MEASURE Evaluation is a $180M USAID cooperative agreement to strengthen health information systems in countries so they can make better decisions. It coordinates with the Health Data Collaborative (HDC) as their goals overlap in improving collection, analysis and use of health data. MEASURE Evaluation monitors HDC working groups, shares project findings, and identifies joint activities. It collaborates, leads, and shares information with the HDC and countries through various activities to continue strengthening health information systems and sharing lessons learned.

1. MEASURE Evaluation
July 2016
Photocredit:JaneSilcock/USAID
Coordinating
with the
Health Data
Collaborative

2. What we’ll cover
1. What is MEASURE Evaluation?
2. How our mandate overlaps with the HDC
3. How we coordinate with the HDC

3. $180M LWA cooperative agreement
July 2014 – June 2019
Strategic objective:
To strengthen health information systems – the capacity to gather,
interpret, and use data – so countries can make better decisions and
sustain good health outcomes over time.
MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV

4. 2. Improved country capacity to manage health
information systems, resources, and staff
1. Strengthened collection, analysis, and use of
routine health data
3. Methods, tools, and approaches improved and
applied to address health information challenges
and gaps
4. Increased capacity for rigorous evaluation
Results Framework

5. 7. Knowledge management
5. Collaboration and coordination
6. Capacitybuilding
8. Gender equity
Inputs and cross-cutting

6. Learning Agenda

7. Global footprint (32 countries – July 2016)

8. Country action and regional collaborations
Facility and community data
Population data sources
Health systems monitoring
Data analytics, use and open access
HDC Working Groups

9. Overlapping goals
MEASURE
Evaluation
Health Data
Collaborative

10. How we coordinate with HDC
MEASURE
Evaluation
Health Data
Collaborative
Monitor TWG goals
Share project findings
Identify
“win-win”
activities
Participate
in TWGs

11. Activity types
1. Collaborating
2. Leading
3. Sharing

12. Activity types: Collaborating
• Assisting South Africa Department of Health
to develop and implement a national HIV
mHealth strategy.

13. Activity types: Collaborating
• Co-chair the TWG subgroup on Routine
Health Information Systems and Disease
Surveillance

14. Activity types: Leading
Data quality review* - Moving from ad hoc,
disease-specific data quality assessments to
ongoing, sector-wide systematic reviews of
data quality.
*Collaborative leadership, or co-creation, with WHO, the Global Fund, GAVI, and JSI

15. Activity types: Leading
HIS Strengthening Resource Center
Contact: Heidi_Reynolds@unc.edu

16. Activity types: Sharing
Nearly 100,000 PDFs
downloaded
by visitors from
184 countries

17. Next steps
• Continue strengthening country HIS
at national and subnational levels
• Lead through learning and creating
• Share lessons learned
• Participate in HDC TWGs
• Identify win-win activities

18. This presentation was produced with the support of the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) under the terms of MEASURE
Evaluation cooperative agreement AID-OAA-L-14-00004. MEASURE Evaluation
is implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in partnership with ICF International; John Snow, Inc.;
Management Sciences for Health; Palladium; and Tulane University. Views
expressed are not necessarily those of USAID or the United States government.
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