Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the COVID-19 Response in a Local Public Health System

Holt, Christina; Fawcett, Stephen B.; Hassaballa-Muhammad, Ruaa; Partridge, Dan; Jordan, Sonia

doi:10.1177/15248399211041085

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“…Participatory monitoring and evaluation and sensemaking protocols hold promise for enabling partners to better understand and address a variety of health and development issues. For instance, we have seen its value in supporting efforts to (a) address communicable disease outbreaks, including Ebola and COVID-19 (e.g., Hassaballa et al, 2019; Holt et al, 2021); (b) promote care coordination for those with low-income (e.g., Hassaballa et al, 2015); (c) enhance health access and culturally competent health services (Fawcett et al, 2018); and (d) enroll underserved groups in affordable health insurance (e.g., Fawcett et al, 2015). In particular, the sensemaking protocol enables stakeholders—including those most affected and those responsible—to construct their own meaning of the data and its implications for improvement.…”

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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the COVID-19 Response in the Africa Region

Phori

Fawcett

Nidjergou

et al. 2022

Health Promotion Practice

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As the COVID-19 pandemic swept throughout the world, it created a demand for information to help understand the public health response and its effects. Limited capacity to see and interpret data—“sensemaking” with measures of progress—affects the use of data for quality improvement. The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) supported partners from the Member States in using a participatory monitoring and evaluation system to document and systematically reflect on the COVID-19 response at the country level. The WHO AFRO’s COVID-19 Response Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team captured and communicated response activities based on available reports from 35 of the 47 member countries. By reviewing reports and communications, the M&E team documented nearly 8,000 COVID-19 response activities during the study period (January 2020 through July 2021). A “sensemaking” protocol was used to support country partners in identifying factors associated with increases or decreases in both new cases and response activities. This report describes this participatory M&E approach and process of shared sensemaking. We illustrate with a country-level case study of the COVID-19 response in the Africa Region.

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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the COVID-19 Response in the Africa Region

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Fawcett

Nidjergou

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“…The public health measures that composed this COVID-19 response included surveillance, testing, case management, risk communication/community engagement, infection prevention and control, and vaccinations (World Health Organization, 2021). The intervention approach used to respond to COVID-19 in the Lawrence-Douglas County public health system is more fully described elsewhere (Holt et al, 2021).…”

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Equity Lens Protocol: Reflecting on Harms From the COVID-19 Response and Mitigation Strategies Implemented in a Local Public Health System

Fawcett,

Holt,

Solar-Hormazabal

et al. 2023

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This report describes an Equity Lens Protocol and its use to guide partners’ systematic reflection on harms and mitigation strategies of the COVID-19 response in a local public health system. This process evaluation tool is based on the Guidance document for assuring an equitable response to COVID-19 prepared by the Pan American Health Organization. We used a participatory approach to engage public health partners in systematically reflecting on harms, mitigation strategies, and lessons learned and implications for practice. Outputs from using this tool included identified: (a) specific harms (e.g., loss of income and challenges to learning) related to particular COVID-19 response measures (e.g., home confinement and school closure) and (b) mitigation strategies implemented to reduce harms. In response to the protocol’s guiding questions, partners also identified lessons learned and practice recommendations for strengthening equity work in public health responses (e.g., an equitable response requires an investment in people, structures, and relationships before a crisis). This report—and accompanying protocol—illustrates use of a practical method for systematic reflection on public health responses through an equity lens.

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“…Monetary rewards have been shown to be the most effective in this type of research (e.g., Benishek et al, 2014 ; Davis et al, 2016 ). Reinforcement or incentives, in the form of monetary vouchers, has been successful in increasing the probability of enrollment in treatment for opiate abuse (e.g., Holtyn et al, 2021 ), promoting abstinence from alcohol (e.g., Koffarnus, DeFulio et al, 2021 ), cocaine (e.g., Silverman et al, 1996 ), opiates (e.g., Robles et al, 2002 ), and other applications (e.g., polydrug abuse, injection substance users).…”

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Behavioral Interventions Contributing to Reducing Poverty and Inequities

Mattaini¹,

Roose²,

Fawcett

2022

Behav. Soc. Iss.

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Behavioral science has a long history of engaging in efforts to understand and address socially important issues. Poverty and inequities in health and development are among the most important and complex social issues facing the world today. With its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations (2015) has focused attention and guidance on addressing key global challenges, including to “end poverty” (SDG 1), “ensure good health and well-being for all” (SDG3), and “reduce inequality within and among countries” (SDG 10). In this paper, we provide a framework and illustrative examples of contributions of behavioral science to these issues. We feature illustrative behavioral interventions at the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. We highlight the diversity of issues, intervention methods, and settings reflected in applications of behavioral science. By joining methods from behavioral science, public health, and other disciplines—and the experiential knowledge of those most affected by inequities—behavioral methods can make significant contributions to collaborative efforts to assure health and well-being for all.

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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the COVID-19 Response in a Local Public Health System

Cited by 7 publications

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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the COVID-19 Response in the Africa Region

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the COVID-19 Response in the Africa Region

Equity Lens Protocol: Reflecting on Harms From the COVID-19 Response and Mitigation Strategies Implemented in a Local Public Health System

Behavioral Interventions Contributing to Reducing Poverty and Inequities

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