Evaluation Design for Complex Global Initiatives : Workshop Summary

National Academies Press

Evaluation Design for Complex Global InitiativesWorkshop Summary\nAuthor(s): Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Steve Olson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: National Academies Press, United States\nImprint: National Academies Press\nISBN-13: 9780309302586, 978-0309302586\nSynopsis\nEvery year, public and private funders spend many billions of dollars on large-scale, complex, multi-national health initiatives. The only way to know whether these initiatives are achieving their objectives is through evaluations that examine the links between program activities and desired outcomes. Investments in such evaluations, which, like the initiatives being evaluated, are carried out in some of the world's most challenging settings, are a relatively new phenomenon. In the last five years, evaluations have been conducted to determine the effects of some of the world's largest and most complex multi-national health initiatives. Evaluation Design for Complex Global Initiatives is the sum.