TY - JOUR T1 - Doing What We Do, Better: Improving Our Work Through Systematic Program Reporting JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 257 LP - 259 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00136 VL - 6 IS - 2 AU - Irene Koek AU - Marianne Monclair AU - Erin Anastasi AU - Petra ten Hoope-Bender AU - Elizabeth Higgs AU - Rafael Obregon Y1 - 2018/06/27 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/6/2/257.abstract N2 - WHO has recently published program reporting standards to guide the type of information that reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and related health programs should document to promote cross-program learning. We strongly encourage our partners and key stakeholders to make use of the new standards as part of their routine program reporting.The world's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put forth a broad, visionary, and ambitious agenda, including targets that require efficient, effective programs in communities and populations implemented at scale. Collectively, our organizations invest significantly in global health science and practice.We all emphasize evidence-based learning, design, and implementation to improve the programs we support. There are several paths to improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of programs; one path to improvement is cross-program learning. We often find, however, that program reports, when accessible, lack critical information necessary for reproducibility and adaptation to context. They also often lack information on key insights generated in the field that could be invaluable to other programs struggling with similar issues or seeking to implement similar interventions in a different context. Having accessible, systematic, comprehensive, and easily comparable data on program implementation—the how, why, who, and what—would facilitate learning, replication, validation, and scale up of interventions for different populations and environments.Program reports often lack critical information necessary for reproducibility and adaptation to context.For these reasons, we welcome the World Health Organization's (WHO's) recent publication on Program Reporting Standards (PRS) for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) programs.1 The objective of the PRS is “to provide guidance for complete and accurate reporting on the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation processes of SRMNCAH programs.”1 The PRS are intended for program managers and other staff who design, implement, and/or evaluate SRMNCAH programs, as well as implementation researchers who need to document … ER -