New M&E Resources and Opportunities

As always, please let us know if you hear of new resources, trainings, consultancies or funding opportunities so we can share with the larger group.

Best Regards,
The MLE Staff
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Sample questions that Reality √ Version 2 can answer include:

    * If past contraceptive prevalence trends continue, where will we be in 10 years?
    * Is the new goal for modern method prevalence in the next five years realistic?  What would be the impact of reaching that goal?
    * The national program is adding Sino-implant (II) to the method mix. If we have 100,000 adopters a year, how many removals can we expect annually?

Why Use Reality √?
Reality √ fills a critical gap in generating data necessary for evidence-based planning and advocacy in family planning programs: The ability to quantify contraceptive goals and their corresponding numbers of users and commodities is fundamental to accurate planning for contraceptive service delivery. Reality √ can be also used for advocacy, helping users advocate for resources to achieve family planning goals by illustrating the inputs required as well as the potential impact of realizing them. 

The Reality √ tool is available to be downloaded at: http://www.respond-project.org/pages/pubs/tools.php

Impact Evaluation in Practice: A New Guide
by Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch
The World Bank 2011

Available online at: http://bit.ly/e4iiX1

Impact Evaluation in Practice presents a non-technical overview of how to design and use impact evaluation to build more effective programs to alleviate poverty and improve people’s lives. Aimed at policymakers, project managers and development practitioners, the book offers experts and non-experts alike a review of why impact evaluations are important and how they are designed and implemented. The goal is to further the ability of policymakers and practitioners to use impact evaluations to help make policy decisions based on evidence of what works the most effectively.

The book is accompanied by a set of training material -- including videos and power point presentations -- developed for the “Turning Promises to Evidence” workshop series of the Office of the Chief Economist for Human Development. It is a reference and self-learning tool for policy-makers interested in using impact evaluations and was developed to serve as a manual for introductory courses on impact evaluation as well as a teaching resource for trainers in academic and policy circles.

Within the series of monthly live webinars on "Developing national capacities for country M&E systems" with authors of the new book “From policies to results. Developing national capacities for country M&E systems”, UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo, in partnership with UNDP, WFP, UNIFEM and ILO, are pleased to announce the eighth webinar with Hallie Preskill, Executive Director, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Center, FSG Social Impact Advisor & former President of AEA, and Alexey Kuzmin, President of Process Consulting Company & former Chair, IPEN, on “Exploring Effective Strategies for Facilitating Evaluation Capacity Development”.

Detailed agenda and instructions for logging in are available at: http://mymande.org/sites/default/files/preskill_kuzmin_feb22_2011.pdf

Webinars are free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments. You just need a computer, high-speed internet connection thru cables, a headphone and the latest Java program installed. You do NOT need to register in advance.

CONSULTANCY 1: TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE QUALITATIVE DATA IN THE STUDY TO ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF THE COMMUNITY USE OF MISOPROSTOL AND INTERMITTENT UTERINE MASSAGE TO PREVENT POSTPARTUM HEAMORRHAGE: the goal of the consultancy is to provide qualitative information on the safety, feasibility and effectiveness of community use of misoprostol and intermittent uterine massage for the prevention of post partum hemorrhage in home births in Uganda based on the protocol of the study.

CONSULTANCY 1: TO ANALYZE QUANTITATIVE DATA IN THE STUDY TO ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF THE COMMUNITY USE OF MISOPROSTOL AND INTERMITTENT UTERINE MASSAGE TO PREVENT POSTPARTUM HEAMORRHAGE:
The goal of the consultancy is to provide information from findings of the quantitative analysis on the data collected in the study on the safety, feasibility and effectiveness of community use of misoprostol and intermittent uterine massage for the prevention of post partum hemorrhage in home births in Uganda based on the protocol of the study.

CONSULTANCY 3: CONSULTANCY TO GATHER INFORMATION ON THE CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE TRAINING OF COMMUNITY BASED DISTIBUTORS OF LONG-TERM FAMILY PLANNING METHODS IN THE EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA REGION

Role Profile: To gather and present information to RCQHC on current practices in training of community based distributors of FP in the ECSA region in relation to the community distribution of long-term methods of Family Planning.

CONSULTANCY 4: CONSULTANCY TO GATHER INFORMATION ON THE CURRENT EXPERIENCED COUNTRY PRACTICES IN TASK SHIFTING OF EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC SURGERY TO NON-PYSICIAN CLINICIANS
Role Profile: To find out and share information on what (according to the existing evidence) an ideal training program for non physician clinicians in the region should contain in order to properly equip them to be able to provide emergency obstetric surgery -caesarian sections; in units where access to physicians is limited.

For applications or clarifications, please contact us on the following addresses. Closing Date is 7th February 2011.

Technical Advisor RMNH or The Administrator,
Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care,
Makerere University School of Public Health,
P. O. Box 29140, Kampala,Uganda.
Tel: 256-414-530888
Fax: 256-414-530876
Website: www.rcqhc.org
mailto:mail@rcqhc.org;
mailto:gtefera@rcqhc.org.