IDEAS project - Feasibility study for a Data Informed Platform for Health in Ethiopia

Berhanu, D and Tadesse, S. 2012. IDEAS project - Feasibility study for a Data Informed Platform for Health in Ethiopia. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.171.

Berhanu, D and Tadesse, S. IDEAS project - Feasibility study for a Data Informed Platform for Health in Ethiopia [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2012. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.171.

Berhanu, D and Tadesse, S (2012). IDEAS project - Feasibility study for a Data Informed Platform for Health in Ethiopia. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.171.

Description

The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. This is the documentation for a study to assess the feasibility of introducing a Data Informed Platform for Health (DIPH) – a framework to guide coordination and bring together key data from public and private health sectors on inputs and processes that could influence maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia. The DIPH was intended to promote the use of local data for decision-making and priority setting at local health administration level, and for programme appraisal and comparison at regional, zonal and woreda level. A preliminary scoping visit - a series of meetings with woreda health offices, health centres and health posts, private health facilities and NGOs - to introduce the IDEAS project and DIPH work, select those to be covered in the feasibility study, and identify key contacts – and for the feasibility study was conducted prior to the feasibility study. These resources include a scoping visit field report, and documentation for the DIPH feasibility study, including the concept note and protocol, a question list and field report.

Methods

Description of data capture

Interviews with staff of 18 institutions in two zones, West Showa in Oromia region and North Showa in Amhara region, and in Addis Ababa.

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face

Data Collection Period

From	To
June 2012	July 2012

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

2012

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
15.0304	48.0322	3.38255	32.5635

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Berhanu, D and Tadesse, S
Associated roles	Schellenberg, J (Principal Investigator), Avan, B (Project Leader), Berhanu, D (Regional Co-ordinator) and Tadesse, S (Researcher)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	Centre for Evaluation Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH)
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, JaRco Consulting, Addis Ababa