Systems approach to monitoring and evaluation guides scale up of SDM in Rwanda

The article “Systems approach to monitoring and evaluation guides scale up of the Standard Days Method of family planning in Rwanda” published in May 2014 by Global Health: Science and Practice journal describes how a successful pilot program to integrate the Standard Days Method (SDM) of family planning into existing Ministry of Health services was scaled up nationally in Rwanda. Much of the success of the scale-up effort was due to systematic use of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data from several sources to make midcourse corrections. Four lessons learned illustrate this crucially important approach.

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