Post-intervention/response evaluation OR Post-action review

Material provided: Protocol or report (with Executive Summary)
Unit definition: 1 person month; report: min. 6 person months (senior researcher or PostDoc)
Provider country: Austria (MUW); Netherlands (NIVEL)
Short Description: This service will evaluate the planning, development and implementation of health-related interventions for disease epidemics. 

Description:

Description of the facility

Medical University of Vienna is one of the longest-established medical education and research facilities in Europe. With almost 8,000 students, it is currently the largest medical training centre in the German-speaking countries. With more than 6,000 employees, 30 departments and two clinical institutes, 13 medical theory centres and numerous highly specialised laboratories, it is one of Europe’s leading research establishments in the biomedical sector. The Unit Medical Anthropology and Global Health focuses on the socio-cultural implications and perceptions of infectious diseases as well as anthropological perspectives in emergency response and humanitarian assistance. Specifically, we plan, develop and evaluate community (or public) engagement activities related to outbreak response. This service provider can offer services in English and German.

NIVEL (The Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research) is the national institute for health services research in the Netherlands. It is an independent organisation. Its domain is applied and applicable health services research. NIVEL has a dual mission: scientific and societal. Health services research is the multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that examines how social factors, financing systems, organisational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviours affect access to health care, the quality and costs of health care, and ultimately our health and well-being. NIVEL studies developments in (primary) health care elsewhere in Europe. NIVEL is the only institute in the European region of WHO that is active in primary health care research.

 

Scope of the service

The service aims to provide an evaluation or after action review of emergency response activities, mainly in the WHO Europe region. In a participative dialogue with key stakeholders in affected communities or countries, we aim at identifying results, best practices and challenges for risk communication and community engagement strategies that have been implemented or to detect reasons for omission. The review will provide the opportunity to share experiences during the response phase, and to contribute to a collection of lessons learned and future recommendations to enhance community involvement in the development and implementation of response measures.

This evaluation/review will help policy makers understand:

  •  – How affected communities perceived access to and content of information material
  •  – What affected communities thought of the implementation of information campaigns and community engagement activities
  •  – Feedback processes and recommendations for improvement

Methodology

Key stakeholders of emergency response and affected communities will be engaged in a feedback process and given an opportunity to share experiences and reflect on ways to improve future responses.

An evaluation/review usually consists of expert and stakeholder interviews (online), and focus group discussions or other group interview processes with e.g. focal points, representatives of local relief organizations (e.g. Red Cross), local CSOs (e.g. who provide support to vulnerable groups), and representatives of public health institutions.

The interviews and discussions will follow a semi-structured interview guide. Interviews will be recorded, transcribed and coded with atlas.ti. Analysis of transcripts will take place by usual qualitative approaches, such as content analysis.

The final product of the evaluation/review will be locally implemented community engagement strategies, best practices and obstacles to include communities. The report will include local level recommendations to advance the use of community engagement strategies in contexts of public health emergencies.

Team

The team will be coordinated by a senior investigator (PhD in anthropology/social sciences/public health, or equivalent); expert interviews will be conducted by a junior researcher (MA in anthropology/social sciences/public health, or equivalent)

Deliverable

A protocol and/or 15-20 pages report (per setting) including a 2 page-executive summary with recommendations.

 

The ISIDORe project has received funding from the EU Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101046133.

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