Monitoring and Evaluation

The GSA M&E WG is a convening, enabling and coordinating platform for monitoring and evaluation managers, researchers and stakeholders working on the monitoring, evaluation and learning arm of schistosomiasis elimination programmes.

The purpose of the group is to leverage a community of practice approach to facilitate the development and implementation of evidence-based M&E strategies and operational frameworks to guide the implementation of programmes to control and eliminate schistosomiasis.

This includes being the forum for schistosomiasis technical knowledge sharing to:

• Facilitate and strengthen ways to measure progress and evaluate interventions.
• Enable learn & adapt approaches to current and future challenges.
• Support meeting verification/validation requirements for schistosomiasis elimination as a public health problem and interruption of transmission.

The priorities of the GSA M&E WG include but are not limited to:

• Share and facilitate preferred practice/ operational framework for precision mapping.
• Share and facilitate preferred practice/ operational framework for impact assessments.
• Support the identification of appropriate diagnostics and sampling strategy tailored to epidemiological and programmatic setting.
• Identify operational research needed for precision mapping and impact assessments.
• Promote data sharing with ESPEN and standardization of data by setting and goal.
• Advocate for research into practical measurable indicators and monitoring for complicated morbidity e.g. for FGS and severe schistosomiasis.