Activity
Preparing Country
Presentations
PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS
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Preparing Country Presentations
Activity
Purpose and Content
The purpose of this session is to give participants time to work in country groups to
develop the outline of a rapid appraisal or intervention proposal that can be presented to
other course members on the last day of the course. This will help participants to develop
a more detailed proposal back home.
Objectives
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
1.
Outline a problem faced in their country
2 a) IF you do not know enough about the problem:
Design a Rapid Appraisal.
Or:
2b) IF you do know (almost) enough about your problem to list and select possible
interventions to address the problem; which will be planned and evaluated
(Intervention study), including a limited Rapid Appraisal.
3.
Plan the collection of data
4.
Plan the analysis of data
5.
Prepare a chart to display results
7.
Prepare an activity time line
8.
Prepare a budget
9.
Make a presentation
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Country Presentation Worksheet
For the Rapid Appraisal (2a)
Based on the issues raised in this course regarding doing a rapid appraisal, design a
Rapid Appraisal. Remember that a good analysis of the prioritized drug use problem,
and participatory identification of possible solutions are essential to be able to
develop a successful intervention to improve drug use in the community. (See
Chapter 4 of the Manual for activities to be undertaken in a Rapid Appraisal)
Please, answer the following questions.
1)
What core problem did you select?
2)
What are the most important factors causing this problem? Design a problem
analysis diagram, and discuss the factors in ‘Justification of the study’.
3)
What documents and literature is available about this core problem in the local
setting, or from other countries? (Focused literature review).
4)
Which stakeholders do you involve in the multi-stakeholder workshop?
5)
What objective do you formulate for the fieldwork research?
6)
What methodologies will you use to collect data in the fieldwork?
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7)
What will be your sampling strategies and sample size?
8)
What ethical criteria do you have to consider when doing the fieldwork and when
reporting/publishing?
9)
How will you analyze the data? Produce a dummy table or chart of the results.
10) What mechanisms and arrangements do you set up to ensure active involvement
of various stakeholders during and after the appraisal.
11) Give some ideas on relevant and feasible interventions (educational, managerial,
and regulatory) that you may want to develop and undertake based on the results
of this Rapid Appraisal.
12) How will the results of this Rapid Appraisal be fed back to the stakeholders?
13) How will the results of this Rapid Appraisal be publicized? Who will do it? What
methods will be used?
(NB Take note of the questions about Activities Timeline and the Budget at the end of this document)
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Country Presentation Worksheet
For the intervention study (2b)
Based on the discussions concerning intervention selection and the points raised in this
course, design a simple intervention (educational, managerial, and regulatory) to improve
drug use in the community. Please, answer the following questions:
1)
What specific behaviors / core problem will be addressed?
2)
Who are stakeholders that should be involved in this intervention study? What
mechanisms and arrangements do you set up to ensure active involvement of
various stakeholders in the entire process of the intervention study? (Make sure
that – back home - you involve stakeholders by means of reviewing the problem
analysis diagram with them and in the prioritization of the intervention(s) to be
selected.)
3)
What are the most important motivations/factors causing this behavior / problem?
Design a problem analysis diagram, and discuss the motivations / factors in the
‘Justification of the study’.
4)
What constraints exist to prevent changes?
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5)
If you need more information, how would you go about getting this additional
information? Please, see points 3-13 of the Activity sheet for the Rapid Appraisal.
6)
List five possible interventions (educational, managerial, and regulatory) you could
use to address this problem.
7)
What sort of intervention would you select? Do a prioritization exercise to justify
the selection of your intervention, and complete below Matrix. (Fill in Types of
possible interventions and criteria applied.) Please note that your ideas about the
interventions may change after having done the ‘limited’ Rapid Appraisal.
Criterion
Intervention 1
Intervention 2
Intervention 3
Intervention 4
Intervention 5
Rate / Rank
(1-5)
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Describe the intervention in detail (include pre-testing!)
9)
How will you monitor and evaluate your intervention?
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10) What sort of study could you use to evaluate the intervention?
11) What would be your study and control groups? If no control group is possible,
explain why it is not?
12) How will you select the intervention and control groups?
13) What will be your sample size?
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14) What ethical criteria do you have to consider when doing the intervention study
and when reporting and publishing about the study?
15) What outcome variables (indicators) will you compare?
