Tanzania:CSSC Implementation

The Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC) , is an umbrella group for FBOs in Tanzania. It has implemented iHRIS Manage in its central office to manage health-care workers. It plans to de-centralize the data to zonal offices, and use the central office for data aggregation, reporting and planning.

Contacts

;CSSC Project Manager: Petro Pamba ;CSSC Technical Lead: Mathayo Josephat ;Intrahealth Developer: [mailto:litlfred@ibiblio.org Carl Leitner] Skype:litlfred_intra ;IMA World Health Program Officer HMIS/GIS: [mailto:scotttodd@imaworldhealth.org Scott Todd] ;IMA World Health Consultant/Health Systems Advisor: [mailto:grb176@comcast.net Dr. Glen Brubaker]

Partners and Interested Parties

  • The Capacity Project , funded by USAID , and lead by Intrahealth has been working on strengthening HRIS in Tanzania.

  • During an independent facility mapping activity, IMA World Health began collecting health-care worker data for the CSSC. They are now working with Intrhealth to assist in importing this data to iHRIS Manage and to ensure data quality.

Implementation Timeline

  • February 2009 – Completed

  • *Implement requested customizations for the central office (Dar Es Salaam) of iHRIS Manage 3.1 <br/> Customizations at launchpad <br/> Requested customization details and status at ` google docs <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pLp9bVbTR8oHdmEoJE3SIAg>`_

  • *Install [[iHRIS Appliance]] in the central office

  • *Import health-care worker data (aprox. 12,000 records) provided by IMA and GMI <br/> The import tools on launchpad.

  • March 2009 – In Progress

  • *Add basic facility resource data, such as number of beds, number of maternal beds

  • *Improve data quality:

  • **Import data from missing districts

  • **Merge healthcare worker data held by Petro Pamba and IMA

  • **Ship Appliance with upgraded CPU

  • April 2009 – Planned

  • *Disaggregate health-care worked data in central office by the five zones

  • *Put disaggregated data on appliances, one for each zone

  • *Deploy to zones

Documentation

  • [[Installing the CSSC zonal deployment]]