The Baduta Program Outcomes Aang Sutrisna1, Fiona Kotvojs2, Ardhiani Dyah Priamsari1, Alison Tumilowicz1, 1 Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) 2 Kurrajong Hill Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia Background • The Baduta Program (2014-2017) is a package of social behavior change intervention implemented in East Java aimed at preventing child undernutrition • Most Significant Change (MSC), a story based participatory form of qualitative evaluation developed by Davies (1995), was introduced into Baduta in 2016 and used Provincial TV and video to provide feedback MSC Story in Baduta • 236 Story tellers (mothers, community cadres, and health workers) • Collected by 75 Paramitra village facilitators, 6 StC’s and 6 Nazava’s program officers • Bi-monthly gradual selection processes (with 6 sub-districts, 2 districts and provincial stakeholders) • 84 stories get passed up the hierarchy, but only 23 documented in short video • 11 one-hour monthly talk- shows aired at local TV often publicly screened at featured village Description of multimedia A Provincial TV station developed quality video for each story selected as a MSC by: • Visited the story teller to validate the story • Developed the script, • Engaged the actual people involved in the change, and • Filmed the story. In all cases, it was described as a very public event with everyone in the village knowing about the filming. The Study • Question: whether the application of MSC on the program directly contributed to the program’s outcomes? • Six case studies randomly selected from those stories the selection panel identified as representing the most significant change at the highest panel. • Each of case studies was paired with another case study (a total 12 case studies) • For each case study, between 8 and 15 people were interviewed making a total of 112 interviewees The Study Result • MSC feedback process contributed most to both planned and unplanned changes • The process associated with making the video and viewing the video both directly contributed to Baduta’s expected and unexpected outcomes • The case studies for which there was no video developed did not report any change as a result of feedback • The application of MSC on the Baduta Program in Indonesia was found to directly contribute to the Program’s outcomes. • This was maximised where opportunities for discussion and reflection were provided and through the very public approach of using Provincial TV and video as a form of Conclusions feedback. • In addition, MSC addressed many of the identified constraints to progress along the impact pathway and led to additional positive unplanned outcomes. • The application of MSC on Baduta as a form of evaluation provided added value to Program implementation. Thank you.