A common evaluation framework for the African Health Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The African Health Initiative includes highly diverse partnerships in five countries (Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia), each of which is working to improve population health by strengthening health systems and to evaluate the results. One aim of the Initiative is to generate cross-site learning that can inform implementation in the five partnerships during the project period and identify lessons that may be generalizable to other countries in the region. Collaborators in the Initiative developed a common evaluation framework as a basis for this cross-site learning.

Methods

This paper describes the components of the framework; this includes the conceptual model, core metrics to be measured in all sites, and standard guidelines for reporting on the i

SUBMITTER: Bryce J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3668298 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature