Réseau Pharmaceutique Œcuménique (EPN)

From the original programme design paper, several activities were identified as the focus of the first phase, the starting point analysis project.

Developing the starting point analysis project manual

This included the development and testing of key methodologies and tools so that a manual could be developed that allows efficient and effective ‘roll out’ of the EPN HIV programme in other countries. The manual has been fully tested in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burkina Faso.

The project manual covers the following areas:

• Tool 1: Participant research methods
• Open-ended interviews
• Priority interviews
• Focus groups
• Tool 2: Desk review
• Tool 3: Feedback meeting

Please download:

• Project research manual tool [.doc 226KB] [.pdf 126KB]
• Guided desk review (electronic form) [.doc 60KB]
• Priority informant interview (electronic form) [.doc 52KB]
• Open-ended interview (electronic form) [.doc 60KB]

The starting point analysis and baseline study

The starting point analysis and the baseline study are important for work in each individual country, while the cumulative results are important for understanding general trends around ARVs and PMTCT message management across Africa. Therefore, a standard methodology will be used in each country in order to discover local pictures, and these in turn will be analysed across countries and be reported on to a wider audience as an output from this programme.

Developing programme resources

This includes the development of wider institutional resources and lesson learning activities that are required by the project as a whole. This includes:

• Desk review
• Web-enabled information sources
• Resource mobilization
• Information dissemination to other organizations about the programme in order to facilitate future links and cooperation.

Feedback meeting and identification of next steps

All those involved in the original research and invited participants are brought together to take part in a meeting that reports on the results of the initial study and looks at a way forward for work in their country.