Transform Program Baseline Survey

PRIN has successfully conducted the USAID funded Transform Program Baseline Survey. Among the total of 8 regions PRIN took the responsibility to conduct the survey in four regions/Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNP/.  All the supervisors in all regions took Training of Trainers on Baseline Survey Data Collection and deployed to their regions to conduct the training for the data collectors.

_{Over view of the Survey}

• USAID recognizes that monitoring and evaluation are key means through which we can obtain systematic and meaningful feedback on both the successes and shortcomings of our endeavors. USAID/Ethiopia and FMOH want to know the contribution of the Transform interventions in ending preventable maternal and child death in Ethiopia. Thus a need to conduct a baseline survey to establish benchmarks for comparing changes in key outcome and impact indicators. A baseline survey is necessary towards creating a knowledge base for future mid-line and end-line evaluations by helping establish baseline values for key Transform program indicators.

_{Over view of the Survey}

• /TOT training/ 
  • The Transform program IPs include:
    • Primary Health Care (PHC);
    • Water, Sanitation, and Health (WASH); and
    • Health in Developing Regions (HDR)
• • The purpose of the baseline surveyis to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of households regarding maternal, child health and WASH; and to establish baseline values for the Transform interventions.
  • Specifically, the baseline survey will:
    • Collect data for establishing baseline values for key indicators of the Transform portfolio activities: PHC, WASH, and HDR;
    • Create a knowledge base for future midline and end-line evaluations; and
    • Test planning assumptions and establish programming gaps, if any.
  • The baseline survey employs both quantitativeand qualitative methodologies
  • Household/population and facility based survey
  • Interviewer administered questionnaires
  • A total of 6,635 HHwill be interviewed (5,315 and 1320 HH from intervention and non-intervention areas respectively)
  • A representative sample taken from the non-intervention areas to serve as a comparison group, with 4:1 ratio (4 intervention study sites to 1 non-intervention area).

   

  PRIN will update the results of the survey soon.