School of Health Systems and (Mexico), Mahidol University (Thailand), University of Public Health (SHSPH), University of Pretoria Ghana, and Public Health Foundation of India. MEASURE Evaluation serves as the Secretariat for GEMNet-Health. The School of Health Systems & Public Health (SHSPH) is Africa's premier institution in capacity building in M&E of health, population and nutrition programmes. It has as its Cost of the Workshop Impact Evaluation of mission, the promotion of health, health systems and public health through education, research, service The tuition fee is ZAR 24,550, (approx. US$ 2500). development, consultation and advocacy. It has excelled The fee includes registration fees, course materials, HIV/AIDS and Health internationally in providing short courses through daily refreshments, lunch, and transportation to and Continuing Education at the University of Pretoria. from the workshop venue. Travel and Programs accommodation fees: ZAR 18,480 (approx.US$ Public Health Foundation of India 2200) per person and includes 13 nights accommodation and 2 airport transfers. The venue July 21st – August 1st, 2014 The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is a public of the workshop will be in Pretoria, South Africa. private initiative that has collaboratively evolved through Applicants are advised to seek funding from their Pretoria, South Africa consultations with multiple constituencies including home organizations or from national or international Indian and international academia, state and central agencies. Applicants who are awaiting funding governments, multi & bi-lateral agencies and civil society confirmation should submit their workshop groups. PHFI is a response to redress the limited application forms to SHSPH to meet the deadline. School of Health Systems & Public Health institutional capacity in India for strengthening training, When funding is confirmed, the applicant should let University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa research and policy development in the area of Public SHSPH know as soon as possible. Health. A limited number of bursaries will be funded by 3ie Public Health Foundation of India for qualified candidates from eastern and southern New Delhi, India The MEASURE Evaluation Project Africa. The bursary will cover the tuition fee, economy class air travel, and accommodation. MEASURE Evaluation, University of North Carolina MEASURE Evaluation works with USAID and its country Chapel Hill, NC, USA missions and collaborating agencies, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations Global Evaluation & Monitoring Network worldwide, to help countries measure their progress in confronting disease, population issues and poverty. for Health (GEMNet-Health) CONTACT INFORMATION MEASURE Evaluation is funded by USAID under terms of Cooperative Agreement GHA-A-00-08-00003-00. Banele Senatla, Private Bag X41, Hatffield, 0028, South Africa CTION A Global Evaluation and Monitoring Network O T PUBLIC E G Fax: +27 86 620 3734 D E HEALTH

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O FOUNDATION N E-mail: : [email protected] K OF INDIA GEMNet-Health aims to foster organizational growth, Workshop information and application forms can be collaboration, and South-to-South support for M&E of health programs globally. The eight founding member obtained at: institutions of GEMNet-Health are the University of www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/training Pretoria (South Africa), Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), USAID www.phfi.org and FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (Ethiopia), www.ceatup.com Centre Africain d'Etudes Superieures en Gestion (Senegal), El Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Every year large amounts of resources are spent ?To review the main evaluation designs and Participants will form groups to prepare a proposal for implementing HIV/AIDS, population, health and estimation techniques used for evaluating program evaluating the impact of a real program. Participants nutrition programs. In a context of limited resources impact are encouraged to bring their own cases of programs and growing concerns about the performance of ?To develop criteria for choosing the appropriate they are evaluating in their countries. public programs, it is important for policymakers, estimation strategy given different scenarios of program managers and donors to examine whether program characteristics and data availability Eligibility programs are having the intended impact they were ?To interpret results appropriately and to examine the designed for. Good evaluations play an important role programmatic implications of results The course is designed for mid-level health by providing concrete evidence of the impact of ?To gain practical experience applying the estimation professionals involved in the implementation and program actions on target populations. Does a strategies and quantitative tools. evaluation of HIV/AIDS, population, health and program have an impact? By how much? Does the nutrition programs. Computer literacy, experience program have a different impact on different groups of with household survey data, and intermediate people? Do different program components have Workshop Content statistical knowledge (including knowledge of different impacts? Why and how does the program regression analysis) will be essential. Applicants have an impact? These are important questions that This hands-on training will cover the following areas: should be proficient in English. can be answered by rigorous evaluations. In this ?What information is provided by impact evaluation workshop we will review methods for providing questions that other types of evaluations do not? Faculty answers to some of those questions. But, how good is ?Answering the impact evaluation question, what do the answer? We will also review the limitations of the we need? The course will be taught by experts from MEASURE methodologies and the conditions under which they Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at provide valid answers. ?Approximating the counterfactual, key issues to consider: confounding, selectivity, externalities, Chapel Hill; faculty members of Instituto Nacional de Despite widespread interest in the effectiveness of others Salud Pública, Mexico, University of Pretoria, South HIV/AIDS and health programs, there have been few Africa, Public Health Foundation of India, and Addis ?Evaluation designs: experimental and non- rigorous evaluations of their impact. Yet careful Continental Institute of Public Health/ Addis Ababa experimental evaluation of program impact is essential if policy University, Ethiopia; and other experts from makers and managers are to make informed decisions ?Experimental designs government and non-governmental agencies working about program design, implementation and ?Selectivity and endogeneity problems: causes, in M&E. modification. consequences, solutions ?Instrumental variables methods Application Procedures and Deadlines Workshop Objectives ?Difference-in-difference designs Persons who wish to take part in the workshop ?Matching designs should send the completed application forms and The workshop will provide intensive training in the ?Regression discontinuity analysis other application documents as soon as possible to: concepts of program evaluation and in the tools and ?Cost effectiveness techniques for evaluating program impact. The main ?Qualitative approaches workshop objectives are: Banele Senatla ?Preparing an impact evaluation proposal ?To understand the basic concepts of program M&E Private Bag X41, Hatffield - 0028, South Africa Sessions will also cover techniques for measuring To define the impact evaluation questions and to ? socioeconomic status and estimating heterogeneous Application materials should arrive in Pretoria no examine the main issues to consider for answering program effects. The workshop consists of lectures, later than Friday, May 23, 2014. those questions in a reliable way. practical sessions, case studies, and group work. Only complete applications will be reviewed.