Data and Monitoring Tools

Monitoring and research are essential processes in ensuring the relevance and effectiveness of programs, and the scope and type of service provision. They are integral components of analysis, strategic planning, and implementation for government and non-governmental organisations seeking to effect change, support or provide services.

Monitoring is an on-going process of gathering information e.g. statistics and tracking inputs and outputs, enabling the evaluation of what is working, and providing a mechanism for accountability. Combined with research, it facilitates the planning of improved resource allocation and service delivery. Research and monitoring can also help raise awareness of the gravity of a situation, both nationally and internationally. It should help convince those who are putting time, energy and money into supporting programmes that their efforts are worthwhile and should be continued.

Results of monitoring and evaluation should be fed directly back into programmes to correct weaknesses and improve performance. The outcomes of research and monitoring should also help improve child care policies. Results can be used to inform future programme design, prompting a decision to replicate an effective intervention in other areas or to discontinue an intervention because it is expensive and not making any beneficial changes.

The literature in this section provides statistical data on vulnerable children from a wide range of sources, as well as guidance and examples of data collection, indicators, analysis, and research methods regarding issues relating to vulnerable children.

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Tracking Progress Initiative: Monitoring the Guidelines’ Implementation

Florence Martin, ISS Monthly Review, 01 Mar 2015

The February-March 2015 double edition of the ISS Monthly Review includes an article by Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, which provides a brief overview of the Tracking Progress project and potential implications for users of the tool.

Orphans and Ebola: Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis

David K. Evans and Anna Popova - World Bank , 01 Feb 2015

This paper combines data on the age distribution of current and projected mortality from Ebola with the fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the number of orphans in these three countries.

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Orphanhood and Living Arrangements of Children in Nepal

Arjun Mani Guragain, Binita Kumari Paudel, Apiradee Lim & Chamnein Choonpradub - Asian Social Science, 20 Jan 2015

This study aimed to examine the living arrangement of children (both orphan & non-orphan) based on a nationally representative Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) 2006 and 2011.

Orphanhood and Living Arrangements of Children in Nepal | Guragain | Asian Social Science

MEASURE Evaluation Caregiver Questionnaire

MEASURE Evaluation, 2015

The caregiver questionnaire is intended for use as one of the OVC survey tools developed by MEASURE Evaluation, with support from the OVC technical working group of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

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Évaluer la Separation dans les Situations d'Urgence Rapport de synthèse sur le projet pilote République démocratique du Congo Méthode d'estimation basée dans la communauté Août-octobre 2014

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian, Craig Spencer and Anna Skeels - USAID, Save the Children, CPC Learning Network, Columbia University, 2015

Le présent document rend compte de l'essai sur le terrain de la méthode de surveillance basée dans la communauté au Nord-Kivu, en République démocratique du Congo (RDC).

Measuring Separation in Emergencies: Pilot Summary Report Democratic Republic of Congo Population-Based Estimation Method July-August 2014

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian, Craig Spencer and Anna Skeels - USAID, Save the Children, CPC Learning Network, Columbia University, 2015

This document reports on the field testing of the population-based estimation method (or ‘estimation method’) in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

MEASURE Evaluation: Survey Tools for OVC Programs

MEASURE Evaluation, 2015

New indicators and tools developed by MEASURE Evaluation, with support from the OVC technical working group of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), simplify and standardize the data needed to set measurable goals for an OVC intervention.

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Measuring Separation in Emergencies: Pilot Summary Report Democratic Republic of Congo Community-Based Surveillance Method August - October 2014

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian, Craig Spencer and Anna Skeels - USAID, Save the Children, CPC Learning Network, Columbia University, 2015

This pilot summary document reports on the field testing of the community-based surveillance method in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

South African Child Gauge 2015

De Lannoy A, Swartz S, Lake L & Smith C (eds) 2015 - Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2015

The South African Child Gauge is the only publication in the country that provides an annual snap-shot of the status of South Africa’s children.

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Medición y monitoreo de la desinstitucionalización de niñas, niños y adolescentes: La herramienta y su aplicación en países de América Latina y el Caribe.

RELAF y UNICEF, 2015

El objetivo del estudio es presentar el proceso de construcción de una herramienta para medir la institucionalización en forma rápida, a partir de información existente en los países y mostrar los principales datos que se obtuvieron.