Monitoring
Abt Global’s monitoring expertise is a pivotal element in our robust approach, enabling superior outcomes and providing time-sensitive data for informed decision-making in contexts around the world. Abt generates high-quality data that help craft theories of change, assess program performance, and design surveys and monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for complex data management. Our monitoring approach uses qualitative and quantitative methods to facilitate reflective learning and adaptive management. From public health and environment to housing and agriculture, Abt’s experts use fit-for-purpose approaches to generate usable insights for equitable, resilient, sustainable, and secure societies.
Expertise
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (Mel)
- Performance Monitoring
- Complexity Aware Monitoring
- Client and Community Surveys
- Data Quality and Analytics
- Mel Systems
Clients Include
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
United States National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Our Work
Better access to capital for women’s businesses and reduced policy barriers in the Abt-led Investing in Women initiative in Southeast Asia
Leading implementer for malaria control, protecting 5 million people a year in 21 countries through insecticide spraying and treated nets
Calculation of home dialysis and transplant rates for benchmarking to adjust payments, based on tracking of Medicare claims and administrative data
Use of data collected on Nepal’s National Health Sector Strategy’s performance to make continuous improvements and adaptations
Development and maintenance of quality standards for home and hospice care for Medicare recipients, based on data monitoring
Our Experts
Technical Adviser for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL), Abt Australia
Insights
Spotlight On: Monitoring
Abt Global offers its clients around the world deep expertise in monitoring. It’s a key component of our rigorous approach to performance management.
Monitoring Adult Vaccine Use Helps Save Lives
Abt Global conducts annual online surveys among pregnant people and health care personnel on vaccination use and attitudes toward vaccines.
Monitoring Flu Vaccination Coverage among Pregnant Women and Health Care Personnel
Pregnant woman and health care personnel (HCP) need flu shots, yet coverage for these groups historically has been below national targets. Without shots, the groups’ health risks soar. Pregnant women who get the flu not only can contract severe diseases…
Tracking COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Infants
Pregnant women may be more vulnerable than the general population to respiratory infections and severe respiratory complications from COVID-19, and CDC needs more research on their potential effects on birth outcomes to continue to guide the public. In…
Monitoring Ecological and Socioeconomic Effects of Coastal Restoration
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) wanted to understand the socioeconomic effects of 38 restoration projects funded through its Hurricane Sandy Resiliency Grant Program. The goal was to ensure accountability of Department of Interior…
What to Know About Malaria in the U.S.
Experts dive into what readers should know about the recent malaria outbreak in the U.S., such as symptoms to monitor and current surveillance practices in place for infectious disease crises.
Climate Change, Malaria, & Data: Getting Ahead of the Spread
Abt’s Caroline Staub and Matt Kirby discuss how climatological data can be used to help combat the spread of malaria resulting from climate change.
Breathless: Climate Change, Infectious Disease, and Indoor Air Quality
To reduce greenhouse gases, we need air-tight buildings. To reduce transmission of diseases we need better circulation. In this podcast we discuss the balance.