Marc Cunningham shares how the MEASURE Evaluation project used participatory mapping activities as a tool to promote local use of data to increase access to HIV services in Iringa, Tanzania.
Integrating Health, Livable Communities and Transit: A How-To Discussion by E...Rail~Volution
Where do wellness issues fit in the transit conversation? What is the link between how we build our cities and transportation networks, and the physical, social, mental and economic wellness of our communities? Participate in the discussion with health funders, community development professionals, health equity advocates and urban planners. Hear how they've leveraged new funding sources for critical investments. What are the politics, processes and mechanics of integrating health, wellness and health equity issues into the planning and design of livable communities? Learn new techniques and perspectives from health foundations, public policy advocates and urban designers and cities in the US (Phoenix, Dallas, Houston) and Canada.
Moderator: Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Senior Community Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas
Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Principal, DIALOG, Toronto, Ontario
C.J. Hager, Director, Healthy Community Policies, St. Luke's Health Initiatives, Phoenix, Arizona
Niiobli Armah, IV, Managing Director, WE-COLLAB, Houston, Texas
Using Neighborhood Audits to Build Stakeholder Capacity to Prioritize “Comple...JSI
The City of Springfield is implementing a Complete Streets Policy to ensure that the roadways are designed and maintained with all users in mind. Building on a needs assessment and “PhotoVoice” community input process, HLA and community partners, including students from the local university, assessed factors in the physical and social environment that hinder or facilitate physical activity in specific neighborhoods. Findings help to guide the prioritization process and allocation of funds to ensure walking and biking in Springfield is safe and easy.
JSI provided capacity building assistance to the Healthy Living Alliance,a consortium of organization working to to implement strategies to increase healthy eating and active living, to advance progress toward 'complete street' goals.
This poster was developed by Tamara Calise,Jenette A. Spezeski, Allison Wilson, Amanda Ryder, and Rebecca Millock for the 2016 Active Living Research conference.
This document provides a summary of a directory of health promotion programs and resources for HIV and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. The directory aims to support organizations working with CALD communities on HIV-related issues. It includes summaries of program activities, objectives, outcomes, evaluation details, downloads, and contact information for each listing. The feedback on the directory was positive, noting it is a valuable resource for research and ideas. Recommendations include organizations using the resource, updating it regularly, and holding a forum to further build capacity and identify programs for national support.
RV 2015: Active Transportation for Equitable Transformation by Gwendolyn FedrickRail~Volution
Can bikeability and walkability transform socially and aesthetically deteriorating neighborhoods? How can bringing active transportation into the planning process bring more equity to a community? For more than two decades social activists and elected officials, alike, have teamed up to improve the quality of life for residents. Hear specific objectives and strategies from Houston, Minneapolis and Orlando. How did they improve access to jobs by creating pathways linking public transit? Or encourage active body motion -- and better health -- by providing alternatives to cars? Learn strategies to form alliances between nonprofit organizations, private enterprise, local governments and local residents. Dare to imagine creative ways to transform your own community.
Moderator: Rukiya Eaddy Thomas, Chief of Staff, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia
Gwendolyn Fedrick, GO Neighborhood Community Coordinator, Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation, Houston, Texas
Brooke Bonnett, AICP, Director of Economic Development, City of Orlando, Orlando, Florida
Russ Adams, Executive Director, Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, Minneapolis, Minnesota
IBM - Meenal Pore PhD - Health Sector Development Partner Forum Talk - Octobe...Emmanuel Mosoti Machani
IBM Research has opened labs in Nairobi and Johannesburg to conduct data-driven research projects in various sectors including healthcare, finance, education, and more. The document discusses case studies using data from various sources to develop healthcare solutions in Africa, such as a citizen engagement platform during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and a cervical cancer decision support system in Kenya. It also notes differences in available data sources between developed and African markets.
Building Successful Collaborations: Using the County Health Rankings & Roadma...Practical Playbook
This document provides an overview of building successful collaborations using the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Action Cycle. It discusses defining characteristics of successful collaborations, potential pitfalls to avoid, and practical tools and resources available through the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps website to help guide collaboration work. The document encourages participants to reflect on their own collaboration experiences and how the discussed tools and resources could strengthen their current efforts.
Integrating Health, Livable Communities and Transit: A How-To Discussion by E...Rail~Volution
Where do wellness issues fit in the transit conversation? What is the link between how we build our cities and transportation networks, and the physical, social, mental and economic wellness of our communities? Participate in the discussion with health funders, community development professionals, health equity advocates and urban planners. Hear how they've leveraged new funding sources for critical investments. What are the politics, processes and mechanics of integrating health, wellness and health equity issues into the planning and design of livable communities? Learn new techniques and perspectives from health foundations, public policy advocates and urban designers and cities in the US (Phoenix, Dallas, Houston) and Canada.
Moderator: Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Senior Community Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas
Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Principal, DIALOG, Toronto, Ontario
C.J. Hager, Director, Healthy Community Policies, St. Luke's Health Initiatives, Phoenix, Arizona
Niiobli Armah, IV, Managing Director, WE-COLLAB, Houston, Texas
Using Neighborhood Audits to Build Stakeholder Capacity to Prioritize “Comple...JSI
The City of Springfield is implementing a Complete Streets Policy to ensure that the roadways are designed and maintained with all users in mind. Building on a needs assessment and “PhotoVoice” community input process, HLA and community partners, including students from the local university, assessed factors in the physical and social environment that hinder or facilitate physical activity in specific neighborhoods. Findings help to guide the prioritization process and allocation of funds to ensure walking and biking in Springfield is safe and easy.
JSI provided capacity building assistance to the Healthy Living Alliance,a consortium of organization working to to implement strategies to increase healthy eating and active living, to advance progress toward 'complete street' goals.
