 5. Specific effective strategies discussed include people's institutions in Bangladesh, quality improvement collaboratives in Benin, sectorization in Peru, and community action cycles in Zamb
Sustainable development — particularly environmental sustainability — is a central tenet of the World Bank Group’s strategy. IEG’s new report Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) provides a timely review of the Bank Group portfolio performance and examines how the Bank Group has mainstreamed and measured projects with potential environmental benefits.
Between FY08-10 and FY15-17, the overall share of projects or components with potential environmental benefits has increased 4 percentage points for the World Bank and IFC. However, projects with "Clean" and "Resilient" components, such as climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, have risen, while support for "Green" project components has decreased, including in some traditional areas of environmental sustainability.
View the presentation from the live discussion.
The HEARTH Act makes significant changes to programs that fund services and housing for people experiencing homelessness. It consolidates the Supportive Housing, Shelter Plus Care, and Moderate Rehabilitation/SRO programs into a single Continuum of Care program. The Emergency Solutions Grants program is expanded to include activities from the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program. Communities will need to measure lengths of homeless episodes, returns to homelessness, and the number of people who become homeless. The definition of homelessness is broadened to include people who are losing housing or living in motels/doubled-up situations.
Health Datapalooza 2013: Transforming Benefits Design - Sherri ZinkHealth Data Consortium
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Transforming Benefits Design and Delivery Through the Analysis and Exchange of Personal Health Data
Moderator:
Myrl Weinberg, Chief Executive Officer, National Health Council
Speakers:
Martha Wofford, Vice President / Head of Consumer Platform, Aetna
Sherri Zink, Vice President, Medical Informatics, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
New products and services are making it easier for people to gather information about their health, as well as share this information with providers and other health care stakeholders. Learn how health plans are looking at the future of consumer engagement and how new emerging sources and types of health data are being used to prevent and manage disease more effectively.
This session is eligible for continuing education credit.
This document outlines gaps in Myanmar's health system and proposes strategies to address them through strengthening service delivery, health program coordination, and human resource management. It identifies issues such as low access to maternal and child health services in hard to reach areas due to infrastructure and logistical barriers, lack of guidelines for coordinating different health programs, and imbalances in the distribution and skills of health workers. The proposed response involves developing a costed, coordinated health plan, improving referral systems, training and deploying more community health workers, expanding facilities, ensuring adequate supplies and equipment, and building management and research capacities over 4 years across 180 townships. The overall goal is achieving more equitable, efficient and effective delivery of essential health services to support reductions
Lessons learnt towards building pathways for innovation: India
By Apoorve Khandelwal, CEEW India
Innovation investment for impact
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 14, 2021
This document summarizes research on community adaptation planning (CAP) in Nepal. The research found that while CAP helped build some local capacity and collaboration, it was not fully inclusive or participatory. Specifically:
- CAP benefited the community as a whole but less than 10% of funds targeted vulnerable households. Decision-making was dominated by elites.
- Local institutions collaborated more due to CAP but links to district and national levels were lacking.
- Most households saw CAP as partly successful in empowering locals, but there were concerns about inclusiveness in decision-making and benefit sharing.
- To be more effective, CAP needs more inclusive local structures, supportive policies, and approaches that empower vulnerable households in
This document outlines a framework for population health management. It discusses fundamentals of population health including individual behavior, community health outcomes, and managing population health. It describes benefits of population health management like prevention and chronic disease management. Critical access hospitals can play a role as conveners by collaborating with local health departments and EMS providers. They can assist with developing population health plans and focus community engagement on key local health issues. The document provides templates for community engagement plans and implementation timelines.
Homelessness and "Housing First" Cost-Benefit PresentationAndy Carswell
This presentation covers an issue addressed at the Society of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Fall 2011. The topic of homelessness is discussed, particularly the efforts of homeless service providers in implementing an early-intervention "Housing First" approach, in which the external costs of homelessness such as drug abuse and incarceration are diminished through the provision of stable housing in the early stages of a homeless or near-homeless household. This approach was popularized by Sam Tsemberis a few decades ago, and its practical benefits were illuminated in the popular press in the mid-2000s in Malcolm Gladwell's New York Times magazine essay, "Million Dollar Murray".
This presentation helps to enunciate some of these costs and benefits even clearer , including secondary and tertiary benefits that had been either previously undisclosed or underreported. Much of these costs and benefits were derived and validated from conversations within the Athens homelessness provider community by the presenters.
