In 2002 the Ugandan Ministry of Health compiled and distributed a handbook on data collection of Environmental Health information at household level. Although the book was distributed at district and parish level, it was not being used and many officers were not even aware of it.
Published on: 14/05/2012
In 2002 the Ugandan Ministry of Health compiled and distributed a handbook on data collection of Environmental Health information at household level. Although the book was distributed at district and parish level, it was not being used and many officers were not even aware of it. The books had not reached village level.
Parallel to the distribution some districts had starting developing their own data collection tools which are not corresponding to the Ministry’s handbook and not to those developed by other districts. All this was discovered nine years later during a multi-stakeholder meeting in 2011.
After discussions it was decided to standardize the data collection by using the Ministry’s handbook; to have it translated into local languages; to collaborate on data collection; to distribute more copies and to evaluate the book’s relevancy for water-related information.
Read the full case study compiled by the PILS (Performance Improvement through Learning on Sanitation) project.
