Selection criteria

Which are the selection criteria?

Criteria for promising or good practice

• Effectiveness
•Transferability
•Participatory and empowering approach
•Gender sensitivity
•Quality of monitoring and evaluation
•Innovation
•Comparative cost-effectiveness
•Sustainability

For the German Health Practice Collection, a group of health and HIV experts with a shared interest in sharing successful experiences as well as challenges in their work defined the following selection criteria (see box):

An editorial board of experts from German development organisations at head offices and in programmes in partner countries jointly rank proposals and decide which methods and approaches should be documented. Only those that meet all (good practice) or the majority (promising practice) of the criteria and are approved as ‘state of the art’ by at least two independent experts with renowned expertise in the particular field will be published in the German Health Practice Collection.

Each publication has a dedicated peer review section that explains how the peer reviewers judged the given method or approach in relation to these criteria. At the end of each publication, a summary of this review is given.