TY - JOUR
T1 - The RADAR coverage tool
T2 - developing a toolkit for rigorous household surveys for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health & nutrition indicators
AU - Munos, Melinda K.
AU - Maïga, Abdoulaye
AU - Sawadogo-Lewis, Talata
AU - Wilson, Emily
AU - Ako, Onome
AU - Mkuwa, Serafina
AU - Ngalesoni, Frida
AU - Brenner, Jennifer L.
AU - Matovelo, Dismas
AU - Ouili, Idrissa
AU - Soura, Abdramane
AU - Bougma, Moussa
AU - Sheffel, Ashley
AU - Hobbs, Amy J.
AU - Walker, Neff
N1 - Funding Information:
The development and piloting of the RADAR coverage survey tool was funded by Global Affairs Canada [Johns Hopkins University grant 90067950]. The Mama na Mtoto baseline coverage survey was carried out with the aid of a grant from the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa initiative, a partnership of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). We thank the women, men, and children who gave their time to participate in these surveys. We are grateful to the data collectors, mappers, supervisors, field staff, guides, technical advisors, and central office staff at all three pilot implementation sites who worked many hours under difficult conditions to make these surveys possible. The Mama na Mtoto initiative is grateful to team members from the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mbarara University of Science and Technology and University of Calgary who collaborated to enable the baseline coverage survey. Many thanks to Elia Msegu, Omari Kimbute, Salma Issa, Elison Ishunga, Henerico Ernest, Nasim Abdi, Caroline Amour, Polar Rwandekeye, Doreen Ainembabazi, Kim Manalili, Denise Buchner, Benedict Mugambi and the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for their contribution to the survey implementations in Tanzania. In Burkina Faso, we are grateful for the work done by research assistants Dianou Kassoum, Kaboré Geraude, Kaboré Théodore, Ouarma Souleymane, Koala Sibiri and Séré Adama to whom we say thank you. We are also grateful to Boureima Ouédraogo, Adama Tiendrébéogo and colleagues at the Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD) in Burkina Faso; and Halidou Nagabila and colleagues at the Institut Géographique du Burkina (IGB), for facilitating survey sampling and mapping. At the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, we thank Timothy Roberton, Akum Aveika, Yvonne Tam, Michael Peters, and Adetoun Olateju for providing technical assistance on these surveys.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Population-based intervention coverage data are used to inform the design of projects, programs, and policies and to evaluate their impact. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), household surveys are the primary source of coverage data. Many coverage surveys are implemented by organizations with limited experience or resources in population-based data collection. We developed a streamlined survey and set of supporting materials to facilitate rigorous survey design and implementation. The RADAR coverage survey tool aimed to 1) rigorously measure priority reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health & nutrition coverage indicators, and allow for equity and gender analyses; 2) use standard, valid questions, to the extent possible; 3) be as light as possible; 4) be flexible to address users’ needs; and 5) be compatible with the Lives Saved Tool for analysis of program impact. Early interactions with stakeholders also highlighted survey planning, implementation, and analysis as challenging areas. We therefore developed a suite of resources to support implementers in these areas. The toolkit was piloted by implementers in Tanzania and in Burkina Faso. Although the toolkit was successfully implemented in these settings and facilitated survey planning and implementation, we found that implementers must still have access to sufficient resources, time, and technical expertise in order to use the tool appropriately. This potentially limits the use of the tool to situations where high-quality surveys or evaluations have been prioritized and adequately resourced.
AB - Population-based intervention coverage data are used to inform the design of projects, programs, and policies and to evaluate their impact. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), household surveys are the primary source of coverage data. Many coverage surveys are implemented by organizations with limited experience or resources in population-based data collection. We developed a streamlined survey and set of supporting materials to facilitate rigorous survey design and implementation. The RADAR coverage survey tool aimed to 1) rigorously measure priority reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health & nutrition coverage indicators, and allow for equity and gender analyses; 2) use standard, valid questions, to the extent possible; 3) be as light as possible; 4) be flexible to address users’ needs; and 5) be compatible with the Lives Saved Tool for analysis of program impact. Early interactions with stakeholders also highlighted survey planning, implementation, and analysis as challenging areas. We therefore developed a suite of resources to support implementers in these areas. The toolkit was piloted by implementers in Tanzania and in Burkina Faso. Although the toolkit was successfully implemented in these settings and facilitated survey planning and implementation, we found that implementers must still have access to sufficient resources, time, and technical expertise in order to use the tool appropriately. This potentially limits the use of the tool to situations where high-quality surveys or evaluations have been prioritized and adequately resourced.
KW - Household survey
KW - child health
KW - maternal health
KW - newborn health
KW - nutrition
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U2 - 10.1080/16549716.2021.2006419
DO - 10.1080/16549716.2021.2006419
M3 - Article
C2 - 36098955
AN - SCOPUS:85138304545
SN - 1654-9716
VL - 15
JO - Global health action
JF - Global health action
IS - sup1
M1 - 2006419
ER -