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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Advancing Our Understanding of Provider Behavior Change for Improved Health Outcomes
The articles in this supplement highlight the need for strengthening the measure of provider behavior change and provide new evidence and tools for advancing our understanding of provider behavior and effective ways to ensure delivery of high-quality care that supports both clients and providers.
- Methods and Measures to Assess Health Care Provider Behavior and Behavioral Determinants in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: A Rapid Review
There is a limited understanding of health care provider behavior change approaches and how they're being measured. This rapid review identifies methods and measures to understand opportunities and gaps in assessing and improving health care provider performance.