Application of key IR principles to IRDS health studies for large-scale impact in LMICs
Management and financing arrangements: real world conditions | N=791 n (%) |
Implementation led by usual implementing agencies | |
Yes | 344 (43.5) |
No | 249 (31.5) |
Not described | 198 (25.0) |
No additional funding (apart from usual budget) or plans for sustaining any additional funding provided | |
Yes | 206 (26.0) |
No (additional funding provided) | 361 (45.6) |
Not described | 225 (28.4) |
No additional management support or plans for sustaining any additional management provided | |
Yes | 215 (27.2) |
No (additional management support provided) | 365 (46.1) |
Not described | 211 (26.7) |
Measurement of implementation | |
Included implementation outcome variables (eg, fidelity, acceptability, coverage) | 426 (53.9) |
Included effectiveness outcome variables (eg, morbidity and mortality) | 395 (49.9) |
Included both effectiveness and implementation outcome variables | 200 (24.9) |
Measured change in implementation outcome variables | 79 (10.0) |
Multistakeholder collaboration in IRDS studies | |
Academics, implementers/CSO, Govt./policy-makers and donors | 17 (2.2) |
Academics, implementers/CSO and Govt./policy-makers | 130 (16.4) |
Academics and Implementers/CSO | 411 (51.9) |
Academics and Govt./Policy-makers | 176 (22.2) |
Academics and donors | 60 (7.6) |
Source: Authors’ literature review.
CSO, civil society organisations; IR, implementation research; LMICs, low-income and middle-income countries.