Undertaking rapid assessments and realtime monitoring in the COVID-19 context – lessons from UNICEF South Asia
UNICEF ROSA and Country Offices will present their experience and lessons learned of implementing rapid assessments and real-time monitoring approaches, using remote data collection methods, to assess the Covid-19 situation, particular for vulnerable populations. UNICEF ROSA will share lessons of nine recent country cases, while the UNICEF Country Offices will present their approach: community-based monitoring focused on vulnerable groups (India), longitudinal rapid assessment of Covid-19 (Pakistan) and the Child and Family Tracker (Nepal). This is followed by discussion and Q&A with presenters about topics such as methodological trade-offs and evidence uptake.
Type d'Événement:Online
Région :South Asia
Date de début:June 3
Date de fin:June 3
Thèmes:Evaluation Methods
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Government Officials, Non-Profit Organizers, Policymakers/Parliamentarians, Evaluation Practitioners
Informations sur le Conférencier/Moderateur/Instructeur
Speaker: K. D. Maiti
Organisation : UNICEF India
Courte biographie :Mr. Maiti will present the longitudinal Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) mechanism, implemented by UNICEF India in partnership with Civil Society Organizations and community volunteers, to gather evidence directly from vulnerable families living in communities affected by COVID-19.
Titre : Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Speaker:Muhammad Faisal Khalil
Organisation :UNICEF Pakistan
Courte biographie :Mr. Khalil will share the experience of UNICEF Pakistan of implementing a longitudinal rapid assessment with national coverage using mobile technologies to rapidly gather community-level data to inform the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Titre :C4D RCCE Consultant
Speaker:Usha Mishra Hayes
Organisation :UNICEF Nepal
Courte biographie :Ms. Mishra Hayes will present UNICEF Nepal's Child and Family Tracker, a real time evidence generating exercise in the form of a national panel survey to rapidly and iteratively capture data for a comprehensive analysis of the evolving COVID-19 situation among children and their families.
Titre :Chief Social Policy, Evidence and Evaluation
Speaker:Tom Pellens
Organisation :UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia
Courte biographie :Mr. Pellens will share the key lessons of a cross-case synthesis of nine rapid assessments and real time monitoring exercises implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic in six countries in the South Asian region.
Titre :Evaluation Specialist
Détails de la session
Nom de la session:Community-Based Monitoring to assess the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations in India
Session Date:June 3
Temps de session:05:10 pm ~ 05:25 pm
Détails de la session:With the worsening public health due to COVID-19 pandemic and declining economic situation, information was needed quickly to sharpen programming and inform Government to combat a rapidly changing situation. To this end, UNICEF India rolled out a longitudinal Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) mechanism, implemented in partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and its civil society volunteers, to gather evidence directly from vulnerable families living in communities affected by COVID-19. This session will present the approach, lessons learned, key findings and how the approach is being scaled up.
Session Type:Autre - Online presentation
K. D. Maiti
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
UNICEF India
Mr. Maiti, working with UNICEF India office as Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, provides leadership and technical guidance in monitoring and evaluation and the overall strengthening of data systems for children. He brings more than 30 years’ experience of working in this field in the Government as well as with international organizations.
Nom de la session:Longitudinal rapid assessment of Covid-19 in Pakistan. Behaviours, Perceptions, Coping and access to Information.
Session Date:June 3
Temps de session:05:25 pm ~ 05:40 pm
Détails de la session:In order to rapidly gather community-level data on COVID-19 related behaviours and its drivers/barriers to inform the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) response to the pandemic, UNICEF Pakistan implemented longitudinal rapid assessment with national coverage using mobile technologies. This session will present the approach, lessons learned, key findings and how methodological challenges were addressed by adding complementary data collection approaches.
Session Type:Autre - Online presentation
Muhammad Faisal Khalil
Communication for Development (C4D) RCCE Consultant
UNICEF Pakistan
Muhammad Faisal Khalil is leading the qualitative, quantitative and observational research for UNICEF Pakistan’s COVID-19 RCCE response. He also develops the response’s COVID-19 RCCE Brief, the regular set of insights and recommendations shared with Pakistan’s National COVID-19 RCCE Taskforce.
Nom de la session:The Child and Family Tracker, tracking the socio-economic impact of COVID -9 on Children and Families in Nepal
Session Date:June 3
Temps de session:05:40 pm ~ 05:55 pm
Détails de la session:In response to the evolving context of COVID-19, UNICEF Nepal set up the Child and Family Tracker (CFT), a realtime evidence generating exercise in the form of a longitudinal, nationally representative survey to rapidly and iteratively capture data for a comprehensive analysis of the situation. This session will present the approach, lessons learned, key findings and how the survey was leveraged to roll out a digital cash transfer.
Session Type:Autre - Online presentation
Usha Mishra Hayes
Chief Social Policy, Evidence and Evaluation
UNICEF Nepal
Usha Mishra Hayes has 18 years of experience in international development in senior management, policy analysis, research and advocacy gained with the UN, DFID, Oxfam GB and the Government of India. Worked as Chief of Social Policy at multiple UNICEF Offices and is currently responsible for evidence and evaluation at UNICEF Nepal.
Nom de la session:Undertaking rapid assessments and realtime monitoring in the COVID-19 context – lessons from UNICEF South Asia
Session Date:June 3
Temps de session:05:55 pm ~ 06:10 pm
Détails de la session:UNICEF ROSA will share the key learnings of a cross-case synthesis of nine rapid assessments and realtime monitoring exercises implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic in six countries in the South Asian region. UNICEF Country Offices experimented with multiple approaches using a variety of remote data collection modalities and partnerships to rapidly generate evidence on the evolving Covid-19 situation to inform government and UNICEF response. This has generated a wealth of learnings that are captured in the cross-case synthesis.
Session Type:Autre - Online presentation
Tom Pellens
Evaluation Specialist
UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia
Tom provides evaluation technical assistance to UNICEF country offices in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. He has more than 15 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation in various social sectors, applying a range of approaches and methods.