Immpact Web Toolkit Version 2.0 released - We invite you to explore the Toolkit to find out more…you can access the toolkit here:
This toolkit is Immpact's story... But the story is an ongoing one. The first version of the Immpact Toolkit was released at the Immpact Symposium in February 2007. We are pleased to announce that the Immpact Toolkit - Version 2.0 is now available, either in CD format (by request at info@immpact-international.org) or you can download the toolkit, by module, by tool, or the complete guide.
Immpact has developed a range of tools for safe motherhood programme evaluation. These include ways to measure maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity, quality of maternal health care, economic outcomes and health systems factors.
This is the second edition of the Immpact Toolkit and it includes two new tools; one for the measurement of maternal morbidity (OAP) and the other for the measurement of maternal mortality (MADE-IN/MADE-FOR). The toolkit contains the original five modules with an introduction for decision makers, generic guidance for design of safe motherhood evaluations and an enhanced selection of Immpact tools, including;
1. SSS - Sample at Service Sites
2. RAPID - Rapid Ascertainment Process for Institutional Deaths
3. TRACE - Tracing adverse and favourable events in pregnancy care
4. PQOC - Perceptions of Quality of Care
5. HWIS - Health Workers Incentive Survey
6. Productivity Costs Survey
7. Household Costs Survey
8. OAP - Outcomes after Pregnancy Study
9. MADE-IN/MADE-FOR - Maternal Death from Informants and Maternal Death Follow-on Review
The toolkit tells the story of the evaluations completed in three countries and gives details on the process of defining evaluation questions and agreeing on evaluation designs and data capture approaches and instruments. The Toolkit is a guide designed to be used as a reference document for those who plan to conduct evaluations while also providing useful information for safe motherhood policymakers. The very use of the term Toolkit as a collection of tools with guidance on their selection and use emphasizes the importance of evaluations being tailor-made for specific contexts and using fit-for-purpose study designs and tools. In complex evaluations, tools need to be selected and used not independently, but as complementary devices which together construct a story. From our experience, one can thus offer broad guidance – as we do here – on designs and tools, but local adaptation, flexibility and interpretation will always be needed.
The toolkit will also be used as a reference document for continuing Immpact evaluations in a wide range of settings. We will continue to learn as we apply the toolkit in other evaluations and as we use the findings of these evaluations to tell us more about the pros and cons of the methodology we adopted. The uptake of these findings and how they will contribute to policy and programmes are the final proof of the pudding, providing ultimate assurance of the toolkit's worth and emphasizing the importance of acknowledging the limitations of all real-world evaluations.
While some of the tools and methods are ready made, others require adaptation. Support for the toolkit can be accessed through Ipact, who can offer guidance in design of the most effective evaluation systems for a given situation, as well as in analysis and interpretation of the data, mainly based on their experience and their involvement in the development of the various tools and methods.
We would like to use your feedback from use of the Immpact Toolkit to improve future editions. Please let us know what you think. You can send the completed form (available by following the Toolkit link) to info@immpact-international.org.
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