In this lesson, we're going to focus on the first part of the RADAR questionnaire. Understanding a little bit about the history of how it was developed, why it was developed, what it's seeking to do in order for you to get more familiar with the questionnaire and also to see if it's something that could fit your needs. Starting off with a general broad statement, planning and implementing challenges are significant barrier to high-quality household surveys. What we, the RADAR team, have decided to do is to prioritize the development of supporting materials to facilitate survey planning and implementation by our partners. The RADAR questionnaire is actually part of a broader RADAR coverage toolkit in which we have a great number of different tools that are helpful for people who are trying to implement household surveys. You'll see the survey processes at the top in teal, and for each one of the items going from determining your sample size to identifying your objectives and your indicators, all the way down to training materials into scripts that can help you analyze your data. The RADAR toolkit has specific tools and worksheets and spreadsheets and all types of different things to help you both guide your thought process and also to help you accomplish specific tasks. Why did the RADAR team decide to develop a coverage survey tool? Why develop a tool since there are already quite a few out there? Survey methods and questionnaires that are developed by DHS and MICS and other global survey programs, they've become increasingly complex and expensive. These are surveys that are run typically at national level, and because they happen so rarely, they collect a lot of data and a lot of information at the same time, which is great for having national level data that's high-quality. But if you're a smaller project or smaller program, that might be a prohibitive cost and effort for your particular needs. Even the basic modules of DHS and MICS have far more information than needed to measure the coverage of indicators for the high impact RMNCAH and Nutrition interventions. Also, management and analysis of these hierarchical survey data, it's not a very straightforward process. They actually do require some specific special tools. The RADAR coverage survey tool, toolkit, the questionnaire, was developed to provide a lighter alternative, accompanied by this complete toolkit I mentioned before, to help organizations who don't specialize in data collection, whose prime purpose isn't these kind of household surveys in order to help them implement household surveys. In some program implementers, evaluators and funders need a lighter tool that focuses on measuring coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health and nutrition interventions. Now that we know why the RADAR questionnaire was developed, let's talk a little bit more about what it actually is. It's a streamline household survey tool and protocol to generate high-quality data on core intervention coverage indicators. It follows the best practices for household survey methodology, including best practices for sampling and for questionnaire design. Additionally, the bigger picture of RADAR coverage tool package includes the ODK questionnaire, the analysis scripts, training manuals, and other resources. Again, it's a comprehensive A to Z, everything you need to implement a household survey package. What interventions are included in the questionnaire? They are all interventions that have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in reducing cause specific mortality or improving nutritional status among women and children. They're also interventions that we can reasonably measure well in a household survey. Some more guiding principles for how we develop the questionnaire. We were aiming to be able to measure the key coverage indicators for high-impact RMNCAH and Nutrition interventions. We also wanted to have comparable data and some quality assurance as well. In order to do that, we use standard valid questions to the extent possible. We also try to use internationally agreed upon indicators and goals to help decide which interventions to include. We also wanted the survey to be able to monitor change over time of an intervention or to be able to detect the difference between two or more programs. We were also really focusing on trying to keep the survey as light as possible so as easy to manage as possible. We wanted a tool that would still be sufficiently flexible to address user needs. Well, yes, we wanted it to be somewhat generic, we also did want users to be able to use it for their specific needs. The way that it's been developed is that countries or projects can insert their specific needs into the survey. There are also flags within both the toolkit more generally and the questionnaire itself for where local contexts information needs to be inserted. We also adopted a modular approach to allow flexibility in order to both remove or add modules and questions. One final consideration, we wanted data coming from the questionnaire to be compatible with the Lives Saved Tool. It's another one of the RADAR tools that allows to model the impact on mortality and due to changes in coverage. We wanted data that we could use and that would be compatible with the Live Saved tool. Briefly to take a look at how the RADAR coverage questionnaire is structured, it relies on a household questionnaire. The household questionnaire will always be required for the RADAR questionnaire. The first step of the household questionnaire is the household listing, where you do an enumeration within the household of all the household members, and based on that, you can have one of three categories. You can have men, including household members and the visitors. You can have women, household members and visitors again, and children, same household members or visitors. Depending on what your interests are, there are three questionnaires that are available as part of the RADAR overall generic questionnaire. There's the man's questionnaire designed for men, 15 to 49, the woman's questionnaire for women 15 to 49 again, and the child's questionnaire, which will be administered for children 0-4 years old to their caretaker, 15 years and older. In terms of what the actual content of the questionnaire is, in the household questionnaire, the first step is, as I mentioned, the household listing. Then there is a household assets module, a water sanitation module, a vector control module, and finally, household characteristics. For women's questionnaire, it's one of the longest ones along with the household's questionnaire. There's the woman's information, general information about the woman, then module on fertility, module on antenatal care and childbirth, postnatal care, family planning, HIV and AIDS, and finally work and decision-making. On the man's questionnaire, there's the man's information, then there's a module on family planning, another on HIV and AIDS, work and decision-making, and finally attitudes and opinions. On the child's questionnaire, there's the child's information, and then there's breastfeeding and nutrition, immunization, vitamin A, cough and fever, diarrhea, birth registration, and anthropometry. Again, both the inclusion or exclusion of questionnaires as a whole of modules within these questionnaires, and of specific questions, are things that can be done as part of your adaptation process. But this slide sums up the content of the overall coverage questionnaire. In the next lesson, we're going to go into a little bit more depth about the content of the questionnaire itself.
