The launch of the Tanzania HDC to establish One Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Health Sector of the Government of Tanzania took place September 11-13 in Dar es Salaam, attended by 145 participants across the Ministry of Health, the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government, and partners.
As climate change raises the risk of vector-borne diseases such as Zika virus and dengue fever, Grenada’s Ministry of Health and Social Security has been collaborating with HDC partners GIZ and the University of Oslo to build the Caribbean island country’s capacity to plan for and respond to these climate-related health threats.
Kenya’s Ministry of Health is developing a Kenya Health Observatory (KHO) to improve the availability and use of health information. The observatory is planned to be an open-access one-stop-shop for data and statistics, including research data, and will facilitate active tracking of the state and determinants of health in the country.
To help meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the first-ever 21st century, state-of-the-art, comprehensive CRVS eLearning course was launched on May 23, 2017. The development of the eLearning course was coordinated by the World Bank Group, with contributions from several HDC partners.
The Health Data Collaborative approach was presented at the UN World Data Forum to explore stronger linkages between the health sector and statistical communities in countries.
Tracking the performance of a country's health sector requires robust capacity for collecting and analyzing accurate data. Nigeria's health ministry held a two-day workshop in October to identify gaps in its health data capacity that can be collectively addressed by partners in a coordinated way.
To unlock the full value of digital technologies for strengthening global health outcomes, countries and partners must now work together to link multiple disconnected digital health data systems.
