ArticleEvaluation and program planning2016
Planning an integrated agriculture and health program and designing its evaluation: Experience from Western Kenya.
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- Process evaluation improves delivery of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture programme in Burkina Faso.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018Trial
- Promotion of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Increased Vitamin A Intakes and Reduced the Odds of Low Retinol-Binding Protein among Postpartum Kenyan Women.The Journal of nutrition · 2017Trial
- One Health interventions and challenges under rural African smallholder farmer settings: A scoping review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Lessons learned from operationalizing the integration of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions in rural Ethiopia.PloS one · 2025Article
- Core Principles and Practices for the Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Social and Behavior Change for Nutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Contexts with Special Applications for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Review
- How Do Social and Behavioral Change Interventions Respond to Social Norms to Improve Women's Diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? A Scoping Review.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Association Between Nutrition Social Behavior Change Communication and Improved Caregiver Health and Nutrition Knowledge and Practices in Rural Tanzania.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Association between infection and nutritional status among infants in a cohort study of vitamin A in western Kenya.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Qualitative evidence for improved caring, feeding and food production practices after nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions in rural Vietnam.Agriculture & food security · 2022Article
- "Breaking through the 40% adoption ceiling: Mind the seed system gaps." A perspective on seed systems research for development in One CGIAR.Outlook on agriculture · 2021Article
- Improving the quality and quantity of clinical and translational research statewide: An application of group concept mapping.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2021Article
- International, Transdisciplinary, and Ecohealth Action for Sustainable Agriculture in Asia.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Tailoring Process and Impact Evaluation of a "Cash-Plus" Program: The Value of Using a Participatory Program Impact Pathway Analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2020Article
- Understanding innovation: The development and scaling of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in major African food systems.Agricultural systems · 2020Article
- A Multisectoral Nutrition Program in Nepal Improves Knowledge of Dietary Diversity, Sick Child Feeding, and Handwashing, but Not All Practices: a Program Impact Pathways Mediation Analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2020Article
- A scoping review of social-behaviour change techniques applied in complementary feeding interventions.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
- What is the cost of integration? Evidence from an integrated health and agriculture project to improve nutrition outcomes in Western Kenya.Health policy and planning · 2019Article
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Abstract
Multi-sectoral programs that involve stakeholders in agriculture, nutrition and health care are essential for responding to nutrition problems such as vitamin A deficiency among pregnant and lactating women and their infants in many poor areas of lower income countries. Yet planning such multi-sectoral programs and designing appropriate evaluations, to respond to different disciplinary cultures of evidence, remain a challenge. We describe the context, program development process, and evaluation design of the Mama SASHA project (Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa) which promoted production and consumption of a bio-fortified, orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). In planning the program we drew upon information from needs assessments, stakeholder consultations, and a first round of the implementation evaluation of a pilot project. The multi-disciplinary team worked with partner organizations to develop a program theory of change and an impact pathway which identified aspects of the program that would be monitored and established evaluation methods. Responding to the growing demand for greater rigour in impact evaluations, we carried out quasi-experimental allocation by health facility catchment area, repeat village surveys for assessment of change in intervention and control areas, and longitudinal tracking of individual mother-child pairs. Mid-course corrections in program implementation were informed by program monitoring, regular feedback from implementers and partners' meetings. To assess economic efficiency and provide evidence for scaling we collected data on resources used and project expenses. Managing the multi-sectoral program and the mixed methods evaluation involved bargaining and trade-offs that were deemed essential to respond to the array of stakeholders, program funders and disciplines involved.
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