SAFE for Health Institutions Peer Review
A peer-supported, appreciative inquiry into a health institution’s social accountability.
Purpose
The Peer Review process uses the SAFE for Health Institutions Evaluation Tool’s framework of social accountability standards to appreciately inquire and identify activites that are equity-oriented, focused on local population health and social needs and that can be linked to a social accountability health policy strategy.
The Peer Review Process
The Peer Review is an appreciative inquiry that focuses on the (re)discovery of how a health institution is guided by social accountability.
It inquires about activities that are equity-oriented and focused on the heatlh and social needs of those the institution serves along with the structures and processes that would support a social accountability health policy strategy.
A four-member team (one coordinator and three peer reviewers) collects data about the health institution through key informant interviews and a document review. This information is then thematically analyzed, coded to align with the framework of social accountability standards in the SAFE for Health Institutions Evaluation Tool’s and summarized in a final report presenting a narrative of the institution’s social accountability.
Overview
1. Initial Contact
- Review of the SAFE for Health Institutions Evaluation Tool and Peer Review
- Establish organizational readiness (recruitment of key informants and identification of institutional documents)
2. Data Collection, Oragnization and Storage
- Key informant interviews
- Collection of institutional documents
- Organization of data following the READ approach
- Storage of data on an institutional electronic database
3. Peer Review (Data Analysis)
- Data is analyzed for evidence of social accountability and linked to the SAFE for Health Institutions Evaluation Tool’s standards
4. SAFE for Health Institutions Narrative Report
- Report is drafted by the Peer Review Team
- Health institution validates their report
- A comprehensive, organized database of social accountability activities is given to the health institution
5. Developmental Evaluations
- Feedback is captured from all those invovled in the Peer Review for continual improvements for the SAFE for Health Institutions Evaluation Tool and Peer Review
Highlights
- Appreciative inquiry into the activities of a health institution.
- Fosters a collaborative environment, networking and knowledge sharing.
- Experienced peer review team helps navigate, what can be, novel concepts.
- Maintenance of an institutional social accountability knowledge database.
- Pre-packaged process already approved by research ethics review board.
If you would like to learn more about the SAFE for Health Institutions Peer Review or to request a copy of our manual please contact us at info@safeforhealthinstitutions.org.