Instructions: Each group will take one of the scenarios below, discuss and design an impact evaluation to measure the impacts of the program. For your scenario, discuss the following questions:
- What specific intervention or combinations of intervention would you test?
- What do you want to find out by the end of the evaluation?
- What kind of evaluation would test that?
- Describe the steps you would take to evaluate the intervention.
HIV Scenario 1: Your government wants to pilot new ways to increase the uptake in HIV testing. Some of the methods that have been proposed are (1) home-based testing through outreach officers and (2) the use of a mobile VCT clinic.
HIV Scenario 2: Your government wants to increase safer sex behavior using school-based interventions. Some of the methods that have been proposed are (1) training teachers to teach an anti-AIDS curriculum to students, (2) giving a presentation to students about the risks of inter-generational sexual activity, and (3) forming AIDS prevention clubs in schools.
Education Scenario 1: Your government wants to deliver grants to schools but is unsure of how to help schools make the grants as effective as possible. Some of the methods proposed are (1) provide schools with a list of activities they can use the grant for, (2) provide schools with a training program on the effective uses of grants, and (3) do regular audits of schools receiving grants.
Education Scenario 2: Your government wants to increase student test scores. There are many suggestions as to how to do this: (1) giving rewards to schools with big test score improvements, (2) giving rewards to teachers with big test score improvements, (3) giving rewards to students with big test score improvements.
Education Scenario 3: Your government wants to improve school-based management (SBM). They are not sure whether the most effective way will be to design: (1) increasing powers and responsibilities of School Management Committees (2) provide capacity building training to School Management Committees (3) give grants to School Management Committees, or (4) some combination of these.