How to evaluate a multi-country implementation-focused network: Reflections from the Quality of Care Network (QCN) evaluation

• Gloria Seruwagi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gloria.seruwagi@mak.ac.ug

  Affiliations Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-6164

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• Mike English,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-0826

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• Nehla Djellouli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-2314

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• Yusra Shawar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kasonde Mwaba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-8664

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• Abdul Kuddus,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal Care Project, Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5561-0031

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• Agnes Kyamulabi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5865-3798

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• Kohenour Akter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0409-1099

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• Catherine Nakidde,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-3582

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• Hilda Namakula,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3438-145X

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• Mary Kinney,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Tim Colbourn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• QCN Evaluation Group

  ¶Membership of the QCN Evaluation Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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