Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation Analyst Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., United States
The African Partnership Outbreak Response Alliance (APORA) was established with the intent of building and strengthening interoperability between member states, including the United States, by integrating health and defense ministerial lines of effort in preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease outbreaks. The presented evaluation assists in understanding the extent to which military medical assistance has contributed to military-civilian health readiness and resilience among APORA member states. The evaluation team utilized a mixed methods approach to best relay findings and maintain cohesive story-telling. Participants’ narratives were captured through interview protocols designed to deep-dive into the stories of the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) and foreign military and civilian ministerial/government stakeholders. In addition, a post-engagement questionnaire was implemented to capture the Partner Nations military and civilian ministerial/government personnel’s purviews and perceptions towards APORA and their health systems. This presentation will cover how the stories collected from these evaluative instruments were synthesized and merged to create a holistic representation of how and what participants conveyed as successes in cooperation-building that APORA facilitated, how they envisioned future engagements, as well as the challenges they hoped to overcome.
