Data Use: Stories from Practice

This session brings together stories from experience and practice in the field around using routine data. We will share how data is being used in practice, for what purpose and by whom. Different strategies and activities to promote use at different levels, different feedback and communication mechanisms, and designing for data use will be amongst the topics raised and discussed.

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Check out Strengthening Routine Health Information System Using DHIS2 Platform in Lumbini Province, Nepal (Strengthening Routine Health Information System Using DHIS2 Platform in Lumbini Province, Nepal). Yangzi Sherpa will present on this topic in this session.

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Welcome to the DHIS2 CoP @elaineb :wave:

Thanks for sharing this implementation use-case :+1:

Q& A from the live sessions:
Q: How do we bring on board other data sources apart from the routine data (HMIS) into DHIS2?
A: In Tanzania the challenges were how to bring in data from other sources, and we managed. (1) We receive annual population projections data from the National Bureau of Statistics and we , (2) We also receive quarterly service data from EPI/vaccination and from NHIF/Health Financing and we upload it into the system (quarterly.)

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Q & A from live sessions:
Q: How should we address the HEALTH FACILITY DENOMINATOR challenge in DHIS2?
A: Join the next session where this is the topic under discussion - The DHIS2 Annual Conference: Population Mapping, Micro Planning & Den...

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