Ensuring Program Quality and Progress through Monitoring & Evaluation
Understanding if the project is achieving what it set out to do
Monitoring and evaluation enables programs to track project targets and provides insights for program improvement. You will need to develop an M&E system for your program. That system must balance the need for a wide range of information about PrEP uptake, continuation, adherence, and infection with the feasibility of collecting and compiling those data. The intensity of data collection may change as programs go to scale.
Tools and Guidelines
- The WHO Implementation Tool for PrEP’s module on monitoring and evaluation provides information on how to monitor PrEP for safety and effectiveness, suggesting core and additional indicators for site-level, national and global reporting
- WHO’s Consolidated Guidelines on Person-centred HIV Strategic Information present a standard minimum dataset, priority indicators, and recommendations to strengthen data use across HIV prevention, testing and treatment
- The PrEP Package was developed by ICAP at Columbia University to support the implementation of PrEP, and includes tools for monitoring and evaluation, such as screening tools and client registers
Indicator Revision
- The M&E Working Group of the USAID-funded PROMISE and CHOICE collaborations has proposed new indicators for monitoring and evaluating programs providing all forms of PrEP as they become available, focussing on the essential performance metrics of a PrEP program and streamlining data collection
HIV Drug Resistance Monitoring (HIVDR)
- The HIVDR Monitoring Toolkit can assist ministries of health, project implementers and policy makers develop HIVDR monitoring strategies and support the collection and testing of blood samples for HIVDR testing