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CSF Software Powers Communication for over 100 UN Country Teams

22/2/2021

Jon F. Kapp, Executive Director, Community Systems Foundation

Community Systems Foundation congratulates the United Nations Development Coordination Office and UN Country Teams around the world for publishing data linked to UN INFO on over 100 websites!

CSF is proud to support the design, development and deployment of UN INFO as a means to track and report UN contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the world.

For more information, please read the following UN article: https://unsdg.un.org/latest/stories/100-websites-look-how-country-teams-are-communicating-about-uns-work

Caption: Tuba Coskun from UN Turkey shares her excitement for the UN country team websites with colleagues across the globe. Photo: UN Turkey/Tuba Coskun

Partnering in the Global Education Coalition to Protect the Right to Education During COVID-19 and Beyond

5/2/2021

Jon F. Kapp, Executive Director, Community Systems Foundation

Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is a proud member of the Global Education Coalition! Led by UNESCO, the Global Education Coalition is a network of 132 partners aiming to, “work with governments to find solutions to leave no one behind and elevate the importance of equity and gender equality in educational responses to the COVID-19 crisis."

UN INFO Reaches Global Roll-out

2/9/2020

Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

The monitoring, planning and reporting tool being used by the United Nations to support the monitoring and tracking of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has now been rolled-out to all UN Country Teams (UNCTs). With the final two teams from Mauritius and São Tomé and Príncipe coming on-board the platform, all 136 UNCTs are now officially tracking UN Sustainable Development Frameworks with UN INFO.

Streamlining UN Women’s Coordination and Response Planning through the BCCMA Mobile Application

11/8/2020

Rudolph Pereira, Team Lead, Avalon Information Systems for Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) operates in over one-hundred and thirty (130) locations globally. While these locations differ in terms of size and scope of their programming, each location is required to have a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Plan to streamline integrated decision-making and coordination of operations, according to UN system-wide policy CEB/2014/HLCM/17.

Female Genital Mutilation in News

30/3/2020

Implementing EQUIST in Bangladesh with National, Divisional and International Collaboration

29/11/2019

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

From 21-30 October 2019, Community Systems Foundation met with UNICEF Bangladesh and national, regional and international stakeholders in Dhaka, Bangladesh to initiate work towards strengthened use of data to save young lives.

Improving Monitoring and Evaluation in the Jordanian Education Sector with OpenEMIS Monitoring

13/11/2019

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

Jordan’s Ministry of Education (MoE) is currently implementing a series of reforms to enhance its capacity to monitor the education sector and ensure that the goals outlined in the Education Strategic Plan (ESP) are met.

Visualizing Drought Risk in East Africa through the IGAD 3W Map

26/8/2019

Sumer Drall, Intern, Community Systems Foundation

In 2017, Community Systems Foundation (CSF) began work with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) East Africa to develop and deploy a solution to easily display the cross-sectoral work of the organization. The 3W (who, what, and where) Map was designed to give IGAD the ability to quickly visualize the risk of drought across the region while tracking resilience investment. (1)

A screenshot of the 3W Map tool on the IGAD Website

Leveraging OpenEMIS Survey to Collect, Manage and Disseminate Education Data in Lesotho

20/8/2019

Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

To meet the goals of the 2016-2026 Education Sector Plan (ESP), the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) Lesotho is embarking on new initiatives to improve nationwide EMIS capabilities to drive evidence-based change in the education sector.

UN Volunteers VMC: Developing an Integrated Volunteer Management Cycle (VMC) Platform to Support Efficient Growth

13/8/2019

Sumer Drall, Intern, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

Since 2017, Community Systems Foundation (CSF) has been supporting the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) through the development and the maintenance of a Volunteer Management Cycle (VMC) platform. As a core system in organizational processes, the UMC enables UNV to meet its mandate through the consolidation of all services and the standardization of processes. (1)

As the technical partner, CSF redeveloped the platform, aiming to speed up the recruitment processes and assignment of volunteer workers globally. In doing so, the system reduces the workload of UN Volunteer personnel both at headquarters and in the field. (2)

A screenshot of the UN Volunteers - Volunteer Management Application Modules Website

Project ASMAN: Supporting Maternal and Newborn Health Programs through Data Collection

29/7/2019

Sumer Drall, Intern, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Programme Advisor, Community Systems Foundation

Since 2017, Community Systems Foundation’s (CSF)’s technical partner Avalon Information Systems has been supporting Project ASMAN - Alliance for Saving Mothers and Newborns.

ASMAN is a partnership between the Reliance Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers, Tata Trusts and USAID, and aims to facilitate the availability of quality healthcare under the five pillars of the Government of India’s Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Programme (RMNCH+A).

Avalon Informations Systems has supported the initiative through development and maintenance of the ASMAN application. The tool facilitates data collection that supports health analytics at the worker, facility and regional level.

Picture obtained from Project ASMAN Newsletter, June 2019

Strengthening National Education Data Analytics Capacity through OpenEMIS Advanced Lab Trainings with the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Library Services, Turks and Caicos Islands

22/7/2019

Sumer Drall, Intern, Community Systems Foundation
Sunmin Lee, Senior Programme Advisor/Data Analyst, Community Systems Foundation

From 8-12 July 2019, representatives from the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Library Services, Turks and Caicos Islands participated in a week-long OpenEMIS Lab training in New York City. The Advanced Lab Training focused on Data Analytics, supporting the Ministry in developing measurable objectives, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to track progress and goals.

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.”