Led by Tara Nutley The Data Demand and Use Training Materials increase the skills of M&E officers and health program staff to conduct data analysis, interpretation, presentation and use for health program improvement. Download Data Demand and Use Training Materials: https://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/tools/data-demand-use/data-demand-and-use-training-resources Webinar Recording: http://universityofnc.adobeconnect.com/p9rbiydyl2a/

1. Data Demand & Use
Training Materials
Webinar Series #7
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Presenters: Tara Nutley & Molly Cannon,

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4. Agenda
• Welcome - webinar tips
• Brief overview of Data Demand and Use
• Presentation of Training Materials
• Field Application of Materials
• Questions and Answers
• Wrap up

5. Why improve data-informed
decision making?
Pressing need to develop health
policies, strategies, and
interventions

6. “… without information, things are done
arbitrarily and one becomes unsure of
whether a policy or program will fail or
succeed. If we allow our policies to be guided
by empirical facts and data, there will be a
noticeable change in the impact of what we
do.”
National-level Policymaker, Nigeria

7. Definitions
 Data use – Using data in the decision making
process
 monitor a program
 create or revise a program or strategic plan
 develop or revise a policy
 advocate for a policy or program
 allocate resources
 Data Demand - decision makers specify what kind of
information they want & seek it out

8. Data-informed Decision Making Cycle

9. Improving Data-informed Decision
Making
Data Users & Data Producers
Tool Application Capacity Building Organizational Support
Monitoring & Evaluation System Improvements

10. Training Toolkits

11. DDU Training Toolkits
 Data Demand and Use Concepts and Tools
 Introduction to Basic Data Analysis and
Interpretation for Health Programs
 Integrating Data Demand and Use into a
Monitoring and Evaluation Training Course
 Using data to improve service delivery: A
Training Tool Kit for Pre-service Nursing
Education

12. DDU Training Toolkits
 Conducting High Impact Research
 E-Learning
 Data Demand and Use and Introduction to
Concepts and Tools: An Online Course
 Data Use for Program Managers: An
eLearning Course

13. Guiding Principles
 Bring data users & producers together
 Team approach
 Identify information needs
 Availability use
 Identify & overcome barriers to data use
 Institutionalize data demand & use
 Assess & communicate successes

14. Toolkit Components
 Background reading
 Slides
 Fully elaborated speaker notes
 Facilitator guidance
 Exercises
 Adaptations

15. Data Demand and Use Concepts
and Tools
 Objective – To build capacity in data use concepts
approaches and tools
 Audience - M&E staff, Program staff, Policy makers
 Topics – Using data to inform programs,
determinants of data use, context of decision
making, understanding data & information flow,
providing feedback, linking data to action
 Length – 3 days

16. Introduction to Basic Data
Analysis and Interpretation for
Health Programs
 Objective – To provide an introduction to basic
terminology, calculations, data presentation &
interpretation
 Audience - M&E staff, Program staff
 Topics – Terminology, basic calculations, setting
targets, calculating program coverage &
retention, data presentation & interpretation
 Length – 2 days

17. Using Data to Improve Service
Delivery: Training for pre-service
nursing education
 Objective - To develop an understanding of and
an appreciation for data use and M&E systems.
To build skills in data use
 Audience – Nurses
 Topics – Introduction to DDU concepts and tools,
role of the nurse in M&E and data use, data
quality, basic analysis, linking data to action
 Length – 2 days

18. Integrating Data Demand and Use
into a Monitoring and Evaluation
Training Course
 Objective - To provide guidance and training
materials for incorporating data demand and use
concepts, approaches and tools into an existing
M&E course
 Audience – M&E trainers
 Topics – DDU concepts & tools, basic analysis &
interpretation, adaptation suggestions &
examples

19. Conducting High Impact Research
 Objective - To provide guidance, strategies and job
aids that can be used in the research process to
facilitate the use of research results
 Audience – Researchers
 Topics – Identifying the program & policy
continuum, developing a communication plan,
involving stakeholders, formulating meaningful
research questions, developing recommendations,
data use action plans
 Length – 1 day

20. E-Learning
 Data Demand and Use and Introduction to
Concepts and Tools
 http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/training/online-
courses/certificate-courses/ddu/index.html/
?searchterm=data
 Data Use for Program Managers
 http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm
 Audience: M&E staff, Program staff, Policy
makers, providers
 Length – 2-3 hours

21. Accessing the Materials
 http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/

26. FIELD APPLICATION - NIGERIA

27. Integrating DDU into M&E
workshop/courses
 Agendas includes Data Demand and Use
sessions at several points throughout the
workshop
 Developing M&E courses that will include key
DDU components throughout curriculum
 Developing a short-term M&E Diploma course
that incorporates DDU throughout

