Data for Policy and Advocacy

This intervention provides quality information and knowledge on maternal and infant mortality based on improved data platforms that are used to inform local and national plans, budgets, and interventions. The data collection system (Kpododo Collect) enables healthcare workers to capture clients’ data and creates unique identifiers, hence allowing for easy and efficient information retrieval. This facilitates reporting on critical health indicators and feeds into the existing District Health Information Management System. The expansion of a community Electronic Medical Records (cEMR) platform will streamline data collection and provide opportunities to identify key maternal and infant health indicators that healthcare workers can use in tailoring services and messages for the most marginalized women, adolescents, and infants. The addition of the data analytics platform in this proposed scale-up will facilitate data analysis and provide relevant information for health facilities, community, and policy maker fora. We approach health advocacy from a human rights-based approach that is based on the evidence from data analyses, research, lessons and best practices from the project implementation. We also collaborate with the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service (GHS), allied agencies who deliver maternal and infant health (MIH) services, and other stakeholders to adopt the best practices for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, we develop policy briefs to engage government policy makers and promote the use of evidence-based practices to improve MIH outcomes.

cEMR workflow, click on image to zoom in.