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MEASURE evaluation

Health policies in many developing countries are increasingly designed and evaluated by data collected using household surveys. DEC abstract (PN-ACQ-380)

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Health policies in many developing countries are increasingly designed and evaluated by data collected using household surveys. This trend is closely associated with three factors: the increasing complexity of health systems, the increase in pressure for better accountability and improved health system management, and the continuing existence of poorly maintained vital statistics systems. But national household- or individual-level surveys are expensive. These factors have, unsurprisingly, coincided with an increase in the use of rapid survey methods. Although rapid methods have been used frequently, few studies have tested the quality of data obtained by them, and none have compared the cost of the rapid surveys with non-rapid surveys in a developing country context. This paper presents the trade-offs in cost and quality of information obtained from a rapid assessment survey in Ecuador. The results from the rapid survey were compared with results obtained from a national survey conducted six months earlier. The objective was to see what alternative policies might be arrived at if the data from the rapid survey were used in place of the large survey. In addition, the relative costs

Source: DEC abstract, PN-ACQ-380 (1999). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.

Operated in: Tanzania, Philippines, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Africa South of Sahara, Guatemala, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, Asia, Uganda, South Africa, Africa, Thailand, East Africa, Taiwan, Latin America, China, Peru, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, India, El Salvador, Lesotho, Vietnam, Rwanda, Ecuador.

Years: 1997 to 2015 award start, end from document years
Implementer: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolina Population Center; East-West Center (EWC); Tulane University; and 14 more 138 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Bur. for Global Health; GHA-A-08-00003; HRN-A-97-00018
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Region or province · 3 mentions · 2000 to 2002
District · 1 mention · 2000
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Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolina Population Center	implementer	1998 to 2015	Stated in a document	138 sources
East-West Center (EWC)	implementer	2001	Stated in a document	12 sources

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Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
GHA-A-08-00003 (cooperative agreement, FY2008)	2009 to 2015	Stated in a document	124 sources
HRN-A-97-00018 (cooperative agreement, FY1997)	1998 to 2004	Stated in a document	66 sources

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Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents

Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title	Year	Document	Why listed
Family planning, maternal/child health, and sexually-transmitted diseases in Tanzania : multivariate results using data from the 1996 demographic and health survey and service availability survey	1998	PN-ACJ-182	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Estimating the health impact of industry infant food marketing practices in the Philippines	1998	PN-ACJ-185	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Household health expenditures in Morocco : implications for health care reform	1998	PN-ACJ-190	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

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Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Zambia. Ministry of Health	lead ministry	2004 to 2010	Likely, not confirmed	8 sources
Nicaragua. Ministry of Health	lead ministry	2001	Likely, not confirmed	1 source
Zambia. Central Statistical Ofc.	implementing agency	2010	Likely, not confirmed	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Bur. for Global Health	2002 to 2015	Stated in a document	70 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of Health and Nutrition	2002 to 2006	Stated in a document	20 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research. Center for Population, Health and Nutrition. Ofc. of Population	1999 to 2002	Stated in a document	17 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of Population	2001 to 2002	Stated in a document	13 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research. Center for Population, Health and Nutrition	1998 to 2001	Stated in a document	10 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition	2006 to 2009	Stated in a document	10 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research. Center for Population, Health and Nutrition. Ofc. of Health and Nutrition	1999 to 2000	Stated in a document	4 sources
USAID. Mission to Guatemala	2000	Stated in a document	3 sources
USAID. Mission to Zambia	1999 to 2002	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to South Africa	2004	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Bur. for Africa. Regional Economic Development Services Ofc. (REDSO) East Africa	2002	Stated in a document	1 source
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation	1999	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Indonesia	2001	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Nicaragua	2001	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Philippines	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Tanzania	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Turkey	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Uganda	2001	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of HIV/AIDS	2003	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Morocco	1998	Stated in a document	1 source

MEASURE evaluation

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Princeton University. Ofc. of Population Research	implementer	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Zambia	implementer	2010	Stated in a document	1 source
National Institute of Statistics and the Census	implementer	2003	Stated in a document	1 source
Opinion Research Corp. Macro International Inc. (ORC Macro)	implementer	2003	Stated in a document	1 source
CARE Lesotho	implementer	2002	Stated in a document	1 source
Sechaba Consultants, Lesotho	implementer	2002	Stated in a document	1 source
MEASURE Evaluatin	implementer	2014	Stated in a document	1 source
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine. Program for International Training in Health (INTRAH)	implementer	2002	Stated in a document	1 source
Wellstart International	implementer	1998	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
Ctr for Population, Health & Nutrition	1999 to 2009	Stated in a document	36 sources
Philippines	1998 to 2001	Stated in a document	6 sources
Tanzania	1998 to 2009	Stated in a document	6 sources
Asia Regional	2001	Stated in a document	5 sources
Guatemala	2000 to 2002	Stated in a document	5 sources
Zambia	1999 to 2010	Stated in a document	5 sources
Nigeria	2006 to 2011	Stated in a document	4 sources
Uganda	2001 to 2003	Stated in a document	4 sources
China, People's Republic of	2001	Stated in a document	2 sources
Mexico	2014	Stated in a document	2 sources
Nicaragua	2001 to 2003	Stated in a document	2 sources
South Africa	2004	Stated in a document	2 sources
China, Republic of (Taiwan)	2001	Stated in a document	1 source
India	1999	Stated in a document	1 source
Indonesia	2001	Stated in a document	1 source
Lesotho	2002	Stated in a document	1 source
Mali	2014	Stated in a document	1 source
Thailand	2001	Stated in a document	1 source
Turkey	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
Zimbabwe	2003	Stated in a document	1 source
Morocco	1998	Stated in a document	1 source

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Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

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