Annual MLE Activities in India (Uttar Pradesh)
The Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project, the evaluation component of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, promotes evidence-based decision-making in the design of integrated family planning and reproductive health interventions. Implemented by country consortia in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal, the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative aims to improve the health of the urban poor.
The MLE project collaborates with the four country consortia to measure the impact of their programs, use monitoring and evaluation results to adjust program activities and identify promising best practices.
The following are specific activities conducted by MLE in India.
See also MLE activities in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.
2011 MLE Activities in India (Uttar Pradesh)
- Held meetings with UHI in the 4 intervention cities on using the baseline data from India, focusing on key city-specific indicators
- Held a workshop with UHI, the Population Foundation of India and Futures Institute on using the baseline data from India to inform program design
- Held joint city- and state-level dissemination events of the India baseline data with government and other key stakeholders
- Completed city-level and multi-city reports summarizing baseline data findings from India
- Held a Monitoring and Evaluation workshop for Monitoring Officers and other staff at UHI
- Presented two posters at the 2011 Population Association of America Annual Meeting:
- Presented four posters at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar:
- Does Women’s Autonomy Influence their Contraceptive Use? A Perspective from the Urban Poor in India
- Gender Sensitive Men Influence Family Planning Use: Evidence from Urban India
- Family Planning Use and Missed Opportunities for Service Provision in Urban Uttar Pradesh, India
- Provider Imposed Restriction to Clients’ Access to Family Planning in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Oral presentation at APHA:
- Using the Theory of Normative Social Behavior (TNSB) to Understand Women’s Use of Modern Contraceptive Methods In Uttar Pradesh, India
- Poster presentation at APHA:
- Investigating the Association between Facility-Level Quality of Family Planning Services & Contraceptive Use in Urban Uttar Pradesh, India
- Developed a Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy plan for India in collaboration with UHI
- Conducted analysis for a paper on men’s gender equitable attitudes and contraceptive use
- Discussed and reviewed a cost inputs system for cost effectiveness measures/studies with UHI
- Held multiple MLE/UHI midline evaluation planning meetings in New Delhi, India and Chapel Hill, NC to identify UHI key programmatic questions and to design a midterm evaluation to answer these questions
- Undertook intensive preparation activities for the midterm survey. These included:
- Identification of in-country research partner
- Managing the contract and budget finalization for the survey agency
- Submitted renewal paperwork for appropriate in-country and US-based ethic review boards
- Working with the survey agency to establish the midterm timeline and determine the structure of the midterm survey roll-out
- Pre-test and finalization of procedures and tools for tracking of longitudinal respondents in the midterm survey
- Held multiple joint survey instrument review meetings with UHI in preparation for the midterm survey
- Adapted draft midterm tools, consent forms and scripts for the midterm survey for household data collection (HH tool, women’s tool) and SDP data collection (facility audit, client exit interview) to be sure they were adequately capturing the key programmatic question identified by UHI
2010 MLE Activities in India (Uttar Pradesh)
- Collected facility-level baselinel data
- Completed data entry for facility- and individual-level baseline data
- Hosted annual Urban RH Initiative meeting in Agra in September 2010
- Completed tabulation of individual- and facility-level baseline data
- Presented “Family Planning Use Among Urban Poor Women in Uttar Pradesh” at the 2010 American Public Health Association meeting
- Presented “Family Planning Use Among Urban Poor Men in Uttar Pradesh” at the 2010 Asian Population Association meeting
- Completed baseline data collection
- Completed baseline interviews among key stakeholders
2009 MLE Activities in India (Uttar Pradesh)
- Created an in-country advisory board
- Conducted baseline key stakeholder interviews
- Chose in-country research partner; initiated knowledge-exchange agenda
- Trained data collection research assistants
- Pretested the baseline survey instruments
- Began data collection