The document discusses a collaborative program called My Sporting Chance that aims to reduce childhood obesity in Easington, England. The program provides 10 weeks of physical activity sessions for children above the 95th percentile for BMI and their families. It has led to nearly 70% of children reducing their BMI and 74% reducing their waist circumference. The program will become a charity to expand its reach and partnerships with schools and organizations.
Using evidence from Ghana's LEAP 1000 program, Transfer Project's Richard de Groot explores whether cash transfers targeted to children in the first 1,000 days of life can improve their nutritional status.
Presented as part of EPRC's What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children conference in Kampala, Uganda in September 2018.
This document provides an introduction to quantitative impact evaluation methods. It discusses why impact evaluations are important, how to design an evaluation, and common evaluation tools and methodologies. Key points include: impact evaluations measure a program's causal effects, require a comparison group to estimate counterfactual outcomes, and use methods like randomization, matching, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-differences to construct valid comparisons. The goals of evaluations are to measure impacts, assess cost-effectiveness, and explain which program components are most effective.
Overview of CNCS Priorities and Performance Measuresserviceresources
The document discusses CNCS's performance measurement framework, which aims to align programs to national priorities and make CNCS a more performance-driven agency. It outlines CNCS's strategic plan goals of increasing national service impact, strengthening programs, maximizing value, and improving operations. Key parts of the framework include agency-wide priority measures linked to strategic goals, grantee measures, and an annual performance measurement cycle.
The document discusses the Wellness Improvement Network's Health Improvement Programme, which aims to address challenges related to chronic illness in workforces. It notes that chronic diseases reduce productivity and sustainability through increased absenteeism. The programme focuses on lifestyle changes and treatment compliance, which account for 50-75% of health costs. It utilizes a data-driven approach and benchmarks from the Wellness Council of America to craft interventions, ensure management support, and evaluate outcomes. The programme's technology platform provides comprehensive live reporting to drive compliance, monitor lifestyle changes, and reveal opportunities for high returns on healthcare investments.
Children's Services Council of Broward County, Systemic Model of Preventioncscbroward
Research Analyst Laura Ganci and Program Specialist Melissa Stanley of the Children's Services Council of Broward County, hosted a webinar for the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association on Implementing a Collaborative Approach to Child Welfare.
The Children's Services Council of Broward County provides leadership, advocacy and resources necessary to enhance children's lives and empower them to become responsible, productive adults. To learn more, visit us online at www.cscbroward.org and on social media at www.facebook.com/cscbroward; www.twitter.com/cscbroward; and www.youtube.com/cscbroward
Health care costs are rising rapidly, making it difficult for providers to ignore costs. Hospitals and doctors must find ways to provide high-value care that balances reducing costs with improving patient outcomes. The Affordable Care Act aims to expand insurance coverage, so providers need tools to deliver cost-conscious care that creates value for both patients and the healthcare system.
The document discusses lessons learned and recommendations from a five-state consortium working to improve care coordination and service linkages to support healthy child development. Key lessons included developing processes to improve provider communication, using quality improvement to test new models, and incorporating formal parent involvement. Recommendations focused on starting with primary care and early intervention programs, considering automated data integration models, and gathering stakeholder feedback to improve forms and coordination.
The presentation summarizes the effectiveness and lessons of the World Bank Group's support for health services in client countries, as outlined in IEG's evaluation.
This document discusses evaluation practices and challenges in violence prevention. It provides examples of evaluations conducted on child sexual abuse prevention programs in Massachusetts and shaken baby syndrome prevention programs. It also discusses using evaluation to promote sustainability, dissemination, and teaching evaluation practices to social workers. Key challenges discussed include understanding stakeholder culture and complexity in real-world settings.
Sustainable management of commons to boost synergies: A case study on India
By Wei Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Boosting synergies and managing trade-offs in food systems
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 21, 2021
Dr Wokje Abrahamse of Otago University and Dr Lauren Christie of Victoria University of Wellington present their views of research theory and engagement principles. Wokje introduces the theoretical barriers to change and discusses the results from a systematic review of 38 studies to determine the effect of interventions designed to conserve household energy use.
Given the findings from her PhD research, Lauren introduces five key principles that should be used when designing interventions to encourage the uptake of energy efficiency technologies. Both Wokje and Lauren conclude that in each and every case, 1 – the specific barriers to change for that target group and problem need to be understood first, and 2 – that a combination of approaches should be used.
