Transparency for Development Baseline Report

Abstract

This baseline report describes the baseline data collection activities, baseline findings and revised primary outcomes for the impact evaluation of phase one of the Transparency for Development (T4D) project.

The report is broken into five chapters. Chapter I describes the T4D intervention and evaluation, and situates the project within the broader context of the fields of transparency and accountability (T/A) and maternal and neonatal health (MNH). Chapter II describes the T4D data collection process, including a description of the survey tools, sampling strategy, and how data were cleaned and prepared. Chapter III presents the baseline findings for the T4D communities in Indonesia and Tanzania. It also describes how these findings were used to revise the evaluation design. Chapter IV details the T4D impact evaluation design. This chapter includes details on random assignment and verification of balance on observable variables between treatment and control villages, a listing of primary outcomes by research question, and the T4D impact estimation strategy. Finally, chapter V presents conclusions and next steps.

This chapter is organized as follows: Section 1 describes the current state of MNH worldwide, and in Tanzania and Indonesia specifically. It explores the use of transparency and accountability (T/A) interventions to improve MNH and positions the T4D project within this debate. Section 2 provides a detailed description of the T4D intervention, including its underlying logic model. Section 3 describes the T4D evaluation, in which the impact evaluation (the primary topic of this report) plays a major role.