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What does success look like in a complex programme? Lessons from the Break Free! End-Term Evaluation 
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What does success look like in a complex programme? Lessons from the Break Free! End-Term Evaluation 

How do we assess whether a programme has contributed to meaningful change when outcomes are shaped by multiple actors and contextual factors? 

This was one of the questions explored through the Break Free! (BF!) End-Term Evaluation (ETE), commissioned by Plan International Netherlands and conducted by hera across nine countries—Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Sudan and Zambia—as well as at regional level. 

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Summative evaluation of the WHO Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) Initiative
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Summative evaluation of the WHO Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) Initiative

In 2012 the government of Canada provided a grant to the WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP) to support the scale-up of the diagnosis and treatment of children with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria by Community Health Workers, an approach known as integrated community case management (iCCM). The six-year programme, labeled the Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) initiative, distinguished itself from other internationally funded iCCM programmes by aiming to achieve universal health coverage for all children in hard-to-reach areas within selected geographic boundaries.

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