CHNRI method
Child Health Nutrition Research Initiative
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Overall process
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The CHNRI methodology was introduced in 2007 by the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative of the Global Forum for Health research. The methodology was developed to address gaps in the existing research priority methods. The CHNRI method is developed to assist decision making and consensus development. The method include soliciting ideas from different carder of participants on the given health topic and use independent ranking system against the pre–defined criteria to prioritise the research ideas.
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How are participants identified?
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Participants are identified by management team based on their expertise (eg, number of publications, experience in implementation research and programmes etc). Participants includes stakeholders who might not have the technical expertise but have view on the health topic of concern.
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How are research ideas identified?
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Research ideas are generated by participants or by management team based on the current evidence. If former, usually each participant is asked to provide maximum of three research questions against the predefined domain of health research (eg, descriptive research, development research, discovery research and delivery research). The ideas are usually submitted via online survey and consolidated by the management team.
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Scoring criteria
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Five standard criteria are usually used:
– Answerability
– Equity
– Impact on burden
– Deliverability
– Effectiveness.
Though standard criteria is used more than half of the exercises it is flexible to add or remove criteria depending on the needs of the exercise.
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Scoring options
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Each criteria is scored: Point score to each criteria in the scale of 0, 0.5 and 1 or in the scale of 0 to 100.
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Advantages
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– Simple, inclusive and replicable and thus systematic and transparent process.
– Independent ranking of experts (avoid having the situation where one strongly minded individual affecting the group decision)
– Less costly
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– Potentially represent collective opinion of the limited group of people who were included in the process.
– Scoring affected by currently on–going research |
