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Mar 1, 2014

Immunization summary- a statistical reference containing data through 2012

Subjects: Unicef, WHO
Countries: Global

This reference book, jointly produced by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), presents detailed statistics on the performance of national and district-level immunization systems in 195 countries and territories. It provides an overview of key aspects.

 

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Feb 12, 2014

Effectiveness Assessment Tool for High-Performance Social Change Organizations: An Overview

Subjects: Monitoring & Evaluation, Policies, Practices
Countries: Global

This overview provides an introduction to the Effectiveness Assessment Tool for High Performance Social Change Organizations. The tool is used to analyze the degree to which an agency has aligned their formal and informal operating environment with change as mission critical in order to identify ways to maximize agency effectiveness. The tool is particularly relevant to individuals and organizations seeking to build evaluation capacity, enhance evaluation use, foster organizational learning and pursue organizational change.

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Jan 28, 2014

BID Initiative Landscape Analysis: Current and Past Projects Targeting Data Quality and Use

Subjects: People, Policies, Practices, Products

The landscape analysis of existing projects reviews past and current approaches, strategies and interventions employed to drive the use of data among managers and decision makers for improved organizational performance and resource allocation. The objectives of this review are to inform the Behavior, Organization, and Practices (BOP) activities in BID Phase I, explore links between BOP and the area of work that rests within the Product Vision Team, and contribute to defining the Initiative’s theory of change and M&E plan.

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Jan 24, 2014

BID Initiative Literature Review: Improving Data Quality and Promoting the Use of Data for Decision Making

Subjects: People, Policies, Practices, Products

This literature review was conducted to identify, review, and analyze published and grey literature to inform the behavior, organization, and practice activities to be conducted as part of the BID Initiative, and to inform the Initiative’s theory of change and monitoring and evaluation plan. The overall hypothesis of the BID Initiative is that design and national-scale implementation of a defined technology platform and supporting activities will improve data quality and use to strengthen decision making related to immunization programs. This literature review will be used to expand and ground this hypothesis and guide the development of a theory of change.

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Jan 24, 2014

BID Initiative Landscape Analysis: Annex 2

Subjects: People, Policies, Practices

The landscape analysis of existing projects reviews past and current approaches, strategies and interventions employed to drive the use of data among managers and decision makers for improved organizational performance and resource allocation. This is Annex 2 of the landscape analysis, which includes project details.

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Jan 1, 2014

Evaluation of Effective Vaccine Management for Senegal

Subjects: EPI Plan, Monitoring & Evaluation
Countries: Senegal

A presentation of findings from the Evaluation of Effective Vaccine Management for Senegal (French).

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Dec 31, 2013

BID Initiative Tools Developer Summit Report

Subjects: Peer Learning, Software, Standards, Supply Chain, Tools

In December 2013, the Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative hosted a Tools Developer Summit at the PATH office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought information and communication technology (ICT) developers together with the BID Initiative team, partners, and donors to explore the challenges in immunization systems in Africa. The participants focused on how ICT could be used to address three key challenges: beneficiary interfacing, patient identification, and supply chain management. Over the course of two days, participants shared their expertise and ideas, and discussed opportunities for ongoing collaboration in order to solve these problems.

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Dec 31, 2013

Atlas of eHealth Country Profiles

Subjects: eHealth
Countries: Global

This Atlas presents data collected on 64 of 75 United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability (CoIA) countries. The Commission developed an accountability framework with three interconnected processes – monitoring, reviewing and action. It focused specifically on these 75 countries as together they have 98% of the world’s maternal and child mortality. The survey was undertaken by the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth between June and October 2013 and represents the most current information on the use of eHealth for women and children in these countries. The objective of the country profiles is to describe the current status of the use of ICT for women’s and children’s health in CoIA countries. The country survey tools may be downloaded from the following web site: http://www.who.int/goe. All country profiles can be accessed at the same URL.

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Dec 21, 2013

Tanzania National eHealth Strategy 2012-2018 DRAFT

Subjects: DHIS2, eHealth, eHealth architecture, eHealth Plan, WHO
Countries: Tanzania

The Tanzania mainland’s healthcare system, through its ongoing health sector reforms, aims to improve health outcomes. As part of these reforms, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) has developed its strategic plan—the Health Sector Strategic Plan III (HSSP III)—to guide priority setting and deployment of resources in the health sector. Although implementation of HSSP III promised to produce many positive results, realizing the best outcomes in the face of increasing pressures on the healthcare system requires a fundamental transformation in the way health care is delivered and managed.  

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