Summative Evaluation of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program 2004-2009

1

Continue monitoring threats to maternal and child health:

It is recommended that CPNP continue monitoring threats to maternal and infant health so as to inform implementation and enable the program to adapt and respond to emerging health priorities.

Agree

• Assess these public health priorities to improve delivery and implementation of program activities and services.

• Conduct specific analyses and annual reviews of data gathered from on-going program monitoring and performance measurement tools (and additional surveillance data) to determine the contribution of CPNP on public health priority issue areas

• Spring 2011

Manager, Evaluation and Corporate Reporting Unit, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Centre for Health Promotion

Director General, Centre for Health Promotion

N / A

(Part of annual performance measurement contracting)

2

Continue data collection to support planning, performance reporting and evaluation:

It is recommended that the CPNP continue to collect data to support planning, performance reporting, and evaluation, including:

• Ongoing collection of the new Integrated National Evaluation Tool (INET) and Welcome Card;
• Exploration of other strategies to measure broader or longer-term outcomes; and
• Periodic review of tools to ensure the data they seek respect the program logic and are responsive to the information needs of the program.

Agree

• Continue to collect and report on the INET for the renewal period (up to March 2012).
• Build the framework for a continued analysis of CPNP.

• Assess and revise INET to incorporate emerging public health priorities

• Winter 2009

Manager, Evaluation and Corporate Reporting Unit, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Centre for Health Promotion

Director General, Centre for Health Promotion

TBD

(Contingent on long-term decisions on community investments in maternal and child health)

• Projects to report on fiscal 2009-10 activities

• Spring 2010

• Manage receipt and verification of project data

• Summer 2010

• Aggregate national data and national reporting

• Winter 2010

• Complete a comprehensive recommendations report on CPNP evaluation

• Spring 2010

• Establish a renewed CPNP Evaluation Strategy

• Spring 2012

3

Undertake further study to identify the most effective delivery models within the overall program design:

It is recommended that further study/analysis be undertaken to:

• Explore quantitative observations through qualitative health impact analysis;
• Identify a typology of promising delivery models within the overall program design;
• Determine relationships between maternal risk, program exposure, and outcomes; and
• Further develop economic assessment of impacts associated with the program.

Agree

• Build the framework for a continued analysis of CPNP.

• Complete a comprehensive recommendations report on CPNP evaluation

• Spring 2010

Manager, Evaluation and Corporate Reporting Unit, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Centre for Health Promotion

Director General, Centre for Health Promotion

TBD

(Contingent on long-term decisions on community investments in maternal and child health)

• Assess CPNP foundational outcome documentation:
  • Logic Model Review
  • Review of CPNP Impact Analysis Methodology and Design
  • Evaluation Best Practices
    

• Spring 2011

• Establish a renewed CPNP Evaluation Strategy

• Spring 2012

4

Consider evaluation findings in decisions regarding future PHAC investments in maternal and child health:

It is recommended that all results of this Summative evaluation, including key findings, conclusions, and limitations of the analysis, be considered in the context of long-term decisions regarding future PHAC investments in maternal, infant and child health.

Agree

• Assess key findings, limitations and recommendations to integrate into any learning to inform long-term decisions on community investments in maternal, infant and child health within PHAC.

• Provide detailed briefing(s) and analysis to PHAC Senior Management to inform long-term programmatic decisions

• Spring 2010

Manager, Evaluation and Corporate Reporting Unit, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Centre for Health Promotion

Director General, Centre for Health Promotion

TBD

(Contingent on long-term decisions on community investments in maternal and child health)

5

Consider findings on the economic benefits of early intervention and adequacy of current CPNP funding levels in decisions regarding future PHAC investments in maternal and child health:

It is recommended that consideration be given to the economic benefits of early intervention as well as a review the economic realities of current funding levels of CPNP to inform future PHAC investments in maternal, infant and child health.

Agree

• Assess key findings on economic analysis to integrate into any learning to inform long-term decisions on community investments in maternal, infant and child health within PHAC.

• Provide detailed briefing(s) and analysis to PHAC Senior Management to inform long-term programmatic decisions

• Spring 2010

Manager, Evaluation and Corporate Reporting Unit, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Centre for Health Promotion

Director General, Centre for Health Promotion

TBD

(Contingent on long-term decisions on community investments in maternal and child health)

6

Position evaluation to meet the mandate of the 2009 Treasury Board Policy on Evaluation:

It is recommended that any future evaluation of CPNP be positioned to meet the mandate of the 2009 Treasury Board Policy on Evaluation.

 Agree

• Align CPNP evaluation into a broader PHAC evaluation strategy to respond the new Treasury Board mandate

• Create a Centre for Health Promotion (CHP) Evaluation and Planning Work Group including National and Regional representation

• Winter 2009

Manager, Evaluation and Corporate Reporting Unit, Division of Childhood and Adolescence, Centre for Health Promotion

Director General, Centre for Health Promotion

N/A

• Provide DCA input to CHP evaluation priorities and work plan inclusive of any future requirements to demonstrate CPNP accountability

• Annual

TBD

(Contingent on long-term planning for evaluation)