Chapter 5.6 What Gets Measured Gets Done: How nutrition monitoring, impact evaluation, and surveillance can support program improvement and policy development

Kraemer, Kenneth L.; Cordaro, J.B.; Fanzo, Jessica; Gibney, Michael J.; Kennedy, Eric B.; Labrique, Alain; Steffen, J.; Eggersdorfer, Manfred

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“…International trade agreements can affect obesity and NCD risk factors by facilitating trade for energy-dense nutrient-poor products. Integration of cross-border marketing into multilateral, regional and unilateral trade policies is needed to avoid weakening efforts, and public health interest must ensure policy coherence to have positive effects [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

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“…Results showed compliance with PAHO's Plan of Action for the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Adolescents [12]; specifically, action 5 (i.e., use national information systems to monitor and generate evidence for policy decisionmaking). Monitoring systems allow correction of unforeseen flaws, facilitating countries' capacity to strengthen, develop and implement nutrition policies [48][49][50][51][52][53]. Civil society and academic researchers should contribute to the monitoring and evaluation process using previously standardized and systematic analytical tools [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] across countries to address gaps and inform policymakers.…”

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“…Monitoring systems allow correction of unforeseen flaws, facilitating countries' capacity to strengthen, develop and implement nutrition policies [48][49][50][51][52][53]. Civil society and academic researchers should contribute to the monitoring and evaluation process using previously standardized and systematic analytical tools [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] across countries to address gaps and inform policymakers.…”

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An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas

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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Strategic Plan 2020–2025 committed to reduce children’s consumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor food and beverage products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) and promote healthy eating patterns to reduce malnutrition in all forms. This paper describes the capacity-building needs in PAHO’s Member States to restrict the marketing of HFSS food and beverages to children. We asked Ministries of Health officials or national institutes/departmental representatives (n = 35) to complete a 28-item web-based survey (January to July 2020). Capacity-building needs were assessed using an adapted version of the World Health Organization’s government capacity-building framework with three modules: public health infrastructure, policies and information systems. Notable achievements for the PAHO’s Plan of Action were identified. State representatives reported strong infrastructure and information systems; however, policy improvements are needed to increase comprehensive national responses. These include using a constitutional health and human rights approach within the policies, policies that document conflict of interest from non-state actors, and strengthening regulatory oversight for digital media platforms. These findings provide baseline data and we suggest priorities for further action to strengthen national governments’ capacity-building and to accelerate the development, implementation, and monitoring systems to restrict the marketing of HFSS food and non-alcoholic beverages to children in the region of the Americas.

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“…Using reliable M&E tools is essential to assess the effectiveness of nutrition programs, identify and address problems in program implementation, and disseminate data for public health actions to improve overall health (Jefferds & Flores-Ayala 2016). Other countries like Bangladesh were able to increase the stakeholders' commitment to community-based nutrition project and their understanding of its progress and evaluation activities by adopting a collaborative M&E system (Kang et al 2021) that is supposed to result in a stronger evaluation design, enhanced data collection and analysis, and M&E data that stakeholders understand and use (O'Sullivan 2012).…”

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“…It establishes whether a change in the system can lead to a more desirable outcome ensuring that the new protocol will not fail or even worsen the existing one before its wide-range implementation (Smith et al 2015;Wandner 2017). Furthermore, since the M&E information generated would be the basis for nutrition-specific planning, intervention, and policymaking (Vidyarini et al 2021;Jefferds & Flores-Ayala 2016), it is vital to ensure that data produced are reliable and reproducible over time (George et al 2013). To do this, the interrater reliability of the personnel in using the M&E tools must be established to assure consistency in the evaluation of a particular object or event (Drummond & Murphy-Reyes 2017).…”

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Field Trial of Local Nutrition Plans and Programs Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol in the Philippines

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The field trial was conducted to establish the reliability in producing similar results between evaluators of the proposed new tools for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of the nutrition plans and programs in the Local Government Units (LGUs). To do this, orientation activities were conducted to familiarize the 46 M&E team (MET) members evaluating the provincial, municipal, city, and barangay levels in two regions with the proposed tools during the field trial. After the event, the perceptions of the MET members of the tools were gathered by asking them to rate the tools through a self-administered questionnaire, and by noting their written and verbal commentaries about the proposed system. During the field trial, each MET member, as well as the member of the Project Team (PT), individually evaluated the LGUs using the tools. Secondary data on the LGUs performance scores using the old system were also gathered. The MET members' perception was examined based on the median rank of their ratings and content analysis of their insights about the tools, whereas the reliability of the tools was assessed based on the interrater reliability of the MET members' scores for the LGUs analyzed through paired samples t-Test, Pearson correlation coefficient, intraclass correlation coefficient, and technical error of measurement. The weighted scores of the MET and PT members were also compared. Moreover, the difference in the generated scores between the old and the new system was determined. The findings revealed that the MET members generally have a positive perception of the new system but raised some issues and concerns. Although the reliability of the tools was generally observed, actions are warranted for improvement. The tools generated statistically different scores when used by MET and PT members, and when compared to the existing system. Steps should be taken to improve the reliability of the proposed tools.

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Chapter 5.6 What Gets Measured Gets Done: How nutrition monitoring, impact evaluation, and surveillance can support program improvement and policy development

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An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas

An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas

Field Trial of Local Nutrition Plans and Programs Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol in the Philippines

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