This poster was developed by Tamara Calise,Jenette A. Spezeski, Allison Wilson, Amanda Ryder, and Rebecca Millock for the 2016 Active Living Research conference.
This document provides a summary of a directory of health promotion programs and resources for HIV and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. The directory aims to support organizations working with CALD communities on HIV-related issues. It includes summaries of program activities, objectives, outcomes, evaluation details, downloads, and contact information for each listing. The feedback on the directory was positive, noting it is a valuable resource for research and ideas. Recommendations include organizations using the resource, updating it regularly, and holding a forum to further build capacity and identify programs for national support.
RV 2015: Active Transportation for Equitable Transformation by Gwendolyn FedrickRail~Volution
Can bikeability and walkability transform socially and aesthetically deteriorating neighborhoods? How can bringing active transportation into the planning process bring more equity to a community? For more than two decades social activists and elected officials, alike, have teamed up to improve the quality of life for residents. Hear specific objectives and strategies from Houston, Minneapolis and Orlando. How did they improve access to jobs by creating pathways linking public transit? Or encourage active body motion -- and better health -- by providing alternatives to cars? Learn strategies to form alliances between nonprofit organizations, private enterprise, local governments and local residents. Dare to imagine creative ways to transform your own community.
Moderator: Rukiya Eaddy Thomas, Chief of Staff, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia
Gwendolyn Fedrick, GO Neighborhood Community Coordinator, Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation, Houston, Texas
Brooke Bonnett, AICP, Director of Economic Development, City of Orlando, Orlando, Florida
Russ Adams, Executive Director, Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, Minneapolis, Minnesota
IBM - Meenal Pore PhD - Health Sector Development Partner Forum Talk - Octobe...Emmanuel Mosoti Machani
IBM Research has opened labs in Nairobi and Johannesburg to conduct data-driven research projects in various sectors including healthcare, finance, education, and more. The document discusses case studies using data from various sources to develop healthcare solutions in Africa, such as a citizen engagement platform during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and a cervical cancer decision support system in Kenya. It also notes differences in available data sources between developed and African markets.
Building Successful Collaborations: Using the County Health Rankings & Roadma...Practical Playbook
This document provides an overview of building successful collaborations using the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Action Cycle. It discusses defining characteristics of successful collaborations, potential pitfalls to avoid, and practical tools and resources available through the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps website to help guide collaboration work. The document encourages participants to reflect on their own collaboration experiences and how the discussed tools and resources could strengthen their current efforts.
This document summarizes a presentation on the Travel Encinitas project, a personalized travel planning initiative in Encinitas, California. It provides an overview of personal travel planning, including that it seeks to reduce car usage through individual outreach and incentives. It details the project's approach of contacting 400 households by door knocking and 300 by mail, and using travel advisors. Key results were that 64% of households were contacted, 29% participated, and follow up surveys found increases in walking, biking, and public transit usage and decreases in driving alone.
Monitoring The Impact of Urban Form Changes on Health and Inequality: The INT...INTERACT
Presented by Meridith Sones
Simon Fraser University
Using cutting-edge technology and tools, INTERACT is conducting natural experiment studies on major changes in urban form in four Canadian cities (a multiuse greenway in Vancouver, a sustainable development plan in Montreal, a bicycle network in Victoria, and Bus Rapid Transit in Saskatoon). Applying an integrated knowledge translation approach in each city, INTERACT aims to: (1) understand context of urban interventions; (2) measure change in urban form; (3) analyze impact of interventions on health, wellbeing, and social inequalities; (4) mobilize knowledge to guide future decision making on urban change.
Kestens Y, Fuller D, Winters M, Bell S, Cantinotti M, Datta G, Lewis P, Lord S, McKay H, Morency C, Muhajarine N, Nelson T, Sims-Gould J, Stanley K, Wasfi R, Shareck M, Berscheid J, Gough M, Laberee K, Ottoni C, Poirier Stephens Z, Pugh C, Sones M, Brondeel R, Thigpen C, Luan H. Monitoring The Impact of Urban Form Changes on Health and Inequality: The INTERACT Methodology. Poster presentation at: Active Living Research Conference; February 2018; Banff, AB. (First prize for poster presentation)
This document summarizes the findings of an environmental scan on donor funding for HIV/AIDS and implications for capacity building. The scan found that HIV/AIDS-specific funding is projected to remain flat or decline as donors prioritize countries with the highest disease burden. Donors are also shifting towards integrated health programs in areas like sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health, malaria, tuberculosis, and health systems strengthening. Capacity building is increasingly being integrated into major funding initiatives and donors are focusing on empowering local organizations and supporting knowledge sharing through technology.
Monitoring the impact of urban form changes on health and inequality: the INT...INTERACT
This document outlines the INTERACT methodology for monitoring the impact of urban form changes on health and inequality. INTERACT studies four urban form interventions across four Canadian cities using cohorts of 250-2500 participants. Data is collected at three time points using concept mapping, spatial surveys, mobile sensing, health surveys, and qualitative interviews. The goal is to understand how interventions influence physical activity, wellbeing, and social inequalities to inform future decision-making and advance healthier city design.
This document discusses the development and use of an area deprivation index (ADI) to measure socioeconomic status for patients based on their census block group. The ADI was developed by Singh in 2003 using 17 census measures of education, employment, income, and living conditions. For Utah, it assigns each census block group an ADI score using Singh's coefficients calculated from 2000 census data. Higher ADI scores indicate more deprivation. The Utah ADI has been used by Intermountain Healthcare to assess community health needs, identify high-risk patients, and study the impact of deprivation on conditions like hypertension. However, it has limitations since it uses area-level data as a proxy for individual characteristics.
This document summarizes a health information portal called StarHealth. It provides collated central health data from various programs and presents it in an engaging way for the public. The portal is hosted on The Star Newspaper website, which receives over 500,000 readers monthly. It addresses the problem of numerous health programs lacking centralized data distribution. The creator used data journalism and visualizations to convince data generators of the portal's value. Initial goals of the portal were 50% traffic of the newspaper's site and continued use and updating by readers and the data desk.
