INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION Karen Kwok, MSN, FNP-BC, MPH Program Evaluator & Strategic Planner Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
Aug 18, 2015
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION
Karen Kwok, MSN, FNP-BC, MPHProgram Evaluator & Strategic PlannerBoard Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
DISCLOSURE
I am not affiliated with an academic institution.
Questions I am unable to answer: ESL/TOEFL Resources School Admission Policies Financial Aid Advanced Career Coaching
Please direct these questions to American Councils, American Corner, EducationUSA
AGENDA
Audience participation Case studies Group exercise Lessons learned International development approach Program evaluation Audience participation
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
What are your career objectives? What interests you about seeing the
world? How can you combine work and travel?
CASE STUDY: AFTER-SCHOOL SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROGRAM IN UGANDA
OBJECTIVE: What does the program want to achieve?
INPUT: What is needed to implement the program?
PROCESS: What does the program do?
OUTCOME: How has it contributed to program objectives?
OUTPUT: What did the program achieve?
IMPACT: What has changed?
CASE STUDY: HEALTH IMMERSION PROGRAM IN INDIA
OBJECTIVE: What does the program want to achieve?
INPUT: What is needed to implement the program?
PROCESS: What does the program do?
OUTCOME: How has it contributed to program objectives?
OUTPUT: What did the program achieve?
IMPACT: What has changed?
CASE STUDY: WOMEN’S CRAFTS COOPERATIVES IN MONGOLIA
OBJECTIVE: What does the program want to achieve? INPUT: What is needed to implement the program? PROCESS: What does the program do? OUTCOME: How has it contributed to program objectives? OUTPUT: What did the program achieve? IMPACT: What has changed?
GROUP EXERCISE
Brainstorm What were common themes among the
three case studies? What would you do differently?
How does this relate to multinational health programs, communication IT, or international finance in global health? What is a project idea you have? How would you launch the idea?
LESSONS LEARNED
Connectedness Curiosity: more questions than answers Openness: rewrite past assumptions Respect: more similarities than differences
Interdependent responsibility Who should be at the table with decision-
making Partnership in activism Communal identity: dignity, social justice
Lens of health How do you view your health? How do you care for your family?
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Strengths-based approach
NOT deficiency lens NOT disparity of 1st and 3rd worlds NOT charity Begin at common ground: respect, humor Highlight successes to address future challenges
Advocacy responsibility Community self-determination Participatory learning, problem identification,
solution design, interdisciplinary sustainability Promote partnerships with efficient resource use
(avoid duplication of efforts or reinventing the wheel)
Projects based upon only volunteer commitment have often failed to achieve lasting change
PROGRAM EVALUATION
Capacity building Strategic planning Metric selection and monitoring
Logic model Analyses: SWOT, feasibility, sustainability
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
What did you learn today about international work? About yourself?
How do you think multinational health programs, communication IT, or international finance will benefit the world?
How can you ensure multinational health programs, communication IT, or international finance are accessible to all?
How have your career plans changed?
AGENDA
Audience participation Case studies Group exercise Lessons learned International development approach Program evaluation Audience participation
DISCLOSURE
I am not affiliated with an academic institution.
Questions I am unable to answer: ESL/TOEFL Resources School Admission Policies Financial Aid Advanced Career Coaching
Please direct these questions to American Councils, American Corner, EducationUSA
ADDITIONAL GROUP EXERCISE: HUH?
Imagine: Sambonah! Salamet. Que le vaya bien. Pranaams.
Can you guess what the above words mean? How did it make you feel? How do you think it made the other person
feel (don’t ask your partner)? Would you do anything differently? Why is it important to think about this in
multinational health programs, communication IT, or international finance ?