Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Description

The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance to strengthen Health Management Information System (HMIS) capacity within all levels and units of the Government of the Republic of Tanzania’s (GoT) Ministry of Social Health and Welfare (MOHSW) in order to:• Build on lessons learned and investments in the HIV/AIDS sub-sector to support national planning and harmonization of health sector information systems to achieve the goal of one data collection and dissemination system that meets the needs of all government, cooperating partner, non-governmental, and civil society institutions operating in the Tanzanian health sector.• Improve the capacity of the MOHSW to collect, manage, and analyze aggregate program monitoring and evaluation data to meet GoT, international, and cooperating partner reporting requirements. • Support the MOHSW in systems analysis, process design, vendor selection, and deployment of operational or transaction processing management systems supportive of standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the MOHSW.• Support the creation of a data warehouse, or analytical processing system, which brings together information from aggregate data collection systems, surveillance and evaluation studies, transactional systems and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data. This collection of data must be promoted/designed to enable data mining and detailed longitudinal and population-based analysis of multiple concurrent data sets to inform policy formulation, resource allocation, and decision making processes.• Support application of data analysis in dissemination papers, abstracts, and report cards. MOHSW dissemination of data should support status updates, stakeholder dialogue, and health services planning with all stakeholders at local, district, regional and national levels.• Support the use of policy analysis, projections, and modeling techniques to build evidence-based policy formulation, programmatic resource allocation, and decision making across the health sector and at all levels.

Who can apply

• Others

Contact

PGO TIMS <br/>grants <br/>Phone 770-488-2700
PGOTIMS@CDC.gov