Beyond accountability: learning from large-scale evaluations
An article in the Lancet published online, October 11, 2011, which provides a useful overview of the evaluation of the Avahan HIV prevention programme which was rolled out across six states in India. The authors explain the methodology behind the evaluation: “The investigators took a fairly simple approach, focusing on two variables: the amount of money disbursed to the districts that are part of Avahan, as an indicator of intervention intensity; and HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal care, as an indicator of population trends in HIV infection. Applying a range of analytical approaches to assess the association between
