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Identifying Bottlenecks and Root-Causes to Develop Investment Cases through EQUIST with Ministry of Health Officials in Malawi

27/6/2019

Sumer Drall, Intern, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation
Shahrouh Sharif, Advisor-Data Analytics and Health Systems Strengthening, Community Systems Foundation

From 16-17 May, 2019, the Ministry of Health Department of Planning and Policy Development (MoH DPPD), with support from UNICEF HQ, organized a Bottleneck Analysis and Root-cause Analysis Workshop in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Maternal and infant care in Malawi. By LindsayMgbor/DFID - UK Department for International Development - Make mums matter, CC BY 2.0,

Using Data Outside of the Training Room: Reflecting on and Learning from Malikunnafoni

4/6/2019

Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

From 27-31 May 2019, senior statisticians from L'Institut national de la statistique (INSTAT), and statistical experts responsible for the national development plan participated in a week-long workshop in New Delhi, India.

The Knowledge Exchange Platform: Strengthening National Assessments to Improve Teaching and Learning in South Asia

29/5/2019

Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

An estimated 617 million of children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, according to the 2019 SDG Progress Report of the Secretary General. Of these students, “about two-thirds are attending school but are not learning in the classroom or drop out of school.”

A Solution to Monitor and Report on Progress against the Arab Regional Multidimensional Poverty Strategy

25/4/2019

Menna El Shiati, Advisor - Gender and FGM, Community Systems Foundation

Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is partnering with the League of Arab States (LAS) to monitor regional and national progress against the Arab Regional Multidimensional Poverty Strategy.

DevInfo in Action - Observatory for Children's Rights

5/4/2019

Seth Davis, Communications Officer/Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

From 21 to 23 February 2019, the Second International Biennial Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education took place in Victoria, Seychelles. [1] Among the speakers at the conference was Elma Tershana, Director of the Observatory for Children and Youth Rights (www.observator.org.al), Albania, presenting on Promising practices in data management for resilient ECCE system. Presentation of good practices. Since 2009, The Observatory has been using DevInfo to monitoring and disseminate data related to children in Albania.

Modeling Lives Saved with EQUIST for Sub-National Investment Planning in Ghana

28/2/2019

Shahrouh Sharif, Advisor-Data Analytics and Health Systems Strengthening, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Communications Officers/Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

Throughout the last two decades, Ghana has implemented several national measures aimed at improving overall child survival and health equity in the country. [1] While these policies amplify the necessity of health equity, Ministry of Health focal points have had limited capacity to analyse health sector data prior to the introduction of the EQUitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST) in Ghana.

OpenEMIS Guyana: Monitoring Education Sector Plans with OpenEMIS Monitoring

10/1/2019

Seth Davis, Programme and Communications Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

As the 2014-2018 National Education Sector Plan (ESP) comes to a close in Guyana, a comprehensive sector review is being conducted within the Ministry of Education (MoE) to draft the 2019-2023 plan and to address education sector challenges and needs. Several of these challenges include several staff members lacking the capacity to effectively collect data and monitoring progress of their ESP and a lack of technological equipment.

UN INFO: A Data For All Adaptation Driving Global UN Reform

10/1/2019

Jon F. Kapp, Executive Director, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Communications and Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

Community Systems Foundation has been a central contributor to a vision for UN reform laid out by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in A/72/684, “Repositioning the United Nations development system to deliver on the 2030 Agenda: our promise for dignity, prosperity and peace on a healthy planet.”

Understanding Data, Contributing to Development and Making a Difference: My CSF Experience

21/12/2018

Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation

Having the dream of working in human development since participating in Model United Nations as a first-year student in university, it seems almost unreal that six months after graduating I have already contributed to projects led by UNESCO, UN Free & Equal (UNFE) and the World Health Organization (WHO), among others.

Monitoring the Arab Region Multidimensional Poverty Alleviation Strategy

20/12/2018

Menna El Shiati, Advisor - Gender and FGM, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation

In 2017, The League of Arab States (LAS), United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UN ESCWA), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) launched the Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report in a United Nations General Assembly High-Level Side Event.

BEMIS Advanced Lab Trainings: Paving the Way for National Roll-Out of OpenEMIS

12/12/2018

Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation

Traveling over 10,000 miles, Officials from the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture (MoEYSC) Belize traveled to Singapore to attend an OpenEMIS Advanced Lab Trainings in mid-November. As the culmination of a successful three year project, four key counterparts from the MoEYSC successfully completed the trainings to build individual and institutional capacity in preparation for national roll-out of BEMIS, the national adaptation of OpenEMIS.

Visualizing Real-Time Data to Map Progress of the Belizean National Children’s Agenda

3/12/2018

Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation

A DevInfo to Data For All Transition
To strengthen the national monitoring and evaluation capacity in Belize at the project, sector and thematic levels, as well as against national strategic plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation launched BelizeInfo, an adaptation of DevInfo, in 2016. [1]

EQUIST: A Data Impact Tool Driving National Change in the Ghanaian Health Sector

26/11/2018

Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation

To assist countries in the achievement of national priorities related to poverty eradication, under five child mortality rate and impact of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, the EQUitable Impact Sensitive Tool provides analysis of inequitable distribution of development results along with a scenario analysis function to access the impact of the removal of bottlenecks in the delivery of interventions. This helps national health programmes to prioritize interventions and geographical areas. [1]

Sudan Info: A Model of Transition from DevInfo to Data For All for a Sustainable National SDG Reporting Platform

26/11/2018

Jeeveeta Agnihotri, Chief Programme Officer, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation

From DevInfo to Data For All
In A Data Revolution in Motion, the UN Statistics Division highlights the importance of data tools “to gather, present and disseminate Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) data.” [1] In order to better track progress on national priorities and the SDGs and to create meaningful interventions, however, policy-makers must use these tools efficiently, effectively and extensively.

OpenEMIS Maldives MEMIS Video Spotlight

2/11/2018

Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Communications Officer

Considering the Maldives are an archipelago of 1,192 coral islands with around 200 islands containing schools, historically it has been difficult for the country to create a central education system that caters to the needs of all learners. To unify the education system, and to collect, store and obtain significant information for decision-making and management, the Maldives began utilizing OpenEMIS.

Since launching the Maldives Education Management Information System (MEMIS), an adaptation of the open-source toolkit, data handling has become easier for education officials in the Maldives. While teachers and administrators have collected data on paper for many years, MEMIS has enabled education professionals to more efficiently manage and access data on students, staff and schools. MEMIS has assisted teachers through the mobile-friendly attendance record keeping feature. And, for the first time ever, school officials are using MEMIS technology to generate over 40,000 student report cards.

With easier access to reliable education data through the MEMIS Dashboard, policy decisions can now be informed to ensure education access, equity and quality and to improve internal coordination and efficiency.