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OPTIMISING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE |
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Programme coverage, or the proportion of eligible beneficiaries enrolled in a programme, is an important indicator of impact in humanitarian and nutrition programming. Over the years, a number of methodologies and techniques have been developed to measure nutrition programme coverage. These techniques, however, generally face similar problems. They generally provide a single wide-area coverage estimate, for example, and do not highlight specific areas where coverage is higher or lower. They also employ population estimates which often prove inaccurate or unreliable. Traditional methods rarely provide an insight into the reasons for non-attendance.
Valid International is committed to developing coverage survey techniques that overcome some of problems of its predecessors. In 2002, researchers from Valid International, in collaboration with Brixton Health and Concern Worldwide, developed the Centric Systematic Area Sampling (CSAS) technique. Since then, CSAS has rapidly become a key part of Valid’s CTC/CMAM support package. Valid has provided CSAS support to numerous programmes across South, Central and Northern Africa.
In 2007, Valid once again teamed up with Brixton Health to develop low-resource methods for evaluating access and coverage in selective feeding programmes. The result of this partnership was the development of two new tools: the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) and the Simplified LQAS Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SLEAC). |
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