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

CONCLUSION

Thank you Questions?

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 ?