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 |