Data Demand and Information Use in the Health Sector: Strategies and Tools

Data Demand and Information Use (DDIU) is a strategy to identify opportunities for and constraints to effective and strategic data collection, analysis, availability, and use. This strategy begins with an assessment that helps stakeholders, policy-makers, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practitioners determine points of entry for DDIU intervention.

This includes a 126-page document in PDF format on the strategies and tools, as well the following DDIU core tools, available from the website below in PDF format:

1. The Decision Calendar - Provides a systematic approach for stakeholders to leverage data into more productive decision processes by encouraging greater use of and demand for information by decision-makers.
2. Assessment of Data Use Constraints - A rapid assessment tool designed to identify barriers and constraints that inhibit effective practices in data use.
3. Information Use Mapping Tool - It provides a visual context for gaps and defects in data sharing, leading to mid-course course improvements.
4. The Stakeholder Engagement Tool - The tool provides a framework for assessing who the key actors are and identifying their interests, knowledge, positions, alliances, resources, power, and importance.
5. Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) Framework - A conceptual framework encompassing four tools that aid in the assessment, design, monitoring, and evaluation of routine health information systems (RHIS).

MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the United States (US) Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, US, in partnership with Futures Group International, ICF Macro, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, and Tulane University.