Measurement, learning, and evaluation.
The dynamic environment of VMMC demand sets a high bar for measurement, learning, and evaluation strategies.
The fourth component underpins the other components, since measurement, learning, and evaluation are foundational for all stages of demand generation.
We present our findings and recommendations using a framework with 4 components: insight development; intervention design; implementation and coordination to achieve scale; and measurement, learning, and evaluation.
Our illustrative VMMC demand generation framework has 4 components: (1) insight development, (2) intervention design, (3) implementation and coordination to achieve scale, and (4) measurement, learning, and evaluation.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/216/prepub The IDEAS project at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is a Measurement Learning and Evaluation grant awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
National governments, working with donors and other partners, can look to the components of demand generation described in this paper insight development, implementation design, implementation and coordination for scale, and measurement, learning, and evaluation as foundations for their evidence-based strategy for increasing VMMC uptake.
The household survey, implemented as part of a measurement, learning and evaluation grant to the IDEAS project (Informed Decisions for Actions in maternal and newborn health), at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was designed to measure population level coverage of newborn behaviours and practices, including immediate breastfeeding and delayed bathing.
The aims, challenges, and solutions concerning the large-scale assessment of early child capacities and skills as well as the measurements of learning environments that impact early developmental progress are presented and discussed.
