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Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Malnutrition |
Information Management Systems |
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It is intended mainly for practitioners and program managers.
It provides insights on key indicators and means of verification for preventive and curative nutrition. It also explores different ways of collecting and presenting data for different purposes.
Setting up and managing a Comprehensive Information Management System
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Sharing Good Practices
| Information Management Systems should inform the decision-making process whereby nutrition intervention priorities are based on objective criteria and sound judgments on available resources - human, material and financial.
Monitoring and Evaluation activities need to provide timely, relevant, accessible, high-quality information to improve program functioning by shifting the focus from inputs to results and creating accountability for performance.
Important resources, time and energy are often devoted to surveys and studies with little or no feed-back being given to the people who provided information in the first place. The Contact between interviewers and interviewees should be acknowledged as golden opportunity to communicate key messages on nutrition and health. |
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24 June, 2008
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