This presentation on key strategies for addressing HIV among people from CALD communities and people who travel to high prevalence countries was given by Corie Gray from Curtin University and CoPAHM at AFAO'S HIV and Mobility Forum on 30 May 2016.
The document proposes an app called "Health Is Local" that would capture citizen behavior and health metrics to help reduce chronic diseases. It would provide data to citizens and policymakers to identify root causes and drive better decisions. The app would educate citizens on health consequences, track their behavior, and allow them to choose actions. It aims to create incentives for citizens and close the loop between citizen actions and policy decisions.
Bringing evidence to bear on negotiating ecosystem service and livelihood tra...africa-rising
Presented by Leigh Winowiecki, Hadia Seid, Mieke Bourne, Constance Neely, Kiros Hadgu, Niguse Hagazi and Fergus Sinclair (ICRAF) at the SAIRLA Second National Learning Alliance Workshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 23 November 2017
The purpose of the Aging & Mobility Roundtable is to stay abreast of evolving policy issues, research, and innovative partnerships.
About this Event
Participants in the Aging & Mobility Roundtable typically represent state/federal governmental agencies, mobility service providers, advocacy organizations and academia.
Valerie Lefler, Executive Director, Feonix Mobility Rising &
Abray Stillson, Program Advisor, AARP Driver Safety
Building Capacity for Geospatial Analysis and Data Demand and Use to Improve ...MEASURE Evaluation
This document summarizes efforts to use geospatial analysis and data to improve resource allocation for HIV programs in Iringa Region, Tanzania. Key informant interviews and PLACE surveys were used to map HIV transmission hotspots and locate prevention services. This information was analyzed using GIS to estimate populations served and coverage of prevention programs. Maps showing service catchment areas, hotspots and gaps were produced and helped districts identify areas needing additional services. District staff were trained on using these maps and data for decision making and advocacy to better allocate resources. This integrated approach provided strong evidence to inform policies and plan responses tailored to district needs.
How Transportation Technologies are Meeting Mobility and Economic Development...RPO America
On April 10, 2019, the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation held a virtual peer exchange on the topic How Transportation Technologies are Meeting Mobility and Economic Development Needs in Rural America, with many presenters from public, private, and nonprofit sector backgrounds.
The role of civil society in data collectionSightsavers
Civil society plays an important role in supporting data collection efforts for monitoring development goals. It has a history of collecting information to inform policy and assess service delivery. Recent examples include a large mapping project that examined over 2 million people to plan trachoma interventions and a disability pilot project that found collecting such data creates demand for more inclusive services. Going forward, civil society can advocate for the 2030 agenda, support citizen accountability, and share lessons learned. It also plays a role in practice and innovation by identifying stakeholders, looking beyond numbers to include marginalized groups, and empowering such groups to own the data. Key is partnering with national authorities to promote sustainability.
State of the Social Service Workforce 2015 Report LRNicole Brown
This report provides an overview of the social service workforce in 15 low- and middle-income countries. It defines the social service workforce broadly as paid and unpaid workers from both government and non-government organizations who work to promote vulnerable populations' rights, care, support, and protection. The report is structured around planning, developing, and supporting the social service workforce. It analyzes available data on workforce numbers and configuration, reviews education and training programs, and examines professional associations and legislation. Strengthening the social service workforce is one part of building an effective social service system to deliver high-quality services to children and families.
Promoting Methods for Using HIV/AIDS and Health Information for Decision MakingMEASURE Evaluation
This document summarizes a project in Nigeria that aimed to promote better use of health information and data for decision-making. The project provided training and coaching to strengthen knowledge and capacity around monitoring and evaluation systems. It also helped address challenges like limited resources and uncoordinated data collection between partners. As a result, several government health agencies established new monitoring and evaluation units, and data use led to increased funding and improved services at local levels. Moving forward, the project seeks to further develop joint capacity building and promote sustainable national and state ownership of health information systems.
Oluchi Bassey: State Led Approaches for FP Demand Generation_Lessons Learnt f...GetItTogetherNG
This abstract was presented by The Challenge Initiative (TCI) at the 6th Nigeria Family Planning Conference which happened in Abuja from December 7 - 11, 2020.
This document summarizes a presentation on the Travel Encinitas project, a personalized travel planning initiative in Encinitas, California. It provides an overview of personal travel planning, including that it seeks to reduce car usage through individual outreach and incentives. It details the project's approach of contacting 400 households by door knocking and 300 by mail, and using travel advisors. Key results were that 64% of households were contacted, 29% participated, and follow up surveys found increases in walking, biking, and public transit usage and decreases in driving alone.
Monitoring The Impact of Urban Form Changes on Health and Inequality: The INT...INTERACT
Presented by Meridith Sones
Simon Fraser University
Using cutting-edge technology and tools, INTERACT is conducting natural experiment studies on major changes in urban form in four Canadian cities (a multiuse greenway in Vancouver, a sustainable development plan in Montreal, a bicycle network in Victoria, and Bus Rapid Transit in Saskatoon). Applying an integrated knowledge translation approach in each city, INTERACT aims to: (1) understand context of urban interventions; (2) measure change in urban form; (3) analyze impact of interventions on health, wellbeing, and social inequalities; (4) mobilize knowledge to guide future decision making on urban change.
