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MEASURE Evaluation, a USAID-funded project, supports improvements in
monitoring and evaluating population, health and nutrition worldwide.
Please find announcements of upcoming workshops and new publications below.

*Announcement*

*MEASURE Evaluation at the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting*
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The annual meeting of The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
(ASTMH) will take place November 11-15 in Atlanta, Georgia. The ASTMH
Annual Meeting is the premier forum for scientific advances in tropical
medicine and global health.

Learn how MEASURE Evaluation is involved at <http://goo.gl/bAoQo>

*Discussion Forum*

*RHINO Online Forum: Private Sector Participation in Health Information
Development and Use*

RHINO in collaboration with USAID- funded MEASURE Evaluation, is hosting an
online forum led by  Bolaji Fapohunda, PhD., Senior Technical Advisor of
MEASURE Evaluation, who will guide a focused discussion on the key issues
in routine data development and use in the private sector and the linkages
with the public sector. The forum will take place from October 9-16, 2012.

Learn more about the forum at <http://goo.gl/tP77t>

*Webinar*

*M&E for Social Service System Strengthening Webinar*

Please join us for a Child Status Net webinar to discuss M&E for Social
Service System Strengthening. The discussion will be held at 9am EST on
October 17 and will be led by Kelley McCreery Bunkers and Mari Hickmann.
The conversation will focus on current best practices to monitor and
evaluate social protection systems and child protection systems, while
highlighting priority areas for continued dialogue and development.

Find out how to join the webinar at <http://goo.gl/HLovw>

*Workshops*

*GIS Application in Public Health Workshop*
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MEASURE Evaluation, a USAID-funded project, is pleased to announce an
international workshop on “GIS Application in Public Health” for
English-speaking professionals. The workshop is sponsored by the Public
Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in collaboration with MEASURE Evaluation.
This 5-day course will be held October 8-12, 2012, in New Delhi, India.

Find out more about the workshop at <http://goo.gl/6xQZu>

*Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programs Workshop*

Ahmadu Bello University in collaboration with MEASURE Evaluation announces
a national workshop on “Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health
Programs” in Zaria, Nigeria. The workshop will be held November 5-6, 2012.

Find out more at <http://goo.gl/Iush9>

*Publications*
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*Beyond Indicators: Advances in Global HIV Monitoring and Evaluation during
the PEPFAR Era*<http://goo.gl/TgmkK>
M&E is fundamental to global HIV program implementation and has been a
cornerstone of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
PEPFAR, in close collaboration with its global and national partners, is
well positioned to transform the successes and challenges associated with
early rapid scale-up into future opportunities for sustainable,
cost-effective, country-owned programs and systems.

*Holding a National Health and Mapping Summit to Build Partnerships for
Improving Health Outcomes: Lessons Learned from the Nigeria Health and
Mapping Summit of 2011* <http://goo.gl/xRWp4>
In order to help organize a similar event in other countries, this document
outlines the key steps for planning and holding the Nigeria Health and
Mapping Summit of 2011, held in Abuja, Nigeria. MEASURE Evaluation
collaborated with the Federal Republic of Nigeria to hold the summit
between the health sector and mapping sector in that country.

*Using UNAIDS’s Organizing Framework to Assess Nigeria’s National HIV
Monitoring and Evaluation System*<http://goo.gl/JrurU>
The Nigeria National Response Management Information System (NNRIMS),
developed in 2004 as a framework for monitoring and evaluating the
country’s response to HIV, does not function at an optimum level due to
several challenges, including a confusing proliferation of vertical
reporting systems, competition among sectors, and the nascent nature of the
M&E sub-systems within many institutions. An assessment of the existing M&E
system was conducted to verify whether the system has the capacities to
provide essential data for monitoring the epidemic and identifying critical
programming gaps.

*Gender Equality and Childbirth in a Health Facility: Nigeria and MDG5* <
http://goo.gl/m5wLs>
This paper examined how addressing gender equality can lead to reductions
in maternal mortality in Nigeria through an increased use of facility
delivery. Because the majority of maternal complications cannot be
predicted and often arise suddenly during labor, delivery and the immediate
postpartum period, childbirth in a health facility is key to reducing
maternal mortality. This paper used data from the 2008 Nigeria Demographic
and Health Survey to examine associations of gender measures on the
utilization of facility delivery after controlling for sociodemographic
factors.

*Performance Management Plans: A Checklist for Quality Assessment *<
http://goo.gl/Dv8ET>
A performance management plan (PMP) establishes guidelines for the
collection of specific information that will be used to assess program or
project progress and guide decision making. A 14-item checklist provide in
this guide is designed to help managers decide whether or not a document
has the basic characteristics of a good PMP.

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