Drop Knowledge, Not Bombs

Here are those TB-HIV slides I mentioned once upon a time:
























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ps. Monitoring and Evaluation is Awesome.

Moving from ‘Stats’ to M&E: Changing the way we think about numbers

1) Sharing our experiences with current data collection and reporting pathways

2) Make collection of daily/weekly/monthly numbers immediately relevant and practical for all clinic staff

• It is important that we receive relevant feedback on our work; it provides motivation, incentive, and recognition
• Statistics enable us to gauge where we are doing well and where we still have work to be done
• M&E as an essential part of comprehensive HIV care
• Assessing patients’ needs
• Measuring workloads
• Upreferral and downreferral pathways
• This is an area of our program that we are going to need everyone’s’ help to successfully accomplish.

3) Monitoring and Evaluation sounds pretty scary. What does it actually entail at your clinic?

Just five easy steps…
• Ongoing collection of specific, pre-determined indicators
• Compilation of numbers at the end of specified time periods
• Reporting of these figures on deadline to designated M&E staff
• Scheduling regular times to receive feedback of analysis of collected statistics
• Using Improvement Methodologies (which we will teach you!) to make small changes to current systems; addressing gaps in care and enabling proper allocation of resources

4) Our respective responsibilities

Partner Clinics
• Collect accurate statistics
• Meet reporting targets and deadlines
• Be open to systems development and change

Zoe-Life
• Provide M&E and Systems Development training/support for all staff
• Develop and implement streamlined data reporting structures
• Bring data supporters into clinics to help with collection of stats
• Provide regular feedback on progress

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I'm pretty sure that no one read to here (except for my mom: hi Mom), but thanks for trying.