Development Assistance to Health Information Systems Strengthening
The ultimate goal of Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) interventions is to improve health outcomes in low, and middle-income countries. However, impact assessment requires the development of systems for effective monitoring and evaluation (M&a...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/587591484898445420/Development-assistance-to-health-information-systems-strengthening http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25988 |
| Summary: | The ultimate goal of Health, Nutrition
and Population (HNP) interventions is to improve health
outcomes in low, and middle-income countries. However,
impact assessment requires the development of systems for
effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E). As a
consequence, there is increasing momentum toward supporting
national health information systems (HISs) strengthening
among development organizations. The new primary direction
of the WB, as stated in the new HNP Strategy, is the renewed
focus on HNP results. For this purpose, the WB intends to
support the launch of a major effort to assist client
countries to improve their national HISs. In preparation for
implementing the Action Plan, the Performance Monitoring and
Statistics Team (PMS Team) aims to identify and document the
assistance that different development organizations have
been providing in recent years to countries in order to
improve their national HISs. The objectives of this report
are: to compile an inventory of activities that development
partners -including the WB, other UN agencies, bilateral
development agencies, global health partnerships (GHP), and
private foundations, have implemented in order to support
the development of HISs in developing countries; and to
review a sample of success stories in improving the capacity
for collection of routine health information in developing countries. |
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