16) How often will these variables be measured? How will you collect the data?
17) How will you analyze the data?
18) Produce a dummy table of the results.
19) Produce a dummy chart to show how you will present data.
20) How will the results of this intervention studies be fed back to the stakeholders?
How will you use the results of the study to improve drug use in the community?
21) How will the results of this intervention activity be publicized? Who will do it?
What methods will be used?
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Activity timeline and Budget (For both Rapid Appraisals and Inventory Studies)
1) Fill in the activity timeline to show how the different activities will be scheduled.
(See Annex 1)
2) Produce an illustrative budget, based on realistic estimations. (See also Annex
2)Make sure that you include expenses for pre-testing, monitoring, evaluation and
distribution of results.
Personnel-------------Transport-------------Field Allowances----Other Direct Costs --Subtotal---------------Admin. Overhead---Grand Total-----------
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Annex 1: Activity Timeline
Project:
Activities
Duration
Period
Required human resources:
Available human resources:
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Annex 2: Budget
(NB You can use this extended budget when finalizing your proposal back home. You do not need to complete it for the
presentation on Friday. But it may guide you in making your estimations)
Project
Date
Budget Category
1.) Personnel
Principle Investigator
Research Associate(s)
Consultants (statistics, sampling, etc.)
Field Supervisor(s)
FGD Moderator(s)
FGD Recorder(s)
Interviewers
Data Collection Staff (Quant.)
Surrogate Patients
Review Panel (Indicator Std.)
Secretarial Support
Principal Investigator
local currency units = U.S. $ 1.00
Unit Cost (local currency)
Multiplying Factor
Total Cost (local currency)
/day
/day
/day
/day
/day
/day
/day
/day
/day
/day
days
days
days
days
days
days
days
days
days
days
/day
/ km
days
km (return)
km (return)
Public Transport
Mini-bus
Train
/ trip
/ trip
Trips (return)
Trips (return)
Airfares
Local
International Travel (Present Results)
/ trip
/ trip
Trips (return)
Trips (return)
/ day
/ day
/ day
/ day
/ day
/ day
/ day
/ day
days
days
days
days
days
days
days
days
/ day
days
2.) Transport
Vehicles
Rental
Fuel
3.) Field Allowances (Food, lodging, incidentals)
Principle Investigator
Research Associate(s)
Field Supervisor(s)
FGD Moderator(s)
FGD Recorder(s)
Interviewers
Data Collection Staff (Quant.)
Surrogate Patients
Presentation of Results (Overseas)
Total cost (US $)
Total Cost (US $)
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Project
Date
Budget Category
4.) Other Direct Costs
Stationary Supplies
Paper
Envelopes
Postage
Typewriter ribbons
Communications
Telephone (internal)
FAX expenses
Interview and FGD Materials
tape recorder
tapes & batteries
FGD refreshments
extension cord
Survey Materials
Surveyor training materials
Printing of Survey Instruments
Clipboards & bags for interviewers
"show card" materials
(e.g., cardboard, pictures)
Computing Expenses
Purchase of computer & printe
Disks, printer ribbon
Printer Paper
Data Entry & Verification Services
Software (list packages needed)
Intervention Materials
Printing of manuals
Design of Intervention Materials
Printing of Materials
Outside Services
Computer training
Typing
Transcription, translation
Dissemination of Results
Graphics for Report (OH/slides)
Photocopying Report
Meetings to Disseminate Results
Misc Equipment and Supplies
Calculators
Reference books & manuals
Lab reagents & supplies
Principal Investigator
local currency units = U.S. $ 1.00
Unit Cost (local currency)
Multiplying Factor
/
/
/
/
ream
100
letter
ribbon
Total Cost (local currency)
Total Cost (US $)
reams
envelopes
letters
ribbons
/ month
/ month
months
months
each
total
/ group
each
groups
cords
/surveyor
/form
/team
/Interviewer
/Interviewer
interviewers
forms
reams
interviewers
interviewers
each unit
total
/box (2500)
/form
/package
units
/manual
total
each
manuals
/participant
/page
/page
participants
pages
pages
/graph, slide
/page
/meeting
pages
meetings
each
total
Total cost (US $)
boxes
forms
packages
calculators
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SUBTOTAL
ADMINISTRATIVE FEES, OVERHEADS
GRAND TOTAL
of Total