Kestens Y, Fuller D, Winters M, Bell S, Cantinotti M, Datta G, Lewis P, Lord S, McKay H, Morency C, Muhajarine N, Nelson T, Sims-Gould J, Stanley K, Wasfi R, Shareck M, Berscheid J, Gough M, Laberee K, Ottoni C, Poirier Stephens Z, Pugh C, Sones M, Brondeel R, Thigpen C, Luan H. Monitoring The Impact of Urban Form Changes on Health and Inequality: The INTERACT Methodology. Poster presentation at: Active Living Research Conference; February 2018; Banff, AB. (First prize for poster presentation)
This document summarizes the findings of an environmental scan on donor funding for HIV/AIDS and implications for capacity building. The scan found that HIV/AIDS-specific funding is projected to remain flat or decline as donors prioritize countries with the highest disease burden. Donors are also shifting towards integrated health programs in areas like sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health, malaria, tuberculosis, and health systems strengthening. Capacity building is increasingly being integrated into major funding initiatives and donors are focusing on empowering local organizations and supporting knowledge sharing through technology.
Monitoring the impact of urban form changes on health and inequality: the INT...INTERACT
This document outlines the INTERACT methodology for monitoring the impact of urban form changes on health and inequality. INTERACT studies four urban form interventions across four Canadian cities using cohorts of 250-2500 participants. Data is collected at three time points using concept mapping, spatial surveys, mobile sensing, health surveys, and qualitative interviews. The goal is to understand how interventions influence physical activity, wellbeing, and social inequalities to inform future decision-making and advance healthier city design.
This document discusses the development and use of an area deprivation index (ADI) to measure socioeconomic status for patients based on their census block group. The ADI was developed by Singh in 2003 using 17 census measures of education, employment, income, and living conditions. For Utah, it assigns each census block group an ADI score using Singh's coefficients calculated from 2000 census data. Higher ADI scores indicate more deprivation. The Utah ADI has been used by Intermountain Healthcare to assess community health needs, identify high-risk patients, and study the impact of deprivation on conditions like hypertension. However, it has limitations since it uses area-level data as a proxy for individual characteristics.
This document summarizes a health information portal called StarHealth. It provides collated central health data from various programs and presents it in an engaging way for the public. The portal is hosted on The Star Newspaper website, which receives over 500,000 readers monthly. It addresses the problem of numerous health programs lacking centralized data distribution. The creator used data journalism and visualizations to convince data generators of the portal's value. Initial goals of the portal were 50% traffic of the newspaper's site and continued use and updating by readers and the data desk.
This presentation on key strategies for addressing HIV among people from CALD communities and people who travel to high prevalence countries was given by Corie Gray from Curtin University and CoPAHM at AFAO'S HIV and Mobility Forum on 30 May 2016.
The document proposes an app called "Health Is Local" that would capture citizen behavior and health metrics to help reduce chronic diseases. It would provide data to citizens and policymakers to identify root causes and drive better decisions. The app would educate citizens on health consequences, track their behavior, and allow them to choose actions. It aims to create incentives for citizens and close the loop between citizen actions and policy decisions.
Bringing evidence to bear on negotiating ecosystem service and livelihood tra...africa-rising
Presented by Leigh Winowiecki, Hadia Seid, Mieke Bourne, Constance Neely, Kiros Hadgu, Niguse Hagazi and Fergus Sinclair (ICRAF) at the SAIRLA Second National Learning Alliance Workshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 23 November 2017
The purpose of the Aging & Mobility Roundtable is to stay abreast of evolving policy issues, research, and innovative partnerships.
About this Event
Participants in the Aging & Mobility Roundtable typically represent state/federal governmental agencies, mobility service providers, advocacy organizations and academia.
Valerie Lefler, Executive Director, Feonix Mobility Rising &
Abray Stillson, Program Advisor, AARP Driver Safety
Building Capacity for Geospatial Analysis and Data Demand and Use to Improve ...MEASURE Evaluation
This document summarizes efforts to use geospatial analysis and data to improve resource allocation for HIV programs in Iringa Region, Tanzania. Key informant interviews and PLACE surveys were used to map HIV transmission hotspots and locate prevention services. This information was analyzed using GIS to estimate populations served and coverage of prevention programs. Maps showing service catchment areas, hotspots and gaps were produced and helped districts identify areas needing additional services. District staff were trained on using these maps and data for decision making and advocacy to better allocate resources. This integrated approach provided strong evidence to inform policies and plan responses tailored to district needs.
How Transportation Technologies are Meeting Mobility and Economic Development...RPO America
On April 10, 2019, the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation held a virtual peer exchange on the topic How Transportation Technologies are Meeting Mobility and Economic Development Needs in Rural America, with many presenters from public, private, and nonprofit sector backgrounds.
The role of civil society in data collectionSightsavers
Civil society plays an important role in supporting data collection efforts for monitoring development goals. It has a history of collecting information to inform policy and assess service delivery. Recent examples include a large mapping project that examined over 2 million people to plan trachoma interventions and a disability pilot project that found collecting such data creates demand for more inclusive services. Going forward, civil society can advocate for the 2030 agenda, support citizen accountability, and share lessons learned. It also plays a role in practice and innovation by identifying stakeholders, looking beyond numbers to include marginalized groups, and empowering such groups to own the data. Key is partnering with national authorities to promote sustainability.
State of the Social Service Workforce 2015 Report LRNicole Brown
This report provides an overview of the social service workforce in 15 low- and middle-income countries. It defines the social service workforce broadly as paid and unpaid workers from both government and non-government organizations who work to promote vulnerable populations' rights, care, support, and protection. The report is structured around planning, developing, and supporting the social service workforce. It analyzes available data on workforce numbers and configuration, reviews education and training programs, and examines professional associations and legislation. Strengthening the social service workforce is one part of building an effective social service system to deliver high-quality services to children and families.
Promoting Methods for Using HIV/AIDS and Health Information for Decision MakingMEASURE Evaluation
This document summarizes a project in Nigeria that aimed to promote better use of health information and data for decision-making. The project provided training and coaching to strengthen knowledge and capacity around monitoring and evaluation systems. It also helped address challenges like limited resources and uncoordinated data collection between partners. As a result, several government health agencies established new monitoring and evaluation units, and data use led to increased funding and improved services at local levels. Moving forward, the project seeks to further develop joint capacity building and promote sustainable national and state ownership of health information systems.
