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Strategic Information and
Introduction to the Country Response
Information System
By Geoff Manthey,
Chief
CRIS Unit, UNAIDS.
Strategic Information
used for National Strategic Plans
Situational assessment
– Policy index
– Resources
– Prevention
– Care
– Treatment
– Knowledge and behaviour
– Impact
Questions for national responses
• How can we ensure that lessons learned
are not lessons lost?
• How do we begin to have greater access,
synergy and cohesion vis-à-vis strategic
information?
• How to coordinate a variety of
information sources?
• How do our information systems work
together?
What is Strategic Information?
• lessons learned – in countries of
Southern America, globally
• Knowledge of “what works”
among and between partners
• Indicators – input, impact,
outcome, etc
• Inventories – partners, research,
activities
• Resource tracking
• Policies and legislation
What strategic information is needed?
• Does it have relevance to NSP and the
national response
• Can the data be collected according to agreed
guidelines?
• Are there resources available to collect the
data
• Will the data used? Will it be made available to
all partners?
Collect what will be used for your program
management.
Information
for a strengthened AIDS program
Improved data
collection and
strategic
information
Sustained expanded
national response
Strengthened policy
and planning
Improved analysis and
synthesis of
information
National Strategic Plan
(including National M&E Plan)
Programmatic data
with core and local
Indicators
National Reporting to
UNGASS or partners
CRIS – the system
Questions to answer!
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How will it work in your country?
Where will it be, where will it live?
Who will use it?
What indicators and other information
will be contained within the system?
Issues we considered
when developing CRIS
• How to improve flow of national and
sub-national data for national AIDS
responses?
• How to prepare NAC information
systems (if they exist) for the Internet?
• What analytical tools are required by
NACs / NAPs?
• How do we leverage existing
applications and their analytical tools for
NACs / NAPs?
CRIS
An information system for National AIDS
Councils – allows systematic (1)
collection, (2) storage, (3) analysis, (4)
retrieval and (5) dissemination of
information on a country’s response to
HIV/AIDS
What does CRIS look like?
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Indicator database (Version 1.4
available)
Project / resource tracking database
(end 2003)
Research Inventory database (end
2003)
Who can use CRIS?
1. National entities including National
AIDS Councils & National AIDS
Programs
2. NGOs and civil society
3. GFATM (Global Fund)
4. Regional entities
5. Donor/bilateral agencies (CDC GAP)
6. The UN system (World Bank MAP)
Immediate benefits of CRIS
• Rapid establishment of an information
system at country level
• Strengthening of existing systems
• Enhanced ability to monitor National
Strategic Plan and the national response
• Improved ability to report to funding
sources e.g. GFATM, WB and UN
Other benefits…..
• Supports global indicator standardization
process, transmission format and
prioritisation
• Supports next generation indicator
development process
• Manages large volumes of information
• Streamlines information flows and
greater local access
Where will the principle CRIS live?
• Negotiated with each country
• National AIDS Commission / Council
recommended
• Consider technical and human resource
capacity available and/or planned
• Can have a “temporary” home
• Can be installed as “peer” systems in line
Ministries, sub-national and/or NGOs
Introduction to the GRID
Global Response Information Database
available via the UNAIDS website
links via the GRID…..
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AIDS Programme Indicator Survey
AIDS Programme Effort Index
HealthMapper / Global Atlas (WHO)
EpiFact Sheets
DHS
Key documents
Contacts
Indicator Database
• 1st available component of CRIS
• Core indicators (UNGASS) that are
consistent across all CRIS
• Ability to add indicators specific to national
AIDS responses
• Ability to add regionally specific indicators
Indicator Database V1.4b
• Multilingual capability (EN,FR,RU,SP)
• It could easily be translated into Asian
languages including Indonesian
• PivotTable and charting capability
• Indicator management, e.g. status
• Data import/export of data and definitions
• Comments field to support report making
Features of CRIS IND?
• Allows countries to load all global data
• Ability to share indicator definitions
• Demonstrated that minimal training
required
• Immediate use – rapid installation via
CD-Rom
• Leverages the functionality of other
information systems through data
exchange
More features
• Application is browser based
• Configured as stand alone, but in future
network and web-enabled
• HTML technology allows for ease of
addition of screens to the system
• SQL Server 2000 Desktop allows for
migration to SQL Server
Project / resource tracking database
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Available end 2003
Allows data collection in a hierarchical
fashion
Project – Intervention – Activity
Project level data (summary information)
exportable
PRT
Data to include:
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Sub-national functional level i.e. province or district
Executing/implementing organization
Resource provider (donor)
Planned or actual start and/or end dates for projects
Target populations' sex, age group, occupation and/or
ethnicity
– A variety of activity descriptions or keywords that
more fully describe projects
– How a project fulfills the goals in the National
Strategic Plan.
Project/resource tracking database
Project
Intervention
Activity
Activity
Intervention
Activity
Activity
Activity
Activity
Research Inventory Database
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To be released by end of 2003
Existing systems evaluated
Database design in progress
Compatibility with PRT database
Harmonization with existing systems, e.g.
NIH, USAID
• Data from funding agencies & from the
country level
• Information available on GRID
• Analysis on gaps and opportunities (research
and partners)
Research Inventory Database
Global Research data
Analysis of Gaps, opportunities and possible partnerships
(Information available at country and global levels)
Country level data
RID
• Pilot in a number of priority countries
• National Research Institution to partner
with National AIDS Council / Commission
• Match global research award data with
national research data
Current issues
• CRIS complements & leverages other
information systems – how to communicate this
message well
• CRIS can be used to leverage the establishment
/ improvement of a basic M&E system – how do
we do this?
• Need for “model” countries where CRIS / M&E is
functioning – which countries and in what time
frame?
• Developing capacity among (cosponsors’)
country based staff for M&E and CRIS – joint
action required
CRIS endorsed by:
• UNAIDS Programme Coordinating
Board
• UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring
Organizations
• Monitoring and Evaluation Reference
Group (MERG) and its members
• USAID
• CDC
• DfID
• Governments of Japan, Norway &
Portugal.
Things to remember
before installing CRIS
• Does your Hardware meet the
documented requirements
• You will need to have administrator rights
to computer for installation
• Your computer Operating System must be
Windows 2000 not an earlier model
A User Guide has
been developed to
guide you through
the installation
process as well as
other functionality.