Nutrition Information Systems: meeting the needs of program decision makers

This session will provide a global overview of the decisions and data needs of program-level decision makers (e.g. status, intervention coverage, supply chain, human resources, implementing partners) and to showcase examples of country-level efforts to collect and use data across platforms for planning and management

Presentations:

• Introduction: Nutrition Information Systems: meeting the needs of program decision makers
  Sara Wuehler, PhD – Nutrition International
• Building and piloting a survey toolkit to assure quality nutrition data with appropriate gender indicators
  Sara Wuehler, PhD – Nutrition International
• Performance management & program monitoring - Developing a program monitoring system that supports use of the results for program review and re-planning (Suaahara in Nepal: Monitoring an at-scale, multi-sectoral nutrition program)
  Shraddha Manandhar, Master of International Public Health – Helen Keller International, Nepal
• Can local staff reliably assess their own programs? A confirmatory test-retest study of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling data collectors in Uganda
  Robert Onzima Anguyo, MSc – Liverpool School of Tropical Medecine
• The Use of Real-time Monitoring and Reporting for the National Vitamin A-Plus Campaign in Bangladesh
  S M Mustafizur Rahman – Institute of Public Health Nutrition (IPHN)
• Q&A: Nutrition Information Systems: meeting the needs of program decision makers
  Sara Wuehler, PhD – Nutrition International