Réseau Pharmaceutique Œcuménique (EPN)

As part of implementing the action plan developed in the feedback meeting at the conclusion of the EPN/WHO DSO study, a workshop to develop Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tools for DSOs was held in Kampala, Uganda from 17th - 19th July 2006. Participants at the activity were representatives from DSOs and Christian Health Associations (CHAs) involved in drug management from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.

By learning how to design survey questions, the participants developed a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tool which is being piloted tested in Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania. To develop the tool, the participants were placed into three working groups, with each group required to evaluate the questions in particular sections of the questionnaire for the DSO.

Each group reviewed the allocated section of the WHO/EPN tool in order to:

• Check for and reduce duplicated, redundant/irrelevant, ambiguous questions
• Eliminate or rework prompting or leading questions (minimize bias)
• Appropriately sequence questions
• Allocate questions into the ‘question fit’ tools (one year/ two-year/ six-year)
• Check the selected questions and rate against the identified characteristics of a well-functioning DSO as described from the feedback session of the WHO/EPN multi-country study.

The group work produced rough draft questionnaire for the DSO section divided into the three tools i.e. one-year, two-year, and six-year tools. Download the two-year tool in PDF [48Kb] or Excel [122Kb].