This document discusses strategies for increasing community engagement and service delivery in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. It identifies four key learning streams or strategies that have been effective in achieving community-level impact: 1) strategies to engage community structures and partners and increase social capital, 2) strategies to ensure delivery of equitable, quality community services with continuous quality improvement, 3) increased access to and coverage of quality MNCH services at the community level, and 4) reduced mortality and improved health among marginalized mothers, newborns, and children under 5. Specific effective strategies discussed include people's institutions in Bangladesh, quality improvement collaboratives in Benin, sectorization in Peru, and community action cycles in Zamb
Sustainable development — particularly environmental sustainability — is a central tenet of the World Bank Group’s strategy. IEG’s new report Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (RAP) provides a timely review of the Bank Group portfolio performance and examines how the Bank Group has mainstreamed and measured projects with potential environmental benefits.
Between FY08-10 and FY15-17, the overall share of projects or components with potential environmental benefits has increased 4 percentage points for the World Bank and IFC. However, projects with "Clean" and "Resilient" components, such as climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, have risen, while support for "Green" project components has decreased, including in some traditional areas of environmental sustainability.
View the presentation from the live discussion.
The HEARTH Act makes significant changes to programs that fund services and housing for people experiencing homelessness. It consolidates the Supportive Housing, Shelter Plus Care, and Moderate Rehabilitation/SRO programs into a single Continuum of Care program. The Emergency Solutions Grants program is expanded to include activities from the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program. Communities will need to measure lengths of homeless episodes, returns to homelessness, and the number of people who become homeless. The definition of homelessness is broadened to include people who are losing housing or living in motels/doubled-up situations.
Health Datapalooza 2013: Transforming Benefits Design - Sherri ZinkHealth Data Consortium
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Transforming Benefits Design and Delivery Through the Analysis and Exchange of Personal Health Data
Moderator:
Myrl Weinberg, Chief Executive Officer, National Health Council
Speakers:
Martha Wofford, Vice President / Head of Consumer Platform, Aetna
Sherri Zink, Vice President, Medical Informatics, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
New products and services are making it easier for people to gather information about their health, as well as share this information with providers and other health care stakeholders. Learn how health plans are looking at the future of consumer engagement and how new emerging sources and types of health data are being used to prevent and manage disease more effectively.
This session is eligible for continuing education credit.
This document outlines gaps in Myanmar's health system and proposes strategies to address them through strengthening service delivery, health program coordination, and human resource management. It identifies issues such as low access to maternal and child health services in hard to reach areas due to infrastructure and logistical barriers, lack of guidelines for coordinating different health programs, and imbalances in the distribution and skills of health workers. The proposed response involves developing a costed, coordinated health plan, improving referral systems, training and deploying more community health workers, expanding facilities, ensuring adequate supplies and equipment, and building management and research capacities over 4 years across 180 townships. The overall goal is achieving more equitable, efficient and effective delivery of essential health services to support reductions
Lessons learnt towards building pathways for innovation: India
By Apoorve Khandelwal, CEEW India
Innovation investment for impact
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 14, 2021
This document summarizes research on community adaptation planning (CAP) in Nepal. The research found that while CAP helped build some local capacity and collaboration, it was not fully inclusive or participatory. Specifically:
- CAP benefited the community as a whole but less than 10% of funds targeted vulnerable households. Decision-making was dominated by elites.
- Local institutions collaborated more due to CAP but links to district and national levels were lacking.
- Most households saw CAP as partly successful in empowering locals, but there were concerns about inclusiveness in decision-making and benefit sharing.
- To be more effective, CAP needs more inclusive local structures, supportive policies, and approaches that empower vulnerable households in
This document outlines a framework for population health management. It discusses fundamentals of population health including individual behavior, community health outcomes, and managing population health. It describes benefits of population health management like prevention and chronic disease management. Critical access hospitals can play a role as conveners by collaborating with local health departments and EMS providers. They can assist with developing population health plans and focus community engagement on key local health issues. The document provides templates for community engagement plans and implementation timelines.
Homelessness and "Housing First" Cost-Benefit PresentationAndy Carswell
This presentation covers an issue addressed at the Society of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Fall 2011. The topic of homelessness is discussed, particularly the efforts of homeless service providers in implementing an early-intervention "Housing First" approach, in which the external costs of homelessness such as drug abuse and incarceration are diminished through the provision of stable housing in the early stages of a homeless or near-homeless household. This approach was popularized by Sam Tsemberis a few decades ago, and its practical benefits were illuminated in the popular press in the mid-2000s in Malcolm Gladwell's New York Times magazine essay, "Million Dollar Murray".