Oluchi Bassey: State Led Approaches for FP Demand Generation_Lessons Learnt f...GetItTogetherNG
This abstract was presented by The Challenge Initiative (TCI) at the 6th Nigeria Family Planning Conference which happened in Abuja from December 7 - 11, 2020.
The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) is a system used by IOM to track and monitor displacement and population mobility. It regularly collects data on internally displaced persons, returnees, and migrants across over 90 countries. The DTM has three main components: mobility tracking, flow monitoring, and registrations. It provides data on displacement situations, movement trends, numbers of displaced individuals, and their needs to help decision-makers and humanitarian organizations. The DTM has active operations in 22 African countries tracking over 10 million IDPs and 6 million returnees on the continent.
Exploring small charity data in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the data sets, free and low cost digital tools and specialist support organisations that can help.
Superhighways and Kingston Voluntary Action brought together charity professionals and data experts for a day of data discovery.
Tanzania Experience on Adaptation of CSI Tool: Case of Africare COPEMEASURE Evaluation
The document summarizes Tanzania's experience in adapting the CSI (Child Status Index) tool for monitoring vulnerable children. Key points:
- The Africare COPE project in Tanzania trained 139 volunteers to use the CSI tool to monitor 12,000 households and identify children's needs.
- Using the tool helped gather clear data on service delivery and children's needs. Lessons included that CSI is low-cost, user-friendly, and builds trust with communities.
- Challenges included integrating CSI data into the national monitoring system and having enough personnel to reach all households. The project aims to train more volunteers and integrate CSI into district management.
New frontiers: Linking family planning users to health facilities MEASURE Evaluation
1) The document discusses an initiative to improve urban reproductive health in developing countries by integrating family planning services with other health services and increasing access through public-private partnerships.
2) An evaluation is being conducted in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal to measure the impact and document best practices, using surveys of women, men, households, and health facilities.
3) A key part of the evaluation is linking family planning users to the health facilities they use in order to analyze how facility quality, services offered, and distance relate to contraceptive use and choice of method.
Transparent Chennai (TC) aggregates, creates and disseminates data, maps and research about important civic issues in
Chennai. Its aim is to empower citizens and government officials to use this information to improve city planning and
service provision for the benefit of the city’s residents, especially the urban poor. TC’s use of mapping technology to
advocate for change is unique in Chennai and rare in India.
Using Maps in Decision Making to Strengthen Programs for Orphans and Vulnerab...MEASURE Evaluation
Jen Curran presented for this September 2012 Child Status Network webinar discussing the mapping of orphans and vulnerable children program data for decision making.
This document introduces the Child Status Index (CSI), a tool developed to monitor outcomes for orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) receiving support programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The CSI was created through participatory research with local communities to assess child well-being across 12 domains, including food, shelter, health, education and psychosocial support. It provides a standardized way for programs to evaluate how services are impacting children and to match children's needs with available support. The CSI is being implemented by various NGOs and national monitoring systems to improve outcomes for OVC.
Data in international development: looking at the dark side of ICT4D. Adapted from a presentation held at re:publica 2014, together with Becky Kazansky, for an event in Berlin in mid-February 2015.
This document summarizes quarterly reports from various organizations that received mini-grants from the National Chlamydia Coalition. It provides brief overviews of 10 different projects, including the populations served, partners involved, key activities to date, and plans for the next quarter. The projects aim to increase chlamydia screening and treatment through various community outreach, provider education, and testing strategies.
This document outlines the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority's (NJTPA) public participation plan. It describes NJTPA's role as the metropolitan planning organization for 13 northern New Jersey counties and its goal to involve the public in transportation planning decisions. The summary includes:
- Ways the public can get involved, including signing up for email updates, attending meetings, and providing comments.
- NJTPA's target audiences of stakeholders, elected officials, and the general public.
- Outreach strategies NJTPA uses, such as meetings, social media, publications, and surveys, to disseminate information and gather public input.
- Considerations for engaging traditionally underrepresented groups.
Similar to Empowering Local Decision Makers in Iringa,Tanzania: PLACE Lite and the Iringa Participatory Mapping Exercise (20)
In October 2022, the COVID-19 Vaccine Collaborative Supply Planning Initiative (VCSP) held its second in-person retreat for its network of stakeholders and partners involved in COVID-19 vaccine supply planning from global, regional, and country levels. During the retreat, each country presented its COVID-19 vaccine supply planning context at a poster reception. Wish you’d been there? Check out the posters here
This document summarizes an E-learning discussion on PrEP clinical management. It discusses:
- Special clinical situations including adolescents, pregnancy/breastfeeding, hormonal contraception, elevated creatinine, hepatitis B, HIV seroconversion, and recreational drug use.
- Key counseling messages for clinicians around PrEP safety, effectiveness, and avoiding stigma. PrEP is described as safe and effective when used properly, and clinicians are advised to reduce stigma.
- Two expert panelists - Dr. Jason Reed and Dr. More Mungati - who have extensive experience in HIV prevention, programming, and research. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Seema Ntjabane.
Expert panelists:
Dr. Tafadzwa Chakare, Technical Director, Jhpiego, Lesotho
Dr. More Mungati, STAR-L Director, EGPAF Lesotho
Facilitator:
Dr. Seema Ntjabane, Care & Treatment Specialist, USAID-Lesotho
Panelists:
Dr. Abiye Kalaiwo is a Public Health Specialist and USAID's Nigeria's technical lead for Key Populations, managing PEPFAR's
single largest Key Populations program. He has over 12 years of experience in HIV and infectious disease programs at the national level.
