Table 1.

Timeline of checklist development

September 2017	First meeting of COP on measuring social accountability and health outcomes and a synthesis of evaluation designs for SA interventions identified limited detail and inconsistent reporting across SA studies
November 2018	Reporting and Guidance Working Group (including authors of this paper) established to develop a reporting checklist for researchers and evaluators to improve documentation
January 2019	Reporting and Guidance Working Group undertook the umbrella review to identify the reporting gaps and reviewed reporting guidelines to inform the draft checklist
November 2019	Reporting and Guidance Working Group presented the draft checklist at the annual COP meeting
May 2020	Reporting and Guidance Working Group shared revised checklist with COP for input and to identify worked examples for testing
August 2020	Reporting and Guidance Working Group tested the checklist with worked examples
November 2020	The finalized SAR4Research checklist was disseminated at the annual COP meeting