IHME serves as the independent evaluation partner to organizations around the world to better understand how well policies and programs are working and why.
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How do we conduct evaluations?
Our analytic strategies and strong partnerships have allowed us to design and carry out rigorous evaluations that fill critical information gaps for decision-making.
A key component of our work is primary data collection to gather inputs for evaluating the impact of programs and policies. Each evaluations project is different, but most use techniques such as:
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Census and household interviews
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Biometric data captured in specific households
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Medical record reviews
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Health facility observations and interviews
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Verbal autopsies
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What makes our methods unique?
As an independent evaluator, we use cross-disciplinary quantitative assessment techniques to provide a more comprehensive and evidence-based understanding of what’s needed to improve health.
We not only have expertise in conducting independent evaluations around the world, but our team also has a unique expertise in survey methodology that has been used to collect high-quality data around the world to fill critical data gaps.
Visit each program page to learn more details in specific case studies.
What aspects of the program do we evaluate?
There are multiple components to each evaluations project, depending on the goals of the program.
Our reports can involve:
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Process evaluation |
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Surveillance system evaluation |
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Baseline and endline evaluation |
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Resource tracking |
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Which programs do we evaluate?
Our work spans communities across the world, examining the impact of interventions on a wide range of health conditions in high- and low-income settings.
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We evaluated the process, impact, and |
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In Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda, |
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Death certification for In the state of Yucatán, Mexico, |
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Salud Mesoamérica Capturing changes in maternal |
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We conducted process and endline |
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Regional Malaria Elimination We evaluated progress toward
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We tracked needs, access, |
Who conducts evaluation work?
We work with local collaborators and partners around the world to develop and program survey instruments that will be used to answer research questions.
- We have successfully worked with local data collectors in both resource-limited and high-income settings to carry out quantitative and qualitative data collection.
- Our team at IHME then synthesizes the collected data and uses it to evaluate the effectiveness of each program, which we publish in findings and reports.
What research instruments do we share?
To review the survey data and instruments that IHME has collected as a part of our work over the years, visit the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx).
Find a compiled list of the data IHME has collected, including:
- Access to the data itself
- Survey instruments
- Information sheet describing the sampling methodology and project that it was collected for
IHME has also developed the SmartVA verbal autopsy tool, which takes verbal autopsy interview data as input and produces cause of death estimates at the individual and population levels.
Contact us
Work is ongoing for several evaluations with findings coming soon. We continue to seek new opportunities to evaluate community health policies and programs.