PHFI is pleased to announce a regional workshop on “Impact Evaluation of Population, Health and Nutrition Programs”. The workshop is being sponsored by PHFI in collaboration with MEASURE Evaluation. The three-week course will be held October 5 - 16, 2009 in New Delhi.
Workshop Introduction
Every year large amounts of resources are spent implementing population, health and nutrition programs. In a context of limited resources and growing concerns about the performance of public programs, it is important for policy makers, program managers and donors to examine whether programs are having the intended impact they were designed for. Reliable
evaluations play an important role by providing concrete evidence of the impact of program actions on target populations. Does a program have an impact? And, if the answer is yes, by how much? Additional questions are: Does the program have a different impact on different groups of people? Do different program components have different impacts? Those are
important questions that can be answered by rigorous evaluations.
In this workshop we will review methods for providing answers to some of those questions. But, how good is the answer? We will also review the limitations of the methodologies and the conditions under which they provide valid answers. Despite widespread interest in the effectiveness of health programs, there have been few rigorous evaluations of their impact on health. Yet, careful evaluation of program impact is essential if policy makers and managers are to make informed decisions about program design, implementation and modification.
Objectives
The workshop will provide intensive training in
the concepts of program evaluation and in the
tools and techniques for evaluating program
impact.
The main workshop objectives are:
- to review the basic concepts of program
monitoring and evaluation (M&E);
- to examine the main issues to consider for
evaluating the impact of a program and
to familiarize you with different evaluation
designs for evaluating program impact;
- to review the main evaluation strategies and
estimation techniques used for evaluating
program impact;
- to develop criteria for choosing the
appropriate estimation for evaluating
impact given different scenarios of program
characteristics and data availability;
- to interpret results appropriately and to
examine the programmatic implications of
results; and
- to gain practical experience applying the
estimation strategies and quantitative tools.
For more details on programme content, fees and resource persons, please download the Brochure and Application Form (Word version | PDF version)
The deadline for submitting Workshop Application has been extended till July 22nd.
Persons who wish to take part in the workshop
should send the completed application forms
and other application documents as soon as
possible to:
Dr Manish Kakkar
Public Health Foundation of India
PHD House,
2nd Floor
4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg,
New Delhi -110016, India
Tel : + 91 11 46046000
Fax: +91 11 26851926
E-mail: manish.kakkar@phfi.org
Application materials should arrive in India no
later than July 22, 2009. |
