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Bangladesh’s Adolescent Landscape: Unveiling Insights from the Bangladesh Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Survey 2019-20

USAID’s Inclusive Development approach champions health equity with the idea that every individual and community, of all diverse identities and experiences, play a pivotal role in the transformation of their own societies. USAID works to integrate inclusive development in the areas of disability rights, inclusion and equity, mental health, and youth, among others.

Charting a path towards local capacity strengthening: Systems and tools for mapping and planning

Based on MOMENTUM’s Enhanced Framework on Organizational Capacity, the CMMS presents a new approach to planning and monitoring performance improvement. This integrated, systems-oriented package enables a partner organization to map their assets, challenges, and the internal drivers that either support or limit their performance. The CMMS generates real-time data and offers a monitoring process to make course corrections. It is designed to foster improvements in organizational performance, user ownership of the improvement process, and an in-depth understanding of performance determinants.

Research and Evaluation Needs to Support Sustainable Health Programs

Drawing on peer-reviewed and grey literature alongside interviews with a range of stakeholders from the USAID and local research organizations, presenters shared recommendations for USAID to support sustainable research and evaluation capacity strengthening for health programs centered around six thematic areas:

Equitable Approaches and Tools in Knowledge Management

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Preparing Future Social Workers for Data-Driven Practice: A Panel Discussion with Universities in Moldova and the USA

Pregătirea viitorilor asistenți sociali pentru o practică bazată pe date: Panel de discuții cu universități din Moldova și SUA

Validation of a Reproductive Empowerment Scale Using Longitudinal Data

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Promoting Health Equity in the Armenia D4I Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Activity

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Family planning needs across the life cycle in Bangladesh: Synthesis of recent evidence and a proposed new approach

M. Moinuddin Haider, MSc, MPH, is an Assistant Scientist in the Health Systems and Population Studies Division in icddr,b, Bangladesh. He received a MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Dhaka and a Master of Public Health from the Independent University, Bangladesh. He has over 12 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of population, health and nutrition programs, and survey and demographic surveillance research. His other expertise includes health and demographic measurement improvement in population-based surveys.

Behavioral Interventions for the Use of Evaluation Findings

Agata Slota leads the D4I Behavioral Interventions for the Use of Evaluation Findings activity. She is a Behavior Change, Research and Communications Advisor at Palladium, applying insights from behavioral science and strategic communications on projects that span sectors and geographies. Agata has master’s degrees in behavioral science and in international affairs.

Recent health equity-focused work under The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program

Urban poverty and child health indicators (Shireen Assaf)

Data for Impact’s Digital Skills Assessment: A guide to build digital skills in the child protection workforce

Evaluating integrated health programs: An example from Nigeria

Siân Curtis, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the faculty principal investigator for the D4I project. Her research focuses on monitoring and evaluation of population, health, and food security programs, and on reproductive health, primarily in low- and middle-income countries.

RECAP: A tool to assess and grow local capacity for rigorous research and evaluation of health programs

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Every Newborn-Measurement Improvement for Newborn & Stillbirth Indicators (EN-MINI) Tools for Routine Health Information Systems

Integration of Machine Learning HIV Risk Scoring Model into KenyaEMR

The Speakers

Disease surveillance using a One Health approach in Burkina Faso: Successes and opportunities of a multisectoral collaboration

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Data integration under The Demographic and Health Survey Program

The Presentations

Development of a tool to assess the gender competency of family planning providers

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Case Management Information Systems for Child Protection and Care: Data for Impact Presents the CMIS Assessment, Planning and Governance Toolkits

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Using routine information to conduct facility-level efficiency analysis

Lessons learned for drawing on multiple secondary data sources in evaluation

Emily Weaver, PhD, has worked for 16 years in research and evaluation of public health programs with expertise in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). At Data for Impact, Dr. Weaver leads evaluations in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia for programs focused on RMNCH, nutrition, and HIV.