Presented by Steve Sapirie

1. HIS Strategic Planning
InAfghanistan
2009 and 2015
Steve Sapirie, MBA, DrPH
MEASURE Evaluation
Management Sciences for Health
16 March 2015
MEASURE Evaluation Phase 4 Launch

2. Characteristics and principles
of the HIS-SP process
• Government owned and managed process
• Nat’l views take precedence in discussion/decisions
• Advisor maintains low profile
• HIS strategy oriented toward national public health policy,
strategy and service performance
• Process supported by:
• Core Technical Working Group
• Stakeholder Working Group
• HIS Steering Committee

3. Planning focused on priority
HIS systems and functions
• HMIS, central & sub-national level
• Monitoring Function at all system levels
• DEWS/Surveillance system
• Pharmaceutical Information System
• HR Information System
• Expenditure Information System
• TB Information System
• Health Research and Evaluation
• IT systems development and maintenance

4. Initial planning products
• Past 5-year achievements of each sub-
system
• Current constraints and performance gaps
• Priorities for sub-system development
• Definition of sub-system objectives
• Key interventions and products for each
objective
• Steering Committee approval for strategic
plan framework

5. Remaining tasks
• Overall cost estimates of each intervention
• Implementation plan
• Challenges and risks
• Monitoring framework
• Assemble / finalize the strategic plan
• Document

6. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) under terms
of Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-L-14-00004 and
implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures
Group, ICF International, John Snow, Inc., Management
Sciences for Health, and Tulane University. The views
expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect
the views of USAID or the United States government.
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