{"id":2173,"date":"2015-01-23T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:15:48","slug":"measuringsuccesstoolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/01\/23\/measuringsuccesstoolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Freebie Friday: Measuring Success Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/01\/MLEstaircase_revised_4-13-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2177\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/01\/MLEstaircase_revised_4-13-12-300x128.png\" alt=\"Measurement and Evaluation Staircase\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monitoring and evaluation (M&amp;E) is a form of assessment used to help improve the performance and achievement of program results and often used by both non-government organizations (NGOs) and government agencies. The staircase diagram\u00a0above describes six questions that M&amp;E can help answer through program planning, monitoring, and evaluation. More information clarifying the difference between monitoring and evaluation as well as guidance for each of the\u00a0six questions is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanreproductivehealth.org\/toolkits\/measuring-success\/what-me-can-answer\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While not specific to health information outreach programs, the Measuring Success Toolkit at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanreproductivehealth.org\/toolkits\/measuring-success\">https:\/\/www.urbanreproductivehealth.org\/toolkits\/measuring-success<\/a>\u00a0from the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative\u00a0is about\u00a0health program planning, monitoring and evaluation. The toolkit provides helpful resources from the initiative&#8217;s multi-country perspective of working with the urban poor and the significant health disparities they face that may be helpful to consult\u00a0with your health information outreach partners to underserved communities. \u00a0It includes subject-specific M&amp;E resources such as\u00a0maternal &amp;\u00a0child health and HIV\/AIDs, and the resources within the toolkit are selected by M&amp;E experts and\u00a0reviewed quarterly following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanreproductivehealth.org\/toolkits\/measuring-success\/about#criteria\">established criteria<\/a>\u00a0to identify important resources from diverse perspectives that\u00a0include accurate, up to date information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring and evaluation (M&amp;E) is a form of assessment used to help improve the performance and achievement of program results and often used by both non-government organizations (NGOs) and government agencies. The staircase diagram\u00a0above describes six questions that M&amp;E can help answer through program planning, monitoring, and evaluation. More information clarifying the difference between monitoring&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/01\/23\/measuringsuccesstoolkit\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-z3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}