A recent review showed that monitoring and evaluation, with adjustments to the programme based on these findings, is essential both for effective scale-up and long-term programme effectiveness at scale [ 27].
Mark Lorey serves as Vice President for Child Development and Programme Effectiveness in World Vision International.
Mark Lorey, Vice President for Child Development and Programme Effectiveness in World Vision International.
It is a common problem that interventions of this type are often established with no equivalent control group on which to base an evaluation of programme effectiveness.
Traditional systematic reviewing methods tend to focus on measurement and reporting of programme effectiveness, or cost effectiveness in the case of health economic literature.
The method adopted here is a useful addition to the real world policy evaluation tool kit, where programme effectiveness needs to be judged in the absence of an established control group.
The evaluation was intended to achieve the following outcomes: 1) a description of FWI (including outcomes and mechanisms); 2) understanding of perceptions of FWI's effectiveness; and 3) insight into factors influencing programme effectiveness.
In Bangladesh, for example, we found that an increase in indirect costs during a behaviour change programme – engaging NGOs to help train community health promoters – actually improved overall programme effectiveness as more households adopted good hygiene practices, such as hand-washing.
The next three lines, 2a) to 2c), seem to suggest that duration analysis is more optimistic about programme effectiveness than matching approaches are.
First, we can control for different study characteristics when investigating which ALMP types are associated with significant or insignificant impact findings, simultaneously addressing such issues as methodological differences or changes in programme effectiveness over time.
Some authors thus favour using a retrospective pretest data design to measure programme effectiveness (Nimon et al. 2011; Lam and Bengo 2003) which is easily applicable to inventories measuring learning strategies.
