Strategic Information and Introduction to the Country Response Information System

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Strategic Information and Introduction to the
Country Response Information System

• By Geoff Manthey,
• Chief
• CRIS Unit, UNAIDS.

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Strategic Information used for National
Strategic Plans

• Situational assessment
• Policy index
• Resources
• Prevention
• Care
• Treatment
• Knowledge and behaviour
• Impact

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Questions for national responses

• How can we ensure that lessons learned are not
  lessons lost?
• How do we begin to have greater access, synergy
  and cohesion vis-à-vis strategic information?
• How to coordinate a variety of information
  sources?
• How do our information systems work together?

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What is Strategic Information?

• lessons learned in countries of Southern
  America, globally
• Knowledge of what works among and between
  partners
• Indicators input, impact, outcome, etc
• Inventories partners, research, activities
• Resource tracking
• Policies and legislation

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What strategic information is needed?

• Does it have relevance to NSP and the national
  response
• Can the data be collected according to agreed
  guidelines?
• Are there resources available to collect the data
• Will the data used? Will it be made available to
  all partners?
• Collect what will be used for your program
  management.

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Information for a strengthened AIDS program
Improved data collection and strategic
information
Sustained expanded national response
Improved analysis and synthesis of information
Strengthened policy and planning
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National Strategic Plan (including National ME
Plan)
Programmatic data with core and local Indicators
National Reporting to UNGASS or partners
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CRIS the system

• Questions to answer!
• How will it work in your country?
• Where will it be, where will it live?
• Who will use it?
• What indicators and other information will be
  contained within the system?

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Issues we considered when developing CRIS

• How to improve flow of national and sub-national
  data for national AIDS responses?
• How to prepare NAC information systems (if they
  exist) for the Internet?
• What analytical tools are required by NACs /
  NAPs?
• How do we leverage existing applications and
  their analytical tools for NACs / NAPs?

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CRIS

• An information system for National AIDS Councils
  allows systematic (1) collection, (2) storage,
  (3) analysis, (4) retrieval and (5) dissemination
  of information on a countrys response to HIV/AIDS

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What does CRIS look like?

• Indicator database (Version 1.4 available)
• Project / resource tracking database (end 2003)
• Research Inventory database (end 2003)

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Who can use CRIS?

1. National entities including National AIDS
   Councils National AIDS Programs
2. NGOs and civil society
3. GFATM (Global Fund)
4. Regional entities
5. Donor/bilateral agencies (CDC GAP)
6. The UN system (World Bank MAP)

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Immediate benefits of CRIS

• Rapid establishment of an information system at
  country level
• Strengthening of existing systems
• Enhanced ability to monitor National Strategic
  Plan and the national response
• Improved ability to report to funding sources
  e.g. GFATM, WB and UN

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Other benefits..

• Supports global indicator standardization
  process, transmission format and prioritisation
• Supports next generation indicator development
  process
• Manages large volumes of information
• Streamlines information flows and greater local
  access

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Where will the principle CRIS live?

• Negotiated with each country
• National AIDS Commission / Council recommended
• Consider technical and human resource capacity
  available and/or planned
• Can have a temporary home
• Can be installed as peer systems in line
  Ministries, sub-national and/or NGOs

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Introduction to the GRID

• Global Response Information Database available
  via the UNAIDS website

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links via the GRID..

• AIDS Programme Indicator Survey
• AIDS Programme Effort Index
• HealthMapper / Global Atlas (WHO)
• EpiFact Sheets
• DHS
• Key documents
• Contacts

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Indicator Database

• 1st available component of CRIS
• Core indicators (UNGASS) that are consistent
  across all CRIS
• Ability to add indicators specific to national
  AIDS responses
• Ability to add regionally specific indicators

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Indicator Database V1.4b

• Multilingual capability (EN,FR,RU,SP)
• It could easily be translated into Asian
  languages including Indonesian
• PivotTable and charting capability
• Indicator management, e.g. status
• Data import/export of data and definitions
• Comments field to support report making

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Features of CRIS IND?

• Allows countries to load all global data
• Ability to share indicator definitions
• Demonstrated that minimal training required
• Immediate use rapid installation via CD-Rom
• Leverages the functionality of other information
  systems through data exchange

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More features

• Application is browser based
• Configured as stand alone, but in future network
  and web-enabled
• HTML technology allows for ease of addition of
  screens to the system
• SQL Server 2000 Desktop allows for migration to
  SQL Server

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Project / resource tracking database

• Available end 2003
• Allows data collection in a hierarchical fashion
• Project Intervention Activity
• Project level data (summary information)
  exportable

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PRT

• Data to include
• Sub-national functional level i.e. province or
  district
• Executing/implementing organization
• Resource provider (donor)
• Planned or actual start and/or end dates for
  projects
• Target populations' sex, age group, occupation
  and/or ethnicity
• A variety of activity descriptions or keywords
  that more fully describe projects
• How a project fulfills the goals in the National
  Strategic Plan.

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Project/resource tracking database
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Research Inventory Database

• To be released by end of 2003
• Existing systems evaluated
• Database design in progress
• Compatibility with PRT database
• Harmonization with existing systems, e.g. NIH,
  USAID
• Data from funding agencies from the country
  level
• Information available on GRID
• Analysis on gaps and opportunities (research and
  partners)

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Research Inventory Database
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RID

• Pilot in a number of priority countries
• National Research Institution to partner with
  National AIDS Council / Commission
• Match global research award data with national
  research data

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Current issues

• CRIS complements leverages other information
  systems how to communicate this message well
• CRIS can be used to leverage the establishment /
  improvement of a basic ME system how do we do
  this?
• Need for model countries where CRIS / ME is
  functioning which countries and in what time
  frame?
• Developing capacity among (cosponsors) country
  based staff for ME and CRIS joint action
  required

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CRIS endorsed by

• UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
• UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations
• Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG)
  and its members
• USAID
• CDC
• DfID
• Governments of Japan, Norway Portugal.

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Things to remember before installing CRIS

• Does your Hardware meet the documented
  requirements
• You will need to have administrator rights to
  computer for installation
• Your computer Operating System must be Windows
  2000 not an earlier model

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• A User Guide has been developed to guide you
  through the installation process as well as other
  functionality.