Dr. Jason Reed offers more than 12 years of experience in public health surveillance and medical epidemiology, specifically in HIV surveillance systems, prevention programming, and implementation research at state, national and international levels.
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
State the indications for PrEP
State the eligibility for PrEP
Name the 5 main eligibility criteria for PrEP
Explain how to exclude Acute HIV Infection
Expert Panelists:
Dr. Abiye Kalaiwo, Program Manager, USAID/Nigeria
Dr. Jason Reed, Biomedical HIV Prevention Technical Advisor, Jhpiego
Moderator:
Olawale Durosinmi-Etti, JSI Nigeria
Speakers discuss PrEP counseling, special situations, and other topics covered in training modules three and four. During this webinar, expert speakers review key highlights from modules three and four, and respond to questions from participants.
Part one: https://www.slideshare.net/jsi/prep-elearning-discussion-i
Speakers discuss PrEP eligibility, management, and other topics covered in training modules one and two. During this webinar, expert speakers will review key highlights from the first two modules, share Nigeria specific guidance, and respond to questions from participants.
Part 2: https://www.slideshare.net/jsi/prep-elearning-discussion-2
Case identification by district increased from 22% to 88% from October to January due to start-up activities in October, capacity building of providers in November, and a drop in February and March likely due to fewer working days and the COVID-19 impact. Quality improvement interventions like maintaining linkage registers and accommodating ART initiation outside clinic hours drove increases in linkage to treatment, reaching over 140% in some weeks. The number of people currently on ART saw a steady increase over a 6-month period from 49% to 58% of the project target, accounting for over 11,000 people, resulting from increased case identification and linkage.
Presentation by Jeff Sanderson at "Post-Ebola Survivors - Research and Recovery Lessons from West Africa," a USAID Brown Bag on May 2, 2019 at USAID/Crystal City.
Together with NIH/PREVAIL, today’s session focuses on learnings from these programs in relation to survivor care and post-outbreak recovery of health services and health systems.
Facilitator: Jeff Sanderson, Team Leader, West Africa Post-Ebola Programs, JSI R&T/APC
The Presenters:
Dr. Libby Higgs, Global Health Science Advisor for the Division of Clinical Research at NIAID, NIH (confirmed)
Dr. Meba Kagone, former Chief of Party for ETP&SS, Guinea, JSI/APC (confirmed)
Dr. Rose Macauley, former Chief of Party for ETP&SS, Liberia, JSI/APC (confirmed)
Jeff Sanderson (for Dr. Kwame Oneill, former Director of the Program Implementation Unit, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone)
Background:
The Ebola Transmission Prevention & Survivor Services (ETP&SS) program included four components; country programs in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and a regional program designed to share best practices and lessons learned.
ETP&SS assisted these governments to prevent further Ebola transmission, reduce stigma and other barriers to care for survivors when accessing health services, support the strengthening of needed specialty services, and build more resilient and self-sustaining health systems.
The regional program sought to ensure the sharing of lessons learned and best practices across the three countries and the region through meetings, exchanges and conferences with partners such as NIH, WHO, and the West African Consortium.
Funded by the Global Health Bureau through the Advancing Partners & Communities Project, John Snow Research & Training Institute implemented the program from July 2016 through July/August 2018.
Implementing ETP and SS: The Liberia ExperienceJSI
Presentation by Dr. Rose Macauley at "Post-Ebola Survivors - Research and Recovery Lessons from West Africa," a USAID Brown Bag on May 2, 2019 at USAID/Crystal City.
Together with NIH/PREVAIL, today’s session focuses on learnings from these programs in relation to survivor care and post-outbreak recovery of health services and health systems.
Facilitator: Jeff Sanderson, Team Leader, West Africa Post-Ebola Programs, JSI R&T/APC
The Presenters:
Dr. Libby Higgs, Global Health Science Advisor for the Division of Clinical Research at NIAID, NIH (confirmed)
Dr. Meba Kagone, former Chief of Party for ETP&SS, Guinea, JSI/APC (confirmed)
Dr. Rose Macauley, former Chief of Party for ETP&SS, Liberia, JSI/APC (confirmed)
Jeff Sanderson (for Dr. Kwame Oneill, former Director of the Program Implementation Unit, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone)
Background:
The Ebola Transmission Prevention & Survivor Services (ETP&SS) program included four components; country programs in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and a regional program designed to share best practices and lessons learned.
ETP&SS assisted these governments to prevent further Ebola transmission, reduce stigma and other barriers to care for survivors when accessing health services, support the strengthening of needed specialty services, and build more resilient and self-sustaining health systems.
The regional program sought to ensure the sharing of lessons learned and best practices across the three countries and the region through meetings, exchanges and conferences with partners such as NIH, WHO, and the West African Consortium.
Funded by the Global Health Bureau through the Advancing Partners & Communities Project, John Snow Research & Training Institute implemented the program from July 2016 through July/August 2018.
Ebola Transmission Prevention and Survivor Services Program, GuineaJSI
Presentation by Dr. Meba Kagone at "Post-Ebola Survivors - Research and Recovery Lessons from West Africa," a USAID Brown Bag on May 2, 2019 at USAID/Crystal City.
Together with NIH/PREVAIL, today’s session focuses on learnings from these programs in relation to survivor care and post-outbreak recovery of health services and health systems.
Facilitator: Jeff Sanderson, Team Leader, West Africa Post-Ebola Programs, JSI R&T/APC
The Presenters:
Dr. Libby Higgs, Global Health Science Advisor for the Division of Clinical Research at NIAID, NIH (confirmed)
Dr. Meba Kagone, former Chief of Party for ETP&SS, Guinea, JSI/APC (confirmed)
Dr. Rose Macauley, former Chief of Party for ETP&SS, Liberia, JSI/APC (confirmed)
Jeff Sanderson (for Dr. Kwame Oneill, former Director of the Program Implementation Unit, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone)
Background:
The Ebola Transmission Prevention & Survivor Services (ETP&SS) program included four components; country programs in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and a regional program designed to share best practices and lessons learned.
