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- Harmonizing Data Visualizations on Child Health and Well-Being to Strengthen Advocacy and Monitoring Efforts
Data visualization tools on child health have improved data accessibility but caused confusion over indicator data sources and which tools to use for specific purposes. We propose principles for generating future tools that can effectively trigger action and accountability for children everywhere.
- Another Best Practice: Leveraging User and Stakeholder Perspectives to Improve and Refine Existing Medical Products
Refinement of existing medical products, which may already have an established evidence base, robust market, and experienced users, may better meet user and potential user needs, if feedback from key stakeholders is solicited and incorporated early in the refinement process.
- Do No Harm: A Review of Social Harms Associated with HIV Partner Notification
This narrative review provides an in-depth interpretation of the limited evidence available on social harms associated with HIV partner notification services. Findings reflect knowledge gaps and areas where future research could make contributions.
- Keeping the Customer Satisfied: Applying a Kano Model to Improve Vaccine Promotion in the Philippines
The authors show how global health science and practice can benefit from applying approaches established in other fields, such as consumer psychology and quality management, to increase clients' satisfaction with health interventions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.