CaPSAI Project - Standard Operating Procedures

The Community and Provider driven Social Accountability Intervention (CaPSAI) Project study protocol was developed to measure the impact of a social accountability process on contraceptive uptake and use and to understand the mechanisms and contextual factors that influence and generate these effects (with emphasis on health services actors and community members).

CaPSAI Project is implementing a social accountability intervention where service users and providers assess the quality of local FP/C services and jointly identify ways to improve the delivery and quality of such services. In the project, a quasi-experimental study utilizing an interrupted time series design with a control group is conducted in eight intervention and eight control facilities in each study country, which are Ghana and Tanzania. A cross-sectional survey of service users and health care providers is used to measure social accountability outcomes, and a cohort of women who are new users of FP/C is followed up after the completion of the intervention to measure contraceptive use and continuation. The process evaluation utilizes a range of methods and data sources to enable a fuller description of how the findings were produced.

CaPSAI Project's standard operating procedures (SoP) are uploaded here:

List of documents:

Guidelines for interactions between the research and implementing teams (Interactions SoP), 2018

Social Harms Standard Operating Procedures Ghana (Social Harm SoP), 2018

Social Harms Standard Operating Procedures Tanzania (Social Harm SoP), 2018

Guidelines for authorship, external publication and use of data for higher degrees (Publications SoP) 2021

Standard Operating Procedure for Double Data Entry using OpenClinica