Abstract
Developing data use capacity in the maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition sector in Malawi, Mali, Mozambique and Tanzania: an evolving strategy.
Highlights
The National Evaluation Platform (NEP) aims to improve health and nutrition outcomes in women and children by strengthening the capabilities of government institutions to use data to guide Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Nutrition (MNCH&N) policies and programs
Building skills that transfer beyond NEP; all High-level Advisory or Steering Committees (HLAC) and Technical Working Groups (TWG) members had professional roles that required working with data in some capacity
During the course of the 4-year project we carried out internal and external assessments of the NEP capacity building and refined our strategy based on findings
Summary
The NEP was ambitious – aiming to develop and capacitate teams drawing members from multiple institutions that would both carry out analyses and effectively engage policy makers with findings. Developing multi-institutional teams that could effectively work together and grow less dependent on IIP-JHU technical support across time. Fostering context-based learning by rooting all capacity building in answering country-specific questions using national data. Building skills that transfer beyond NEP; all HLAC and TWG members had professional roles that required working with data in some capacity. Adapting country-level capacity building approaches to reflect each team’s questions, priorities and existing skills. We aimed to improve participant’s core technical skills (Figure 1). We aimed for (1) the sustained presence of technical skills within Home Institutions despite turnover in individual TWG members, and (2) a higher-level shift in institutional culture around data for decision making. We expected Home Institution and some other TWG members to reach Level 2 for most skills. Level 3 is quite advanced and we expected only a few participants to reach it in specific skill areas
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