THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY

• Joy Phumaphi
• Assistant Director General
• Family and Community Health
• World Health Organization

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Market Failures in development related
Information technology

• Those with the most severe MDG problems are
  often those with weakest technology and
  information systems

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Fragile and Overloaded IS
Every programme, project, partner has a separate
ME plan
Every ME plan focuses on indicators but not on
the system for generating them
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Data Collected But Not Used
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Imagine what could be achieved

• 1. LINKING THE MARKET PLACE TO
• SERVICE PROVIDERS
• CLIENTS
• SHARED POTALS
• HARMONIZATION
• MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• 2. CREATING KNOWLEDGE HUBS
• 3. INCREASING CHOICES
• 4. DATA COLLECTION
• 5. MODELLING
• 6. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

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The Vicious Cycle
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Lack of Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Politicians
Budgets
Peer pressure
Devpt.
Donors workers
Process of decision-making
developmentInformation
Decisions
Media
Community
NGOs
Special interests
Inertia
Adapted from Lippeveld et al WHO 2000
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Is 10 years enough

• Incremental Approach
• Setting milestones
• Investing in Advocacy
• Inter-partner co-ordination
• Multi-sectoral co-ordination
• Monitoring and sharing

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A New Perspective

• Its not because countriesare poor that they
  cannot afford to use information
  technologyIts because they are poor that they
  cannot afford to be without it.

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Making it work

• Text messaging on cell phones
• Telemedicine
• Training and development
• Trade and Assisted Technology Services
• Emergency Response co-ordination
• Client records and monitoring
• Disease surveillance
• On-line chronic disease specific tools
• (e.g. diabetes, and HIV and AIDS)

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HMN Goal and Objectives

• Goal To increase the availability and use of
  timely and reliable health information in
  countries and globally through shared agreement
  on goals and coordinated investments in core
  health information systems
• Objectives
• Develop framework and standards for health
  information systems
• Support countries in applying the HMN framework
• Develop incentives for enhanced dissemination and
  use of sound health information

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Creating a Virtuous Cycle
Countries, Donors, Global / Regional groupings,
MDGs stimulate results-based decision-making.
sector reform. SWAPs. PRSP, Civil society,
media, use of IT
Global
initiatives
Increased
Demand
Donors
agree
Multiple stakeholder Involvement sector and
statistics constituencies support to IT and
products.
to align
and focus on building systems able to respond
to country and donor needs.
efforts
Increased
Coordination
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POSITIVE RESULTS

• TOWARDS UNIVERSAL COVERAGE OF ESSENTIAL HEALTH
  SERVICES
• Responding faster to emergencies
• Offering better quality care with full patient
  records
• Saving on over-prescription and drug procurement
• Using clinical indicators to ensure consistent
  quality
• Timely error reporting
• Rapid scaling-up of effective interventions
• Continuous upgrading of health workers
• A network to harness, apply, and improve