title: African Primary Care Research: performing a programme evaluation.
abstract: This article is part of a series on Primary Care Research in the African context and focuses on programme evaluation. Different types of programme evaluation are outlined: developmental, process, outcome and impact. Eight steps to follow in designing your programme evaluation are then described in some detail: engage stakeholders; establish what is known; describe the programme; define the evaluation and select a study design; define the indicators; planand manage data collection and analysis; make judgements and recommendations; and disseminate the findings. Other articles in the series cover related topics such as writing your research proposal, performing a literature review, conducting surveys with questionnaires, qualitative interviewing and approaches to quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
authors.affiliation: Community Health Division, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University. ldudley@sun.ac.za.
authors.forename: Lilian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dudley
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012107:Research Design