This presentation helps to enunciate some of these costs and benefits even clearer , including secondary and tertiary benefits that had been either previously undisclosed or underreported. Much of these costs and benefits were derived and validated from conversations within the Athens homelessness provider community by the presenters.
The document discusses a collaborative program called My Sporting Chance that aims to reduce childhood obesity in Easington, England. The program provides 10 weeks of physical activity sessions for children above the 95th percentile for BMI and their families. It has led to nearly 70% of children reducing their BMI and 74% reducing their waist circumference. The program will become a charity to expand its reach and partnerships with schools and organizations.
Using evidence from Ghana's LEAP 1000 program, Transfer Project's Richard de Groot explores whether cash transfers targeted to children in the first 1,000 days of life can improve their nutritional status.
Presented as part of EPRC's What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children conference in Kampala, Uganda in September 2018.
This document provides an introduction to quantitative impact evaluation methods. It discusses why impact evaluations are important, how to design an evaluation, and common evaluation tools and methodologies. Key points include: impact evaluations measure a program's causal effects, require a comparison group to estimate counterfactual outcomes, and use methods like randomization, matching, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-differences to construct valid comparisons. The goals of evaluations are to measure impacts, assess cost-effectiveness, and explain which program components are most effective.
Propensity score matching (PSM) is a quasi-experimental technique used to estimate causal treatment effects from observational data. It involves matching treated observations to untreated observations based on propensity scores, which represent the probability of receiving treatment given observed covariates. Key assumptions are that treatment assignment is independent of outcomes conditional on covariates, and there is sufficient overlap in covariate distributions between treated and untreated groups. PSM was used to estimate the impact of piped water access on child health in rural India by matching households based on village characteristics, assets, and education levels, though some important behavioral factors were unobserved.
The document outlines the components of impact evaluation including needs assessment, theory of change, process evaluation, impact evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis. It discusses framing impact evaluation through a theory of change and using randomized evaluations as the gold standard for measuring a program's causal impact. Randomized evaluations compare outcomes between participants who are randomly assigned to a treatment group or control group to estimate the counterfactual.
The Parent Aid Program aims to promote safety, strengthen families, provide individualized services, and foster quality of life for youth and families. The program serves families at risk of child removal, in crisis, or struggling with issues like poverty or substance abuse by providing supervised visitations, resources, parenting skills, and household management skills. It takes an empowerment-based approach to help clients develop self-determination, advocacy skills, and access community resources to overcome barriers. The program will be implemented through an agency with existing supports and a small staff, and aims to work with community partners to reunify families and improve quality of life through a more proactive approach.
Analyzing the Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Benefit Orphans and Vuln...MEASURE Evaluation
This document analyzes the cost-effectiveness of interventions that benefit orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya and Tanzania. It finds that:
1) Home visiting programs can effectively improve children's self-esteem and social isolation at relatively low costs per beneficiary.
2) School-based HIV education can substantially increase HIV knowledge among children for as little as $0.09 per incremental knowledge gain.
3) Food support for households can reduce the probability of food insecurity by over 40% for just $0.74 per household.
Presentation is about the uniqueness of Implementation Research and Role of the Government, specially in Indian context of health programme implementation.
This document summarizes the key findings of a multi-country evaluation of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programs by UNICEF. The evaluation assessed access to services, quality of service delivery, and use of nutrition information. It found that while CMAM has improved treatment of severe acute malnutrition, greater efforts are needed to integrate services, strengthen community outreach, improve data collection and coverage surveys, and reduce costs to scale up prevention. The evaluation provides recommendations for UNICEF and partners to further support national governments to address both treatment and prevention of malnutrition through strengthened health systems and community resources.
Acting Early, Changing Lives: How prevention and early action saves money and...Benevolent Society
The Benevolent Society has released a report to mark its 200th Anniversary that sounds a serious warning about the wellbeing of Australia’s children, and unsustainable future costs to fix social problems which can be prevented by more investment in support for families during children’s early years. http://bit.ly/acting_early_report
“In dealing with increasing problems such as crime, obesity, anti-social behaviour, child abuse and mental illness, our governments are stuck in a cycle of reacting too late when it’s more costly and less effective,” said The Benevolent Society CEO Anne Hollonds.
The report, Acting Early, Changing Lives: How prevention and early action saves money and improves wellbeing was commissioned by The Benevolent Society, Australia’s first and longest running not-for-profit organisation, and prepared by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. http://bit.ly/acting_early_report
I gave this talk at a Nigeria Health Summit in March 2016. It was an introduction to impact evaluation: what it is, when it's a good idea, and some possible approaches.
