Sharing the limitations of the evaluation design and implementation may also help others further strengthen evaluation of health training programmes in the future.
Certain development funders are committed to " strengthening the evidence base for what works or does not work in international development as well as developing and strengthening evaluation research capacity within the UK and internationally" [ 49].
The potential for health RCS evaluation frameworks to strengthen evaluation capacity, to improve the evaluation culture within organisations, and to facilitate sharing of funders' approaches to health RCS evaluations, needs to be exploited so that meaningful evaluation findings can be generated jointly by health RCS funders and the organisations that they fund.
The study was not powered to detect differences in mortality, but detailed data on body composition, functional outcomes, viral load, and immune recovery strengthened the evaluation of supplementation effects.
In the tests for flexural strengthening evaluation, the basalt fiber strengthening improved both the yielding and the ultimate strength of the beam specimen up to 27% depending on the number of layers applied.
However, the Panel agrees with the EO's self-assessment that improvements are needed in the areas of (1) strengthening evaluation capacity at the decentralized levels (regional/country offices, partner countries), and (2) disseminating evaluation results and lessons more effectively.
Moreover, this process will help to clear any lingering questions about defining what is meant by "integration" for any given intervention that is implemented and evaluated, and thereby strengthen the evaluation and the resulting evidence base.
We currently offer evaluation support for the following three surveys: 1) Statewide Data Collection 2) Strengthening Families Evaluation and 3) Parenting A Second Time Around (PASTA) Evaluation.
The development of the Global Evaluation Reports Oversight System (GEROS) is one of the ways the Evaluation Office and Regional Offices work jointly to strengthen the evaluation function.
The Evaluation Office and Regional Offices work jointly to strengthen the evaluation function in a number of key areas: enhancing strategic planning of evaluations and management responses; strengthening internal evaluation capacity; and developing national evaluation capacity.
