Monitoring,
Impact, and
Evaluation
Working Group
ICTC meeting, Addis Ababa
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Membership
Emily Toubali (HKI) and Simon Brooker (LSHTM): Co-chairs
Matt Little(The Trust)
Johannes Trimmel (LfTW)
Rebecca Mann Flueckiger (ITI)
Aisha Stewart (TCC)
Jo O’Sullivan (FHF)
Susan Walker (Sightsavers)
Isabella Montgomery (ICTC)
Michaela Kelly (Sightsavers)
Emily Gower (WFU) – link to TT WG
Lisa Rotondo (RTI) – link to MDA WG
Geordie Woods (Sightsavers) – link to WASH WG
Anthony Solomon (WHO)
Guidance provided by: Danny Haddad and Paul Courtright
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Meetings Thus Far:
• February – March: Discussions between cochairs, Danny, and Paul C
• March 31: 1st meeting (Skype)
• April 29: 2nd meeting (Addis)
• End of May (TBD): 3rd meeting (Skype)
• Next in-person meeting . . . NNN?
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Scope of Engagement (1)
1. To identify, review, revise, and provide guidance in the
usage of preferred practices for monitoring and evaluation
of the activities of National Trachoma Programs and their
progress towards elimination based on the needs defined
by endemic countries
2. To provide requested advice on the development and
revision of the WHO Trachoma Elimination Monitoring
Form (TEMF)
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Scope of Engagement (2)
3. To ensure ICTC database is up-to-date, interpret data,
charting against global objectives and milestones, and
disseminate to Coalition
4. To review global trachoma indicators and milestones,
promoting harmonization in the global community
5. To liaise with the Technical WGs: key indicators and
milestones, review national programs’ progress toward
global trachoma elimination goals, review of best practices,
etc
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Priorities for action and timeline
1. Develop a matrix of M&E indicators for SAFE used by national
trachoma programmes (May 2014 – expand upon Nat. Database
indicators as needed)
2. Review of materials from Surgery and WASH groups (May 2014)
3. Pilot indicators in The Trust countries, refine (June or July 2014
rollout)
4. Review and/or drafting of remaining documents for SAFE
strategy monitoring (ongoing, May 2014 – collection period)
5. Update recommendations to the National Database and TEMF
based on #3 (ongoing)
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Activities Undertaken So Far
by the Working Group
• Review of WHO National
NTD Database trachoma
indicators
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Anticipated Challenges
• Coordination across data
collection initiatives
• Getting countries the
information (best practices
in MIE) they need in time in
a way that they will be useful
• Shifting of indicators being
collected
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Questions for the ICTC
• Are we on target?
• How can we better support the
Coalition?
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