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Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist (BMJ article 2016 352 :i1174)

September 9, 2016

To improve the completeness of reporting of mobile health (mHealth) interventions, the WHO mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group developed the mHealth evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist. The development process for mERA consisted of convening an expert group to recommend an appropriate approach, convening a global expert review panel for checklist development, and pilot testing the checklist. The guiding principle for the development of these criteria was to identify a minimum set of information needed to define what the mHealth intervention is (content), where it is being implemented (context), and how it was implemented (technical features), to support replication of the intervention. This paper presents the resulting 16 item checklist and a detailed explanation and elaboration for each item, with illustrative reporting examples. Through widespread adoption, it is expected that the use of these guidelines will standardise the quality of mHealth evidence reporting, and indirectly improve the quality of mHealth evidence.

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Filed Under: [E] C4D Monitoring & Evaluation, Health, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Research Papers Tagged With: mHealth, Mobile Phones, SMS

Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Monitoring in Indonesia (IDS Evidence Report 2016)

July 23, 2016

Routine growth monitoring is a common practice that aims to: detect children at risk of malnutrition; direct essential resources when children have growth faltering; track nutrition trends; determine eligibility for counselling and other specific services; and help to make child malnutrition more visible to the child’s caregivers, the community and government.

The quality and usefulness of growth monitoring is often limited by poor data quality, long delays between data collection and dissemination that prevent timely response, and shortcomings in the interpretation and use of the data. The full potential of growth monitoring is often underused both to increase knowledge and improve practices at community level and to inform decision-making for better nutrition.

The use of mobile phone technology may offer innovative opportunities to strengthen community-based growth monitoring and make it more effective for tackling child malnutrition. Despite global enthusiasm for using mobile phones for nutrition monitoring and surveillance systems, there are only very few studies that have critically assessed their application. Together with World Vision Indonesia and World Vision Canada, the Institute of Development Studies aimed to fill this evidence gap and evaluate the piloting of a mobile phone application for community-based growth monitoring.

Filed Under: [E] C4D Monitoring & Evaluation, Health, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Indonesia, Nutrition, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Apps, children, Malnutrition, Mobile Phones

Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of a Mobile Decision Support Tool in Malawi (Health Finance and Governance Project case study and evaluation 2015)

May 1, 2016

Mobile applications are promising tools for strengthening service quality and have been an area of considerable mHealth innovation. Despite growing demand for data to guide policymakers, donors, and program managers in making sound investments, there is a paucity of evidence on the cost-effectiveness of mHealth technologies. To address this gap, the HFG Project analyzed a mobile decision support tool with the following objectives: First, it aimed to provide a transparent and detailed methodology for categorizing the costs of building, deploying, and scaling-up mobile decision support tools in Malawi. Second, it evaluated the incremental cost-effectiveness of a mobile tool’s use in improving clinical care. Finally, the evaluation addressed challenges faced in conducting cost-effectiveness analyses of mHealth interventions when they are scaled up and become multifunctional.

Filed Under: [E] C4D Monitoring & Evaluation, Case Studies, Health, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Malawi, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: mHealth, Mobile Phone

Media development: An evaluation of five capacity-strengthening projects (BBC Media Action Research report 2016)

February 5, 2016

This research report articulates BBC Media Action’s evolving approach to capacity strengthening within the media development sector. It shares findings from the recent evaluation of five different capacity-strengthening interventions in Nigeria, Tanzania, Nepal and the Palestinian Territories.

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Filed Under: [E] C4D Monitoring & Evaluation, Ethiopia, Media Development, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories, Publications (published in print and/or online), Tanzania Tagged With: Capacity Development

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