Family planning management information system

MIS WILL PROVIDE MORE PERTINENT & MORE MANAGEABLE AMOUNTS OF INFO TO LDC OFFICIALS IN PLNNG & ADMINISTERING FP PROGS. US PROJ STAFF WILL CONSIST OF A DIRECTOR,IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER,SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST,STATISTICIAN-DEMOG RAPHER & A PROGRAMMER. FOLLOWING INITIAL VISITS TO A SERIES OF LDC"S, PROJ STAFF WILL SELECT 5 OR 6 OF THE MOST PROMIS ING CANDIDATES AND CONDUCT A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE OPERATION & MGMT OF THEIR FP PROGS. PROJ STAFF WILL STUDY THE EXISITING MGMT-EVALUATION SYSTEM,INCLUDING TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED,FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION,TYPES OF REPORTS GENERATED & THEIR DISTRIBUTION. STAFF WILL ALSO EXAMINE SYSTEMS BY WHICH DECISIONS ARE TRANSMITTED TO FP OPERATING UNITS. COMPUTER CAPABILITY WILL BE NOTED. MINIMUM OF 2 PROJ ADVISORS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE TEST SITE AS SOON AS A COUNTRY IS SELECTED. THE ADVISORS WILL ASSIST HOST-COUNTRY FP ADMINISTRATORS TO DEVELOP A MGMT FRAMEWORK AND TO "THINK THROUGH" THE PROG & THEIR ROLES IN IT. SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING DECISIONS INTO ACTIONS WILL BE SPECIFICALLY MAPPED OUT. INFO FROM SERVICE STATISTICS & KAP(KNOWLEDGE,ATTITUDES & PRACTICES) STUDIES WILL BE INTEGRATED WITHIN FP DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES. US STAFF WILL TRAIN COUNTERPARTS TO SERVE AS INFO/EVAL SPECIALISTS FOLLOWING THEIR DEPARTURE. FP DATA COLLECTION ACTIVITIES WILL BE REVIEWED IN DEPTH. ROUTINES FOR DATA REDUCTION & ANALYSIS WILL BE OUTLINED,BUT WILL ALSO PERMIT EXPANSION OF THE INFO-HANDLING PROCESS AS GREATER COMPUTER CAPACITY BECOMES AVAILABLE. PROJ STAFF WILL SUGGEST CHANGES IN PROG"S ADMIN STRUCTURE,TRNG & STAFFING PATTERNS AND DIRECTING FLOW OF INFO TO MANAGEMENT. SEMINARS ARE PLNND TO TRAIN LDC FP PROG EVALUATORS IN THE NEWLY DEVELOPED MGMT APPROACHES; TRNG MANUALS & MATERIALS WILL BE PREPARED. ONE FACET OF THIS TRNG ENVISIONS A COMPUTER MODEL DESIGNED TO LET LDC PARTICIPANTS EXPLORE VARIOUS EVAL & DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES & TAILOR A SYSTEM TO FIT THAT PARTICIPANT"S PARTICULAR NEEDS. AN INTNATL ADVISORY GROUP WILL GUIDE PROJ & PROMOTE DISTRIBUTION OF PROJ FINDINGS.