LESSON 8: FRAMEWORKS (HMIS MONITORING AND EVALUATION
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FRAMEWORKS
FRAMEWORKS
● Key elements of M&E plans that depict the components of a project and the sequence of steps needed to achieve the
desired outcomes.
● Help increase understanding of the program's goals and objectives.
● Define the relationships between factors key to implementation.
● Delineate the internal and external elements that could affect its success.
● Crucial for understanding and analyzing how a program is supposed to work.
FOUR COMMON TYPES OF FRAMEWORKS
1. Conceptual Framework
● "Research framework"
● Useful in identifying and illustrating the factors and relationships that influence the outcome of a program or
intervention
● Typically shown as diagrams illustrating causal linkages between key components of a program (shown right)
Mosley-Chen Framework
● Commonly used in the study of child survival.
● Socio-economic determinants act through the following five "proximate" or biological determinants to impact
child health.
2. Results frameworks
● "Strategic frameworks".
● Diagram the direct causal relationships between incremental results of the key activities all the way to the overall
objective and goal of the intervention.
● Clarifies the points in an intervention at which results can be monitored and evaluated.
3. Logic Models
● "M&E framework"
● Provides linear interpretation of a project's planned use of resources and its desired ends
● Has five essential| components
Inputs
● The resources invested in a program (e.g. technical assistance, computers, condoms or training.
Processes
● The activities carried out to achieve the program's objectives.
Outputs
● The immediate results achieved at the program level through the execution of activities.
Outcomes
● The set of short-term or intermediate results at the execution of activities by the program through.
Impacts
● The long-term effects, or end results, of the program (e.g, changes in health status
Example 1. Example 2:
● Small portion from a logic model for an HIV
voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) program
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