A cost-effective project design in developing countries requires that a detailed preliminary territorial analysis is conducted in order to select the optimal sites for intervention and adequately plan the fieldwork.
6 Four researchers each undertook fieldwork between February 2009 and July 2009, in an intervention and control SU in each of the four regions included in TRACS.
The site used an ongoing data management and fieldwork 'feedback loop' to monitor intervention implementation and adaptations, and weekly review and planning meetings between field staff and senior management were central to ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of adaptation delivery.
Ethiopia had 39 trials registered at the time of fieldwork; a breakdown of these by intervention and sponsor is shown in figure 1.
We have recently described the development, internal validation and fieldwork testing of the Identification and Interventions for Dementia in Elderly Africans (IDEA) study cognitive screening tool [ 6].
In discussing these challenges, we rely on data collected from our fieldwork with men in a health-related gender-transformative intervention carried out across numerous provinces in South Africa.
Not only had interventions such as dimming gone largely unnoticed, but in informal fieldwork interviews in areas with part-night lighting, few reported that reductions in lighting had made any difference to their everyday lives.
Produce documents for the study: operational manuals for fieldwork, and forms for registering measurements and details of the intervention.
During fieldwork, several participants noted that relationships were better, partly due to this intervention.
In Ghana, we selected providers in Kumasi and Accra, the two regions in which BlueStar operated at the time of fieldwork, based on their selection for early incorporation into the AHME interventions.
