Checklist for reporting on malaria communication evaluations.

Well-designed and well-executed evaluations provide the most reliable evidence for policy-making. Behaviour change communication (BCC) programs which promote individual behaviour change social norms and supportive environments are a key component of many malaria programs. However there are few published articles about their effectiveness and many are incompletely or inconsistently described in evaluation reports and papers. Further neither existing nor planned reporting guidelines specifically address all the relevant criteria for reporting on BCC interventions. In this document we present suggestions for reporting on evaluations of BCC programs. It is intended to be a companion tool to the Malaria BCC Indicator Reference Guide. This list was developed through a process that included BCC program implementers researchers journals and donors. The checklist emphasizes description of the BCC intervention and rationale for the BCC strategy choice of BCC outcomes methods of creating comparisons and a discussion about the effects causal mechanism and future implications and generalizability of the results. We hope these suggestions improve the transparency of reporting increase the efficiency of the writing and review process and ultimately facilitate synthesis of which BCC approaches work in different contexts.