28. ABU M&E Workshop Agenda
PROGRAMME
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
13-2-13 14-2-12 15-2-12 16-2-12 17-2-12 18-2-12
8:00 – 10:30am Registration M&E Overview of Data Quality: Gender in Progress
Opening Frameworks Indicators Principles, Health and Report on
Week ONE Ceremony basic concepts M&E M&E Plans
and
assessment
10:30-11:00am Tea break
11:00am- Overview of the M&E Group Work: Decision Data analysis Application
11:30am Workshop Frameworks Indicators Making and and of qualitative
11:30am-1:00pm +Group Work Strategic introduction to Methods to
Introduction to +Case Studies Information M&E
STATA
M&E: Concepts
and definitions
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:30pm Developing an M&E Data Evaluation Data Analysis Uses of
M&E plan Frameworks Sources and Designs and surveys and
+Group Work Tools Introduction to sampling in
+Case Studies STATA M&E
3:30-4:00pm Tea break
4:00-5:30pm Introduction to M&E Uses of Group Work: Group work: Social Night
Group Frameworks Surveillance M&E plan M&E plan (8:00-
Work+’Manimal +Group Work Data in M&E 10:00pm)
s’ +Case Studies
5:30-6:00 pm Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily
evaluation evaluation evaluation evaluation evaluation

29. ABU M&E Workshop Agenda
PROGRAMME
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
20-2-12 21-2-12 22-2-12 23-2-12 24-2-12 25-2-12
8:00 – 10:30am Leadership in M&E of TB Field Visit Ethics in M&E Group Departure
M&E Leprosy Presentations
of M&E Plan +
Week TWO
Feedback
10:30-11:00am Tea break
11:00am-1:00pm M&E of HIV and Data Demand Field Visit Communicating Group work
AIDS programs and Information and reporting presentation
Use M& E findings
Closing
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:30pm M&E of Data Demand Feedback from Group Work:
RH/PMTCT and Information Field Visit M&E Plan
programs Use
3:30-4:00pm Evening Snack
4:00-5:30pm M&E of Malaria Data Demand Group Work – Group Work:
Programs and Information M&E Plan M&E Plan
Use
5:30 – 6:00 pm Daily evaluation Daily evaluation Daily evaluation Daily evaluation

30. Pre-Service Nurse Training
 Incorporating elements from the six modules into
existing courses (e.g., public health
nursing/research methods)
 Plans to pilot test an in-service workshop with
nurses in Zaria, Nigeria

31. Overview of Modules/Activities
Module Topic Key Elements Small Group Activity
1 Data demand & use  Role of data in improving service delivery 1. Case study review
key concepts  Role of provider in M&E
 Data demand and use
 Determinants of decision making
2 Data analysis key  Data analysis terminology and key concepts None
concepts  Statistical terms
3 Basic analyses  Calculating program coverage – utilization and None
availability of services
 Calculating program retention
4 Data presentation &  Summarizing data 2. Calculating program
interpretation  Appropriate formats for summarizing data coverage and retention…
 Interpreting data Data Analysis and
Presentation Job Aids
5 Sharing data &  Barriers to data use None
information  Information flow
 Information feedback
6 Making data-informed  Using the Framework for Linking Data with Action 3. Linking decisions with
decisions data
Summary Review of key themes  Key themes from Modules 1–6 None

32. ABU Pre-Service
Module Level Course Content Contact Personnel Comments
hours
3&4 200 Biostatistics Theoretical part of 6 Community Medicine Review the course contents with
Basic Analyses Department Medicine Department.
Data Presentation
1&2 300 Community Health Data Demand 6 Nursing Department It will be included in the course
Nursing Biophysical community profiles Lecturers assigned to teach the specification
courses The community based perspectives will
be followed
1,2&3 Research Theoretical part of 6 Nursing Department Research approach
Methodology 1 research Process Lecturers assigned to teach the
courses
4,5&6 Research Continue the Theoretical part of research 6 Nursing Department Research approach
400 Process On going Approval
methodology 2 Lecturers assigned to teach the
courses
All Seminars in Research critique 6 Lecturers assigned to teach the Free lectures according the community
modules Community Health courses needs
Nursing
All Public Health community needs & Application research 6 Supervisors Clinical implication through
modules Process Project
All Public health project Theme : community health 8 Supervisors Clinical implication through
modules Needs Project
All Midwifery project Theme : nurse midwife role regarding the 8 Supervisors Clinical implication through
modules 500 importance of data and applied the practical Project
part of decision making and
recommendation
All Graduation project Professional implication of all modules 8 Supervisors Clinical implication through
modules Project
Total contact hours that will apply M& E 60 It about 4 credit hours

33. High Impact Research
 Planning
 Presentation to NACA, NASCAP and other
commissioners of research
 TOT with faculty from OAU and ABU to lead to
one day symposium for faculty across
departments

34. Questions and Answers

35. MEASURE Evaluation DDU Resources
 www.measureevaluation.org/ddu
 Data Demand and Use Tool Kits
 Data Demand and Use Training Resources
 Next webinar March 6, 2012 at 9:00 am on
Strengthening an Organization’s Capacity to
Demand and Use Data

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37. Presenter Contact Information
 Tara Nutley - tnutley@futuresgroup.com
 Molly Cannon - mcannon@futuresgroup.com

38. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) and implemented by the
Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group International,
ICF International, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for
Health, and Tulane University. Views expressed in this
presentation do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the
U.S. government.
MEASURE Evaluation is the USAID Global Health Bureau's
primary vehicle for supporting improvements in monitoring and
evaluation in population, health and nutrition worldwide