This document discusses the benefits of evidence-based parenting programs, such as Triple P, for addressing behavioral issues in children. It notes that Triple P has been shown to reduce problem behaviors by 37.5% and improve parental well-being. The document advocates for implementing Triple P and similar programs on a large scale to help more families and prevent issues from escalating. It argues that parenting support should be integrated across sectors and made widely accessible to improve outcomes for children and families.
CFBSA PowerPoint Presentation FINAL VERSIONFred Kass
The document outlines several potential frameworks for evaluating the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona's feed the line programs and tracking outcomes over the long term. It discusses applying the RE-AIM framework which focuses on reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance. It also discusses a results-based accountability approach which starts with defining desired outcomes and works backward to identify programs and measures. Both approaches emphasize using data to drive decision making and involve partners. The document does not recommend one framework over the other.
This document outlines the key steps to conduct an impact evaluation of a school feeding program in Mali in 7-8 steps. It involves engaging stakeholders, defining relevant evaluation questions, building a theory of change, defining indicators, designing the evaluation using a randomized controlled trial across treatment and control groups, determining an appropriate sample size, conducting a household survey, and analyzing the collected data. The goal is to evaluate the program's impact on education, nutrition, local agriculture, and welfare outcomes.
The document discusses issues facing foster youth who age out of the foster care system at 18. It finds that these youth often experience negative outcomes like homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration at much higher rates than the general population. It evaluates the need for a program to better support foster youth as they transition to independence. The goal would be to implement a new program that helps prepare foster youth for adulthood through extended care and services, leading to improved and more productive lives.
Impact Evaluation Training with AERC: China Cash Transfer Programme Technical...The Transfer Project
A hypothetical technical proposal for China's conditional cash transfer programme from our impact evaluation training with AERC in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2019.
Ashu Handa's (UNC) presentation at the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning's (CEDIL) project design clinic held in Oxford (UK) on 26 February 2020.
Rachel Nugent
POLICY SEMINAR
Virtual Event - The New Nutrition Reality: Time to Recognize and Tackle the Double Burden of Malnutrition!
DEC 1, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:15 AM EST
This document provides an overview of impact evaluation and randomized control trials. It discusses J-PAL, an organization that uses randomized evaluations to answer policy questions and reduce poverty. J-PAL has offices around the world and works on various policy areas. The presentation then discusses why evaluation is important to determine what programs are effective and how to improve them. It provides an example of evaluating a water and sanitation program in Kenya, covering needs assessment, program theory, process evaluation, and using a randomized control trial to conduct impact evaluation and compare cost-effectiveness. The presentation emphasizes that randomized evaluations can provide the most robust evidence of a program's impact when certain criteria are met.
Evaluating and Developing the Early Education Pilot for Two Year OldsMike Blamires
- The document summarizes an evaluation of a UK pilot program that provided free early education to disadvantaged two-year-olds.
- The evaluation found the pilot successfully targeted disadvantaged children but around half of the control group also received childcare.
- Children who attended higher-quality settings saw positive impacts on language and relationships, but most provision was only adequate.
- Based on the findings, the national program was expanded and eligibility criteria were standardized to focus more on economic disadvantage. Quality standards were also strengthened.
Similar to Impact Evaluation Training with AERC: Ghana's LEAP Programme Technical Research Proposal (20)
Using Evidence to Inform Program Reform in the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pr...The Transfer Project
The document discusses policy options for strengthening the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program's approach to addressing lifecycle vulnerabilities. It summarizes that:
1) While the program indirectly reaches vulnerable groups like the elderly, disabled, and female-headed households, children under 5 are not directly supported.
2) Two recent impact studies suggest the program could be more effective in addressing school retention and lifecycle vulnerabilities.
3) Policy options presented include directly targeting vulnerable categories through a categorical approach or providing additional support for children under 5 and young mothers within beneficiary households.
The document discusses policy options for strengthening the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program's approach to addressing lifecycle vulnerabilities. It summarizes that:
1) While the program indirectly reaches vulnerable groups like the elderly, disabled, and female-headed households, children under 5 are not directly supported.
2) Two recent impact studies suggest the program could be more effective in addressing school retention and lifecycle vulnerabilities.
3) Policy options presented include directly targeting vulnerable categories through a categorical approach or providing additional support for children under 5 and young mothers within beneficiary households.
