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Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition Multi-Activity Evaluation: Health Facility Assessment
No full textData for Impact (D4I) conducted a mixed methods portfolio-level outcome evaluation of four USAID/Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition (HPN) activities to provide evidence for health programming, with a focus on comparing an integrated health programming approach with a disease-focused approach (malaria). D4I conducted a health facility assessment (HFA) as part of the evaluation to gather information on health facilities’ service availability and readiness to provide services both generally and specifically for malaria, family planning, and antenatal care service domains
Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition Multi-Activity Evaluation: Provider Survey
No full textData for Impact (D4I) conducted a mixed methods portfolio-level outcome evaluation of four USAID/Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition (HPN) activities to provide evidence for health programming, with a focus on comparing an integrated health programming approach with a disease-focused approach (malaria). This dataset is from a health provider survey conducted by D4I as one component of a mixed methods outcome evaluation of four United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition (HPN) activities.]The objective of the health provider survey evaluation component was to provide evidence for health programming, with a focus on comparing an integrated health programming approach with a disease-focused approach (malaria)
Malawi Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED) Impact Evaluation Baseline and Midline
No full textThe Malawi Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED) activity is a $90 million commitment from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for urban expansion and rural construction of Community Day Secondary Schools (CDSSs). Data for Impact (D4I) is conducting an evaluation of the SEED activity to understand whether there is an impact on SEED communities. This mixed methods impact evaluation covers a range of development outcomes, including the impact of SEED on children who are enrolled in Standard 7 in primary schools at baseline in rural SEED CDSS catchment areas. The outcomes evaluated include educational outcomes; sexual behaviors; water, sanitation, and hygiene behaviors; and child safety. At baseline, we recruited Standard 7 students (n=761) from 32 rural primary treatment schools that will feed into new rural CDSSs, as well as from 32 rural comparison primary schools outside new CDSS catchment areas. To measure the pre-intervention primary to secondary school transition rate, we surveyed a retrospective cohort1 of students 2 (n=599) enrolled in Standard 8. At midline, we followed students in the prospective cohort. However, the construction of SEED schools in the Northern region was incomplete, and the Northern region was excluded. At both timepoints, the qualitative component consisted of focus group discussions (FGDs) with students and caregivers, key informant interviews (KIIs) with community leaders and teachers, and in-depth interviews (IDIs) with students. Rural findings showed positive impacts of the SEED activity, including reduced absenteeism among girls due to menstrual hygiene management and reduced child marriage. Urban qualitative findings also showed perceived positive outcomes, including a conducive learning environment and reduced absenteeism among girls
Bangladesh Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Survey (BAHWS) 2019-2020
No full textThe primary objective of the Bangladesh Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Survey (BAHWS) 2019-20 was to examine and better understand the state of health and wellbeing of male and female adolescents ages 15-19 years in the country.
The survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 72,800 households, and 67,093 households (98%) were successfully interviewed. A total of 4,926 ever-married female (97% response rate), 7,800 unmarried
female (94% response rate), and 5,523 unmarried male (85% response rate) adolescents ages 15-19 were successfully interviewed from the selected households using three types of individual questionnaires (ever-married female adolescents, unmarried female adolescents, and unmarried male adolescents) that were piloted before data collection began. Data collection occurred in five phases, with each phase taking approximately four weeks to complete. Data collection started on July 25, 2019 and was completed on January 10, 2020
Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition Multi-Activity Evaluation: Organizational Network Analysis
No full textData for Impact (D4I) conducted a prospective mixed-methods portfolio evaluation of four USAID/Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition (HPN) activities, with a focus on comparing an integrated health-programming approach with a disease-focused approach (malaria). As part of this evaluation, we conducted an organizational network analysis (ONA) to better understand collaboration and coordination through structural aspects of resource, information, and funding exchange in Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Zamfara
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Nigeria Health, Population, and Nutrition Multi-Activity Evaluation: Sustainability Survey
No full textData for Impact (D4I) conducted a mixed-methods portfolio evaluation of four USAID/Nigeria HPN Activities, with a focus on comparing an integrated health programming approach with a disease-focused approach (malaria). The 2022 sustainability assessment explores how the HPN Activities are contributing to the sustainability of health systems and health outcomes in Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Zamfara states. The assessment used a mixed-method approach that featured a quantitative survey and semi-structured key informant interviews (KIIs). Both quantitative and qualitative findings find evidence that HPN Activities are contributing to sustainable state health systems and outcomes
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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