Assignment Reports
The Operational Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project is an independent component of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme which is seeking to improve the nutritional status of 6.2 million children under five in five states in northern Nigeria: Kebbi, Katsina, Jigawa, Zamfara, and Yobe. WINNN’s interventions include micronutrient supplementation, infant and young child feeding, community management of acute malnutrition, and advocacy to improve nutrition policies, coordination, planning and funding.
ORIE was set up to determine the impact and cost-effectiveness of the WINNN programme, as well as undertaking research in order to recommend context specific solutions to key challenges identified by partners and service users to maximise the programme’s impact on nutrition outcomes. ORIE’s activities include evidence review, mixed methods impact evaluation, operational research into WINNN interventions, costing and cost effectiveness analysis, gender analysis and research capacity building.
This report presents the key findings of the qualitative evaluation of the WINNN programme conducted at the endline. The evaluation assessed WINNN’s contributions to change in the governance contexts for nutrition interventions, including civil society and community engagement. Qualitative data was collected through key informant interviews with various stakeholders such as government officials, health workers,… Read more
This report presents the findings of the full costs of the WINNN programme. The costing exercise assess the costs of delivering the WINNN outputs over the programme’s duration. All outputs are costed from a programme perspective i.e. considering the WINNN programme’s expenditure, while the IYCF and CMAM components are additional costed from a societal perspective…. Read more
This report presents the findings of the full costs of the WINNN programme. The costing exercise assess the costs of delivering the WINNN outputs over the programme’s duration. All outputs are costed from a programme perspective i.e. considering the WINNN programme’s expenditure, while the IYCF and CMAM components are additional costed from a societal perspective…. Read more
This report presents the findings of the cost-effectiveness of the IYCF and CMAM interventions supported by the WINNN programme. Cost-effectiveness is evaluated over the duration of the programme both from a health service and a societal perspective using incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) calculated for two outcome measures – disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and lives saved…. Read more
This report presents the findings of the cost-effectiveness of the IYCF and CMAM interventions supported by the WINNN programme. Cost-effectiveness is evaluated over the duration of the programme both from a health service and a societal perspective using incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) calculated for two outcome measures – disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and lives saved…. Read more
The Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management, has contributed for the past five years to inform nutrition research and the policy debates in Nigeria and beyond. ORIE provided operations research, impact evaluations, costing and cost effectiveness studies for the ambitious £52 million, six-year, Department for International Development (DFID)-funded Working… Read more
The Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management, has contributed for the past five years to inform nutrition research and the policy debates in Nigeria and beyond. ORIE provided operations research, impact evaluations, costing and cost effectiveness studies for the ambitious £52 million, six-year, Department for International Development (DFID)-funded Working… Read more
In March 2016, researchers from the University of Jos were awarded a grant for a new research project to study long-term outcomes following treatment in a Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme in Jigawa State. The grant was awarded by ORIE (Operations Research and Impact Evaluation). Every year about one million children under five years of age die in Nigeria. Malnutrition contributes to… Read more
In January 2016, a team led by Dr Garba M. Ashir of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital received a grant for new research to understand the demand-side barriers which prevent mothers with young children from accessing nutritional services. The grant was awarded by Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE), a DFID-funded consortium of UK and Nigerian organisations. The project will generate valuable research findings… Read more
A recent workshop held in Abuja, Nigeria, brought together 34 gender activists, from Nigerian NGOs and CSOs working at the federal level and in Northern states. Participants came from a range of backgrounds including health, education, agriculture, and rural and community development, to learn more about how evidence, including findings from the Operational Research and… Read more
On 1st and 2nd March 2016, over 150 stakeholders met in Abuja to discuss how to tackle undernutrition in Northern Nigeria, including staff from State and Federal Government, international development partners, civil society organisations and academic institutions. The meeting was convened in Abuja in partnership with the Federal Ministry for Budget and National Planning, the… Read more