ETP&SS assisted these governments to prevent further Ebola transmission, reduce stigma and other barriers to care for survivors when accessing health services, support the strengthening of needed specialty services, and build more resilient and self-sustaining health systems.
The regional program sought to ensure the sharing of lessons learned and best practices across the three countries and the region through meetings, exchanges and conferences with partners such as NIH, WHO, and the West African Consortium.
Funded by the Global Health Bureau through the Advancing Partners & Communities Project, John Snow Research & Training Institute implemented the program from July 2016 through July/August 2018.
These slides were presented by Dr. Henry Nagai during JSI’s Index Testing & Partner Notification for HIV Epidemic Control webinar on April 11th, 2019. Dr. Nagai is currently the Project Director/Chief of Party for the JSI-implemented USAID Strengthening the Care Continuum project in Ghana with a focus on HIV and key populations. Using funding from USAID and PEPFAR, the Project is improving the capacity of the Government of Ghana and civil society partners to provide quality and comprehensive HIV services for key populations and people living with HIV.
HIV Index Testing: The USAID DISCOVER-Health Project Experience in Zambia JSI
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Setting Them up for Failure: Why Parents Struggle to Adhere to Infant Safe Sl...JSI
This poster was presented by Christin D'Ovidio at the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing & Media.
Each year in Vermont, 4-6 infants die of unsafe sleep environments. The Vermont Department of Health contracted with JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), to study the major barriers Vermont parents and professionals face with regard to infant safe sleep. The research examined: what parents know, have heard, or find confusing about infant safe sleep practices; decisions around infant safe sleep practice; and response to existing infant safe sleep materials.
Some of the major themes with implications for future
communication efforts included parents’ need to be respected as good and competent caregivers, the desire for information that addresses the unique sleep challenges in their family, and
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and choices they face to get their babies to sleep while keeping
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The document summarizes a campaign called "Binge-Free 603: What's Your Reason?" that was created to prevent binge drinking among young adults in New Hampshire. Research identified that country-local young adults aged 21-25 were most at risk. The campaign used a social marketing approach on digital platforms like Facebook and Instagram with positive messages reflecting the values of this group. Evaluation found the campaign reached over 3.9 million people and increased engagement on social media and the website. The risk reduction approach and targeting the messaging to a specific peer group was deemed effective for this audience.
USAID Community Capacity for Health Program (Mahefa Miaraka)JSI
How Can Population, Health, and Environment Projects Learn from Family Planning High Impact Practices?
JSI’s Yvette Ribaira shares best practices from Madagascar in a new webinar.
On February 6th, JSI population, health, and environment (PHE) expert Dr. Yvette Ribaira shared insights from her experience in Madagascar during a webinar examining the link between PHE programs and high-impact practices (HIPs) drawn from family planning activities.
Watch the webinar here: https://bit.ly/2SKbuvG
Dr. Ribaira, a medical doctor, has spent her career in public health strengthening the Madagascar’s health system, with a specific focus on community health in the last decade. She currently leads the JSI’s USAID Community Capacity for Health Program in Madagascar, locally known as Mahefa Miaraka, which implements the Population Health and Environment (PHE) Activity, funded by Advancing Partners and Communities.
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Read more about JSI’s work on population, health, and environment, as well as family planning, in Madagascar and around the world at www.jsi.com
USAID Community Capacity for Health Program (Mahefa Miaraka): Re-engaging Pop...JSI
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Program implications:
1. Partnership for integration health, population, environment
2. Coverage in universal health by delegation of tasks to CAs
3. Increased productivity by women and men
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Unstructured data, vector databases, traditional databases, similarity search
Vectors
Where, What, How, Why Vectors? We’ll cover a Vector Database Architecture
Introducing Milvus
What drives Milvus' Emergence as the most widely adopted vector database
Hi Unstructured Data Friends!
I hope this video had all the unstructured data processing, AI and Vector Database demo you needed for now. If not, there’s a ton more linked below.
My source code is available here
https://github.com/tspannhw/
Let me know in the comments if you liked what you saw, how I can improve and what should I show next? Thanks, hope to see you soon at a Meetup in Princeton, Philadelphia, New York City or here in the Youtube Matrix.
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Unstructured Data Meetups -
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
https://lu.ma/calendar/manage/cal-VNT79trvj0jS8S7
https://www.meetup.com/pro/unstructureddata/
https://zilliz.com/community/unstructured-data-meetup
https://zilliz.com/event
Twitter/X: https://x.com/milvusio https://x.com/paasdev
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zilliz/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyspann/
GitHub: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus https://github.com/tspannhw
Invitation to join Discord: https://discord.com/invite/FjCMmaJng6
Blogs: https://milvusio.medium.com/ https://www.opensourcevectordb.cloud/ https://medium.com/@tspann
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/events/301383476/?slug=unstructured-data-meetup-new-york&eventId=301383476
https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2024062014
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Empowering Local Decision Makers in Iringa,Tanzania: PLACE Lite and the Iringa Participatory Mapping Exercise
1. Marc Cunningham, MPH
MEASURE Evaluation
John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
10 June 2015
Measurement for Accountability
for Results in Health Summit
Washington, DC USA
Empowering Local Decision
Makers in Iringa,
Tanzania:
PLACE Lite and the Iringa
Participatory Mapping Exercise
2. Better data are local data…
…that are used for local decisions
5. Priorities for Local AIDS
Control Efforts (PLACE)
Lite Iringa, Tanzania
Iringa Participatory
Mapping Exercise:
Service Catchment Areas
6. “Truck stops are usually visited by sex
workers in the evenings, when more than
70 trucks are parked before heading to
their eventual destinations.”
