Development of monitoring and evaluation plan in national strategic planning for TB control

1. Development of monitoring and evaluation plan in national strategic planning for TB control Andrei Dadu technical officer @ TB and M/XDR-TB control programme dad@euro.who.int WHO Office for Europe Session “Process to develop a national strategic plan for TB control” @ Meeting on National Strategic Planning Chisinau, Moldova, 8 -11 September 2012

2. Why a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan? • Monitoring and evaluation are essential managerial functions in any health plan • The M&E plan is needed in order: • to monitor the progress made in the implementation of planned activities and delivery of services (usually this is a continuous process • to evaluate the progress made to achieve the intended objectives and targets (usually this is periodical process)

3. What to monitor and evaluate? • The M&E plan must clearly define and identify indicators; the indicators are the key instruments for monitoring and evaluation • An indicator provides an assessment of the achievements or helps evaluate the level of some health condition in a given population • An indicator can be expressed by: • an absolute number (ex.: number of notified TB cases) • a rate (ex.: notified TB incidence) • a proportion (ex.: percentage of MDR in new TB cases) • a ratio (ex.: number of MDR in male to female) • an index (ex.: number of TB suspects / HW / year)

4. What are the categories of indicators? There are 5 categories of indicators: • Impact indicators: focus on goals (ex.: mortality, prevalence, incidence) • Outcome indicators: focus on operational objectives (number of cases detected, cure rate) • Output indicators: focus on strategic interventions (ex.: number MDR cases managed) • Process indicators: focus on activities and sub-activities (ex.: number of health workers trained) • Input indicator: ex.: budget annually allocated

5. What should be considered in a M&E plan? • The M&E plan must be consistent with the other components of the NSP and use the same numbering system • For each indicator, the following elements must be specified: • purpose of the indicator (impact, outcome, output, process, input) • how it will be calculated (absolute figure, proportion, ratio, rate, index, others) • source(s) of information that will be used; if it is a rate, ratio or proportion, sources of information of the numerator and denominator should be clearly identified • how often the information will be collected (periodicity/timeliness) • who will collect it • at which levels it will be collected, compiled and analyzed • to whom the information should be disseminated • values of the indicator at the baseline and expected values • at the relevant moment(s) covered by the NSP

6. Examples of indicators

7. What should be considered in a M&E plan? (cont…) • The number of indicators should be limited to the most essential ones • The indicators for which the source of information is not available or not accessible should not be considered; it is important to consider indicators for which there are appropriate sources of information • Indicators for the goals (impact) and operational objectives (outcome), as defined in the core plan, and for all the strategic interventions (output) must be included in the M&E plan • The process indicators need to be considered only for the key activities (most of the process indicators will be considered in the operational plan) • Including too many indicators in the plan may be onerous and result in collecting low quality information