Abstract
Poor diet and undernutrition are common among children living in Bangladesh. To promote appropriate complementary feeding of young children, an economic development (ED) program involving income-generating asset transfer was implemented alongside a social and behavior change (SBC) program. This paper introduces a collaborative monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system in which diverse collaborators (“research group”, “implementation team”, and “coordinators”) facilitate M&E data acquisition by leveraging their comparative advantages. The implementation team built a monitoring system to track the ED (n = 2960) and SBC participants (n=∼10,000) over 12 months. Based on the baseline design and the monitoring records, the collaborators planned an impact evaluation introducing a quasi-experimental design using two cross-sectional surveys and a prospective cohort survey of child feeding and nutritional status. Using various data sources generated from the M&E system, the collaborators will also reveal the program impact pathway through which each intervention component is delivered, received, and utilized alongside the context-specific facilitators and barriers, including the programs’ uptake. The collaborative M&E system enables the sharing of program goals, strengthens collaborators' commitment to the program, and extends the understanding of the program's progress and evaluation activities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 101892 |
Journal | Evaluation and Program Planning |
Volume | 84 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2021 |
Keywords
- Collaborative monitoring and evaluation system
- Impact evaluation
- Income generating asset transfer
- Positive Deviance/Hearth (PD/Hearth)
- Process evaluation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Social Psychology
- Business and International Management
- Strategy and Management