[afro-nets] IHP + Annual M&E Review - Request for Proposals

IHP + Annual M&E Review - Request for Proposals

Dear all,

I would like to request your support in circulating this email widely. The <http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/&gt;International Health Partnership (IHP) was launched in September 2007, with all signatories signing a Global Compact to achieve the health MDGs. The Partnership now includes 10 developing countries, 13 donors, and 9 international organizations, and has evolved to become the IHP and Related Initiatives (IHP+) in recognition of the fact that its launch coincided with a range of other initiatives with similar goals. The IHP+ is requesting proposals for a North-South Consortium to annually perform a monitoring and evaluation review to hold all signatories to account on the performance and progress of the IHP Global and Country Compacts to achieve the MDGs.

This review will be based on a <http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/pdf/IHP_Monitoring_and_Evaluation_EN_FINAL_%20June_2008.pdf&gt;common evaluation framework and with the following objectives:
1. Assess progress of the IHP+ in supporting implementation of national health plans and strategies in terms of funding inputs, processes, outputs, health outcomes, and health impact. Assessments will be linked with existing independent monitoring and evaluation processes (e.g. academic and parliamentary reviews, etc.).

2. Review adherence to specific commitments made in the Global Compact and individual Country Compacts by national and international stakeholders in terms of resources committed and agreed changes in behaviours/procedures.

3. Make specific recommendations to individual countries, agencies and development partners.

Proposals should:
- Demonstrate understanding of the IHP+, aid effectiveness, health systems and national health planning processes.
- Describe the proposed methodology, drawing on previous experience and referencing key documents and relevant aspects of evaluation literature.

- Summarise how the review will be managed, providing names and descriptions of individual and institutions engaged in performing the work.

- Identify set-up costs to establish the Consortium for the initial 6-month period and annual running costs for the 3 year period, 2009 to 2011.

Minimum required qualifications:
- 10+ years experience performing transnational qualitative and
quantitative evaluations in the area of human development

- Part of an established 'north-south' collaboration, with work led by southern-based institutions
- Development experience in the African and Asian regions
- Proven capability to work with national and international institutions
- Proven ability to prepare timely and succinct reports
Full text of the Request for Proposals is available on the IHP+
website: http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/pdf/RFP_NS_Consortium.pdf
. For more information please contact Justine Hsu, hsuj@who.int.

Regards,

Bob Fryatt
IHP+ Core Team
mailto:fryattr@who.int

Dear Dr. Bob Fryatt

I am happy to have been told about the IHP M&E initiative. I hope the work will prove to be of sustainable value. I would very much like to help because the issues are important.

On page 13 of the paper (of February 2008) there is a graphic that relates (1) Inputs (2) Process (3) Outputs (4) Outcomes (5) Impact.

M&E is planned for this ... great ... but at considerable expense ... not so great.

In another initiative of WHO there is work going on to create ... also at considerable cost ... a strategic business plan for malaria going our many years.

What am I missing ... where can I find an evaluation today of what the WHO ... and other units of the UN, and the World Bank and the bilateral development assistance community and all the rest said they were going to do 20 years ago and did not.

Why do we do the same things over and over again expecting the outcome to be better ... we don't seem to know much about what was done in the past ... what succeeded and what failed.

There have been successes and there have been failures ... what is it that made for success and what is it that made for failure? If we get hold of the specifics we might learn something ... while if we merely do global averages there will be a report that is an easy read that is almost totally useless.

WHO has data ... but how much value is it? What are we all able to learn from it. What do the data tell us ... in respect of malaria for example ... what can we learn about area specific success and failure. While the global performance of RBM seems pretty awful ... I am sure there are places where progress was made. It would be great to learn what elements went into making the success ... was it IRS ... or surveillance and source control ... was it better health infrastructure and access to healthcare ... where ... what weather ... what else?

I want to help ... but what I want is to help to get data that are existing better used for analysis and understanding. This should be very low cost ... but very high value. Let us please get some data that will tell us how much has been spent (Inputs) what was done (Process) how much was done (Outputs) what changes were achieved (Outcomes) and the value to society (Impact). Let us start to get these data for every community and start mapping what works where and why.

After 50 years WHO and all the other expensive international organizations should have got a lot further than designing yet another system for doing M&E. How has the money been spent ... last year ... and the year before and going back over the years. How much was wasted? How much was stolen? How much was bad planning? Who was responsible?

Do you remember the Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978 ... 30 years ago and we have hardly started! And more recently the Declaration in Abuja ... and the MDGs. Something seems to be very wrong. Let us do what is needed to fix it.

Sincerely

Peter Burgess

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Peter Burgess
The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
http://www.tr-ac-net.org
Community Accountancy
Integrated Malaria Management Consortium (IMMC)
+1 917 432 1191 or +1 212 772 6918
mailto:peterbnyc@gmail.com