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Adaptive Interventions to Promote Change in the 21st Century: The Responsive Feedback Approach
- Adaptive Interventions to Promote Change in the 21st Century: The Responsive Feedback Approach
The RF approach is a framework of intervention development that aims to collect timely data that serve as feedback and provide flexibility, agility, and adaptability to intervention planners and implementers to make changes that enhance their success.
- Research to Help Projects Operate Successfully
Operational research is central to project success; an explicit conceptual and operational model can underpin questions that merit attention, prioritizing those where doubt is high and where responsive changes are likely.
- Getting Rigor Right: A Framework for Methodological Choice in Adaptive Monitoring and Evaluation
The authors present a framework using the level of certainty in a program's design to choose the appropriate level of rigor for adaptive learning activities conducted during program implementation.
- Evidence for Decision-Making: The Importance of Systematic Data Collection as an Essential Component of Responsive Feedback
The authors discuss the importance of systematic data collection as a central component of the responsive feedback process and highlight several case studies that illustrate continuous learning and improvement.
- Codeveloping an Adolescent Health Program in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Community-Partnered Responsive Feedback Approach
Adolescent Health Champions used responsive feedback to adapt its peer education intervention to address negative impacts on adolescents' mental and physical health and closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Improving State Government's Responsiveness to Family Planning Interventions in Nigeria Using an Innovative Reflection and Action Tool
Use of a responsive feedback tool improved government-led family planning programming by enabling reflection, monitoring of capacity-building, and action planning.
- Improving Program Outcomes Through Responsive Feedback: A Case Study of a Leadership Development Academy in Nigeria
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Nigeria used a responsive feedback mechanism to successfully establish a leadership development academy for building core leadership, management, and basic functional skills among its staff.
- Strengthening Social and Behavior Change Programming Through Application of an Adaptive Management Framework: A Case Study in Tanzania
The SBC Adaptive Management Framework, tested under the USAID Tulonge Afya project in Tanzania, offers a systematic, evidence-informed, and participatory approach to strengthen program design and implementation and enhance outcomes.
- How The Challenge Initiative Adapted and Used Pause and Reflect Responsive Feedback Sessions for Adaptive Management in Nigeria
Through pause and reflect sessions, The Challenge Initiative has instituted improvements for scaling up evidence-based, government-led FP/RH interventions, including government self-reliance assessment and development of more systematic coaching plans.
- Designing and Implementing the Adaptive Learning Meeting Cycle: The (re)solve Project Experience in Burkina Faso
The (re)solve project's adaptive learning meeting cycle allows programs to adapt while responding to the program implementation context. In Burkina Faso, it also created a team culture that engendered dialogue, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
- Leveraging Responsive Feedback to Redesign a Demand Generation Strategy: Experience From the IntegratE Project in Lagos State, Nigeria
Authors detail using a responsive feedback approach to reflect on successes and challenges of an interpersonal communication agent strategy and adapt the strategy to address gaps in performance to increase contraceptive uptake.
- Using Responsive Feedback in Scaling a Gender Norms-Shifting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Responsive feedback mechanisms—especially a culture of learning among donors, researchers, and implementers—facilitated timely adaptations and scale-up efforts of an adolescent sexual and reproductive health program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Using a Responsive Feedback Approach to Develop and Pilot a Counseling Chatbot to Strengthen Child Nutrition in Rural India
The authors report on developing and testing a chatbot to facilitate additional client contact points for information and counseling to improve child nutrition outcomes in rural India.
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