Qualitative
Quantitative
(Iringa Urban)
PLACE Lite
7.
8.
9. Patron characteristics (%)
Attended by migrant workers 89.5
Attended by truck drivers 81.5
Attended by road workers
70.8
Attended by plantation workers 63.1
Attended by miners 0.0
Prevention activities (%)
Condoms available at venue 21.5
Condoms available within 10 min walk 47.7
10.
11. “Several times [when] we
allocate [implementing
partners] to some area,
especially the distant
areas they say they cannot
go there because they do
not have enough fund to
operate to that area. ....
This results to some areas
being well served while
others underserved.”
Iringa Participatory Mapping Exercise
13. Facility Based Services
•Prevention of mother to child
transmission
•Voluntary Counselling and
Testing
•Care and Treatment
•Voluntary Male Medical
Circumcision
Community Based Services
•Prevention and outreach
•Home based care
•Orphans and vulnerable
children
16. • Guide the comprehensive response to HIV
in Iringa (MOHSW, USAID and Partners)
• Identify gaps in coverage (Ludewa District)
• Advocate for additional services (Mufindi
District)
How Were the Data Used?
19. “I used coverage maps to argue that we
needed to add coverage of CTC sites in
the areas where no CTC existed, funding
was allocated for four existing health
facilities to begin offering care and
treatment sites.”
“Maps provide comprehensive visual
data which is easy to access and
interpret.”
20. Two ways we can
encourage the
use of local data:
Better data are local data…
…that are used for local decisions
• Participatory data
collection efforts
• Provision of local
data to local actors
in accessible
formats—such as
maps
21. District, community and facility staff who
provided support during data collection
Collaborative effort
•PLACE team based at UNC Chapel Hill
•Futures Group Tanzania field office
•GIS team at John Snow, Inc.
Acknowledgements
22. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) under terms of Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-L-14-
00004 and implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group, ICF International,
John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, and Tulane University. The
views expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect the views of
USAID or the United States government.
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Editor's Notes
In this presentation, we are going to look at two MEASURE Evaluation activities in Iringa Region, Tanzania, which were designed help local actors understand local HIV prevention activities, as well as existing HIV/AIDS service coverage, in preparation for an expansion in comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment services.
This morning, Dr Rosling started off his presentation with the thesis better data means local data. I will (quite humbly), expand that statement a little to say “better data arelocal data that are used for local decisions”. In the following slides we will review the local data collected during the PLACE Lite study and the Iringa Participatory Mapping Exercise, and share illustrative examples on how the data have been used.
But first a little context.
Iringa and Njombe Regions are located on the southern border of Tanzania, and have among the highest HIV prevalence in the area.
Together, they have a population of 1.6 million persons. The two largest population centers are Iringa and Njombe towns here and here.
Due to the high HIV prevalence, the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation project was asked to conduct two data gathering and data use initiatives, in preparation for scale-up of biomedical and general prevention activities
In the first activity, a Priority for Local AIDS Control Efforts, or PLACE study was conducted. In this study, quantiative and qualitative data on HIV transmission dynamics, including the locations of hotspots and demographics of patrons attending those hotspots, are collected.
This information gets summarized for each district and shared with local health authorities through reports
And maps
In the second activity, MEASURE Evaluation piloted a novel, low-cost approach using easily replicable methods to identify catchment areas and estimate coverage patterns for facility-based and outreach HIV services. The approach used combination of key informant interviews, printed maps, and open source GIS software to produce computer-generated, district-level maps of catchment and coverage patterns.
The Iringa Participatory Mapping Exercise involved collecting GPS coordinates for all facilities and HQs of community groups providing HIV/AIDS services in the region, working with facility managers or community group leaders to identify catchment areas for services, digitizing those service areas, and … leveraging existing demographic data and service statistics to estimate service coverage in these catchment areas.
… leveraging existing demographic data and service statistics to estimate service coverage in these catchment areas. Services examined included facility based and community based services.
So, how did all this data get shared, and who were they shared with? The primary audiences for the data were the USAID mission in Tanzania, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and Community based HIV prevention organizations. The data were shared through reports (show report), through online maps (online maps), and through a workshop setting (workshop).
Identifying potential gaps in coverage: At the regional workshop, the Njombe regional medical officer and the Ludewa district council health management team identified a gap in care and treatment centers near the center of the district in an area with increased mining activity and high population growth.
Advocating for additional services: DHMT members in Mufindi noted that the existing care and treatment centers provided insufficient coverage and included over-burdened facilities. With this and other information, they lobbied for and obtained funding to offer care and treatment at additional facilities.
Service coverage maps were well received by district and regional health authorities. District and regional staff returned to their offices from the workshop and hung the maps in clear view, where they were used for planning supportive supervision visits and identifying gaps in service for the annual planning process. One participant said “quote 1”. Another, “quote 2”.
We’ve mentioned how Mufundi and Ludewa districts used the maps. Another district used the HIV maps to illustrate the power of geographic data to leverage funding from donors for mapping environmental and sanitation issues.
So, to wrap it all up and bring it all together:
We used highly participatory data collection methods, which kept costs to a minimum, and encouraged local actors to think about the data as it was collected.
We combined existing data-set both routine health statistics and population estimates, with digitized maps to generate local coverage estimates.
We involved decision makers at multiple levels
The maps were well received—one stakeholder said “…” Another stated: “…”
So we started with the question, “what does better data mean”
I would answer: better data are data which are used.
And I would further answer: Two ways we can encourage data use are participatory data collection efforts, and provision of information in clear, readily accessed formats—such as maps.
We started with the question, “what does better data mean”
I would answer: better data are data which are used at local levels to improve health services.
And I would further answer: Two ways we can encourage use of local data are participatory data collection efforts, and provision of information in clear, readily accessed formats—such as maps.