Enhancing capacity to apply research evidence in policy making-Phase II
Developing capacities for using community oriented evidence towards strengthening district health planning in Maharashtra State, India
This project proposes to build the capacity of members of Block and District monitoring and planning committees including health officials towards facilitating their use of evidence for decentralized health planning.
The strategies to be employed in three intervention districts in this project are as follows:
- "Structured learning course on Health planning", for District and block health officials and civil society representatives from the select districts;
- At District and Block levels, practical capacity building of members of District and Block monitoring and planning committees would be carried out in the three intervention districts;
- Facilitation of processes for the inclusion of community-based evidence in the district health plan and activation of the District health monitoring and planning committee.
The evaluation of the course participants would be done before the commencement of the course, with end-training evaluation done to assess the increase in the capacity of evidence use in planning. Along with this, the course faculty will scrutinize the successive assignments completed by course participants with a view to understanding their conceptual grasp of the key issues. Similarly, the response of participants during the three contact sessions would be taken into account to fine-tune the course inputs. Short feedback forms would be given to participants during each of the contact sessions for this purpose.
Overall, the project would be evaluated on the basis of the increase in the capacity of the members of District and Block planning committees in using evidence while preparing plans.
Project description
Programme: Enhancing capacity to apply research evidence in policy making-Phase II
Research title: Developing capacities for using community oriented evidence towards strengthening
district health planning in Maharashtra state, India
Thematic Research Area: Evidence to Policy
Grantee Country: India
Grantee Institution: Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives (SATHI), Anusandhan Trust (Maharashtra, India) and the State Health Systems Resource Centre (SHSRC), (Maharashtra, India)
Program Coordinator/Principle Investigator:Dr. Abhay Shukla (Anusandhan Trust)
Start date: April 2010
Status of grant: Ongoing
Note: This Anusandhan Trust and SHSRC will implement the project jointly.