Table 2 Data collection domains

Key Issue

• Parameters for assessment

Contextualisation and understanding of the dialogue

• Policy context

• Understanding of the dialogue

• Importance of the dialogue

• Issues for national and sub-national level dialogues

Governance and management of the dialogue

• Governance and management structure and approaches

Policy dialogue processes

• Selection of dialogue themes

• Clarity of the issue to be deliberated upon

• Selection of dialogue speakers and participants to the dialogues

• Presentations informed by evidence

• Facilitation of the processes

• Feedback mechanisms (reporting) and follow-up of recommendations

Policy dialogue outcomes

• Level of harmonisation of activities of partners

• Degree of stakeholders’ alignment to one plan

• Level of collaboration between national and sub-national levels

• Health systems and health outcomes attributable to the dialogue process

Policy dialogue around the Ebola response

• Governance and oversight issues being addressed prior to the Ebola outbreak

• Pre-Ebola experiences: level of coordination of existing structure, management vs. accountability, successes vs. challenges

• Changes in the nature of the policy dialogues occasioned by Ebola (national and sub-national)

• Changes in the dialogue processes occasioned by Ebola (national and sub-national)