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B Oversight and Coordination Strategy
Pages 200-206

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From page 200...
... projects, but it is also relevant for evaluations of He media campaign and the counseling and testing program. We believe Mat coordinated results from the individual sites, and especially the cross-site results, can lead to the development of sound health education and risk reduction policy.
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From page 201...
... believes that the potential benefits of such an approach more than justify its use. THE PROJECT REVIEW TEAM Three major missions seem appropriate and feasible for the project review team: · overseeing the progress of each project's evaluation experiments; · conducting periodic, confinnatory reanalysis of the evaluative data produced by the project experiments; and · undertaking cross-site analyses of all project evaluations.
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From page 202...
... OPERATIONS As a practical matter, carrying out He oversight functions will require considerable effort by a number of actors: CBO staffs, the principal investigators responsible for the evaluation experiment at each site, the project review team, and at least one senior CDC staff person with research or evaluation expertise. First, quarterly meetings of the team, the CBO staffs, pnncipa]
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From page 203...
... The specific products of Be project review team process described above are the following: · reports to CDC on the progress of project evaluations; · verification or disconfinnation of project evaluations conducted by the sites and reported to CDC; advice to CDC on individual project perfonnance and justification and on continuance of each evaluation; and cross-site analyses for policy decisions. The result of a team approach is better evaluative data, more knowledgeable projects, and a Beater understanding of what makes a difference and what works better to reduce high-risk behavior.
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From page 204...
... Here again, the project review team is likely to be a useful option and a more valuable approach than an advisory board, especially if the projects are independent members of a loosely orgaruzed cooperative group. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION The project review team approach to evaluation project coordination and oversight is relevant to conducting independent multisite experiments to compare different approaches to reducing the risk of HIV transmission.
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From page 205...
... Such coordination provides opportunities for the development of local expertise in conducting controlled expenments, an expertise that will, in the Tong run, enhance local and societal understanding of how to generate sound evidence about what interventions work. An alternative approach a contract with a single large organization that is employed to develop cooperation and run the experiments locally generally leads to less local learning (Boruch, Dennis, and Carter-Greer, 1988)
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From page 206...
... (1989) Coordinating tile Spouse Assault Replication Projects: The Project Review Team.
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