Table 4 Summary of lessons learned with the RBM analysis

Summary of lessons learned

1) Planning: theory of change

 - Review efficient interventions, what-why-how they worked

 - Beware of time restrictions and cause-effect analysis for every activity of intervention

 - Conduct a pilot intervention to test the intervention package within the RBM framework

 - Keep a common intervention package and add activities when needed case-by case

 - Make a specific plan for community participation based on CBPR

2) Monitoring

 - Design guidelines for every activity to ensure effective delivery of the content

 - Monitor collection of data, phase of every activity, failures

 - Standard monitoring is useful when same intervention package across multiple sites

 - Obtain feedback on positive and negative aspects of IP and Monitoring

 - Monitor all aspects (positive/negative) of each activity

3) Impact Evaluation

 - Analyze success and failure factors to produce outputs/outcomes

 - Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of every intervention

 - Conduct a breakdown analysis of every intervention to understand the progress and particularities

 - Preview time and budget to analyze lessons and determine the effective interventions