Resources

Statistical Calculators and Worksheets

This zipped file contains English and Spanish versions of Excel worksheets for calculating sample size (for one-time and repeat studies); generating indicator confidence intervals for both categorical and continuous data (for LQAS/SRS [d.e.=1] and cluster sampling [d.e.=2]); a worksheet that helps you choose interview areas for cluster sampling and LQAS (i.e, an automatic sampling frame); and LQAS tabulation tables where you plug in your data and project targets, decision rules are calculated automatically, and a sheet summarizes which project supervision areas are above and below target and above and below-average coverage.
Using Quality Improvement Verification Checklists (QIVC)

Using Quality Improvement Verification Checklists (QIVC)
Care Group LQAS Example

These files (zipped) provide an example of how LQAS can be used to periodically measure changes in behavior and provide concise feedback to each district on what they need to continue to work on.
Care Group Budget Template

This Care Group Budget Template has been used by FH as a starting point for budget development in many of its CG projects. The template can help you to remember important costs that should be included in most CG projects.
Care Group Planning Tool

This tool, developed by Carolyn Wetzel, Former Director of Health Programs at Food for the Hungry, allows you to enter demographic data and have an estimation of the number of Care Groups, Promoters, and Care Group volunteers needed, as well as estimates of the beneficiary population that you will serve.
Care Group TAG Report

Care Group TAG Report and Appendices (December 2010): A technical advisory group meeting on Care Groups was conducted on 12/8/2010 by the CORE Group and MCHIP. This meeting brought together practitioners of the Care Group (CG) model from a variety of organizations in order to consider what is currently known about the effectiveness of the model and implications for scaling up. Critical questions for the group to consider included whether Care Groups should be scaled up, and if so, how, when, and where does it fit into the types of systems governments are looking at for community health workers around the world.
Food for the Hungry / Mozambique Care Group Operations Research Report

Food for the Hungry / Mozambique Care Group Operations Research Report: This Care Group Operational Research report details the results of a qualitative and quantitative study to identify the key components in the effective use of the Care Group model in Mozambique by Food for the Hungry.
Midterm Evaluation of GOAL Ethiopia Care Group Project (2007-2011)

Midterm Evaluation of GOAL Ethiopia Care Group Project (2007-2011)
Care Group Final Evaluation

Repository of all Final Evaluation
Accelerating progress in achieving the millennium development goal for children through community-based approaches (Freeman P, Perry H, Gupta SK, Rassekh B, Global Public Health, 03 November 2009).

Accelerating progress in achieving the millennium development goal for children through community-based approaches (Freeman P, Perry H, Gupta SK, Rassekh B, Global Public Health, 03 November 2009).