Country: Uganda
Closing date: 23 May 2018
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Under the supervision of the Nutrition Specialist, the consultant will Support the Nutrition unit of MoH in the systematic review, analysis, reporting and use of nutrition data from HMIS to inform district and national level nutrition program planning and decision making.
Background
Improved institutional capacity is needed to increase the use of evidence in nutrition programing in Uganda. The Health Management Information System (HMIS), led by the Ministry of Health, is the major functional nutrition information management system in Uganda. The overall goal of HMIS is to provide quality information to support decision-making at all levels of the health care system in Uganda.
The HMIS primarily records information on patients who visit health centres. The first HMIS in Uganda was developed in 1985. However, this soon became obsolete because it only targeted few health conditions. In 2007, the Ministry of Health (MoH) Resource Centre developed a more versatile, web-enabled platform. By 2009, however, only, a limited number of districts had adopted the web-enabled software as a number of challenges, including but not limited to limited skills in data management, still existed. In 2012, the MoH introduced an electronic HMIS-the District Health Management Information Software version 2 (DHIS2), that is web based, to further strengthen district-based health reporting. The web based DHIS2 supports various health related program data management and analysis, program monitoring and evaluation, service availability mapping, logistics management and mobile tracking of clients in communities.
In 2014, for the first time, Uganda had nutrition data elements added to HMIS. Currently, there are 57 data elements for nutrition that are captured through the health facility registers. These are consolidated into the monthly and quarterly HMIS reports (HMIS 105, 108, 009 & 106a). The advances in nutrition, however, have come with additional needs for nutrition data to further inform programing. This is in addition to the need to update some obsolete indicators.
Since 2016, UNICEF provided technical and financial assistance to the MoH for the routine analysis of nutrition data, and to support its triangulation with other national level data sources, in order to provide a general picture of the nutrition status of the population. An M&E officer for Nutrition was seconded to the Division of Health Information of the MoH to support a range of activities to this effect during a period of 11 months. A major achievement of this technical assistance to MoH was the improvement in reporting rates for nutrition indicators from 22 to 45%. In addition, an exercise to improve the quality of nutrition data elements in the HMIS/DHIS2 has been carried out in the frame of the HMIS revision process that is currently taking place. For this purpose, a major review of all current indicators was done, and a number of modifications have been suggested, and will be shared for approval on the 17th of April 2018.
However, nutrition data collection, quality and use still need further improvement. There is a need for more robust nutrition data quality checks in order to monitor the level of nutrition reporting. In addition, data related to refugee response needs to be integrated within HMIS, ensuring all indicators are properly disaggregated for both refugees and host communities.
Key Tasks:
To qualify asan advocate for every child you will have…
1. EDUCATION:
2. EXPERIENCE:
Experience in collecting and analyzing programme data and prepare programme status reports as required.
Knowledge in the Systems Development Life Cycle
3. SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
For every Child, you demonstrate…
Our core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
The technical competencies required for this post are….
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Remarks:
Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
How to apply:
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