Implementing EQUIST in Bangladesh with National, Divisional and International Collaboration29/11/2019 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. 
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Improving Monitoring and Evaluation in the Jordanian Education Sector with OpenEMIS Monitoring13/11/2019 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.  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
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.  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
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
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.  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,
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.  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.”  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.”  |