Adaptive Interventions to Promote Change in the 21st Century: The Responsive Feedback Approach
Year: 2023
Type: editorial
Abstract: Key Messages Most existing models of intervention designs and implementation lack flexibility for quick adaptation, suffer from time lags between data collection and timely adaptation to course correct, suffer from poor communications between evaluators and implementers within the agency, and lack a forum to have a dialogue among stakeholders to interpret evaluation data and make changes. Responsive feedback, an alternative approach to address these limitations, is a framework of intervention development and implementation that is agile, flexible, adaptive, iterative, and actionable. Key elements of the responsive feedback approach are that it engages all stakeholders in the design, execution, and review of interventions; improves collaboration between monitoring, learning, and evaluation and implementation personnel; draws on an explicit theory of change; has a built-in data collection system to test assumptions in the theory of change; and has pause-and-reflect sessions to engage all stakeholders on the progress of the intervention, resulting in iterative changes in the intervention toward achieving intervention goals.
Authors: K. Viswanath, Sohail Agha
Institutions: Harvard University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4389880539