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The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
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General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
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North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
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South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
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2. The
Intervention
The LEAP program is an unconditional cash transfer
targeted to ultra-poor households in Ghana with
certain demographic characteristics:
• Households caring for an orphan
• Elderly headed households
• Households with severely disabled member
• Household with an infant or pregnant mother
This intervention is an expansion of the LEAP
programme to the unreached communities and
government wants to exploit that to conduct an
impact evaluation.
3. Some
Background
An impact evaluation was previously carried
out on the initial rollout of the programme, This
previous evaluation employed a discontinuity
design and only measured impact on young
mothers.
4. KeyQuestions
to be
Answered
This Evaluation is prospective in nature
The key question here is “What is the effect of the
LEAP programme on the typical beneficiary?’
• Our Specific Objectives are to:
• Measure the impact of LEAP on Household food security
(household level)
• Measure the impact of the LEAP on strengthened
livelihood (household level)
• Measure impact of LEAP on child school enrollment
(children)
5. Conceptual
Framework
The theory of change shows how the intended
intervention is expected to affect the outcomes
of interest.
In terms of food security, it is expected that an
increase in income as a result of the intervention
will immediately affect consumption on food
following the Maslow hierarchy of needs
6. Conceptual
Framework
For strengthened livelihoods, the pathway is
expected to run from the availability of extra
resources for investment into other income-
generating activities like starting a business,
adopting improved farming mechanisms and/ or
acquiring assets which result in strengthened
livelihood.
For child school enrollment, the intervention is
expected to reduce the need to have the child
participating in labour and so the child is likely to
be enrolled in school.
7. CashTransfer
Food
consumption
expenditure
Investment
• Fertilizer use Productivity income
• Involvement in non-farm activities
• Crop/livestock production
Food Security
Strengthened
Livelihood
Child School
Enrollment
Conceptual Framework
Moderators: Prices,Weather variability, Access to Infrastructure, Community Literacy Level
8. Identification
Strategy : How
to identify the
Evaluation
Sample
Government is not willing to do an RCT and will have a
predetermined criteria for assigning eligible units for
treatment.
The design to be employed is a Longitudinal Propensity
Score Matching
First get the list of communities not yet selected for
treatment in this expansion phase.
Draw the potential comparison communities from
this list.
The comparison communities must be similar to
the treatment communities that have been
selected:
Geographical location: if possible same
district: proximity but not too close to avoid
spillovers, contamination, etc.
9. Primary
Indicators
The Indicators:
Household food security:
Household number of meals per
day (continuous)
Worry about food in past 7 days
(binary)
Child school enrollment:
Strengthened Livelihood:
Asset acquisition, non-farm
business ventures or diversity of
crop/livestock farming
10. Execution
Strategy
Use same data collection tool that will be used in selecting eligible households
for treatment to also collect poverty data and demographic characteristics on
all households in potential comparison communities
Use the predetermined proxy means score to identify eligible comparison
households.
Propensity scores will be generated using the observable characteristics
employed in determining the proxy means scores.
Proceed to do propensity score matching between the potential beneficiary
and comparison households to determine the region of common support.
• This will give us the actual households to be evaluated: evaluation
sample
• evaluation sample will thus be made up of treatment households
and comparison household that are similar on observable
characteristics
11. Longitudinal Propensity Score Matching will be used to evaluate the impact of the program
and the estimation will be DID regression on the outcome variable against the program,
time, their interaction and some important covariates.
Model:
𝑌𝑖 = 𝛼0 + 𝛼1 𝑃 + 𝛼2 𝑇 + 𝛼3 𝑃 ∗ 𝑇 +𝛼4 𝑋𝑖 + 𝜀𝑖
𝑌𝑖: 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 {𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦, child school enrollment, strengthened livelihoods)
𝑃: 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒, (𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒: 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑛 − 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡)
𝑇: 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒,(𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒: 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒)
𝑋: 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 & 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠
𝜀: 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚
Depending on the compliance of the treated and control groups the estimated impact will
be either ITT or ATT.
12. Strengths and
weaknesses of
Chosen
Strategy
Strengths
Imposition of common support ensures comparability
Reduction in potential spillover effects and contamination due to
distance between communities
Weaknesses
Possibility of lack of common support and resultant lack of power.
Matching is only done on observable characteristics
The estimate is only as good as the magnitude of hidden bias from
unobservable characteristics
Longitudinal Propensity Score Matching
Design
13. Duration
We propose an evaluation period of 18months after roll out of the
programme
The period will allow the intervention to show a measurable
impact.