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As we stand at the threshold of a new year, Data for Impact (D4I) celebrates the milestones and collective achievements in 2023 that have supported evidence use to improve programs, policies, and health outcomes.

2023 Unwrapped: D4I Highlights

Ministry of Health of Tanzania team & IHI staff at the RMNCAH+N conference. © 2023 Saburi Seif

D4I, Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), icddr,b, and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine showcased the EN-MINI tools at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. IHI also presented the EN-MINI Tools at the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health + Nutrition Conference (RMNCAH+N) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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D4I hosted five webinars in a series focused on health equity in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). High-quality data can help stakeholders better understand current health inequities, promote equity-sensitive program approaches, measure progress toward equity, support accountability for equity, and raise awareness about actions that affect health equity.

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Camelia Gheorghe, D4I’s Chief of Party in Moldova, speakiong about the Data Review Room.

D4I’s work in Moldova won the 2023 Collaborate, Learn, and Adapt (CLA) Case Competition for external collaboration and adaptive management. Two Data Review Rooms were launched in 2023 to support the Moldova Ministry of Labor and Social Protection to integrate data-driven decision making in their response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

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Knowledge SUCCESS published a four-part blog series about D4I's Small Grants Program. The series highlighted family planning and reproductive health research in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Nepal.

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D4I & icddr,b team members at USAID’s RDM Activity celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © 2023 D4I

Bangladesh celebrated the close-out of the Research for Decision Making (RDM) activity. The event showcased RDM's evidence-based research and policy analysis over the six-year project. Many RDM studies were conducted collaboratively with D4I.

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In collaboration with the WHO, D4I updated the capacity strengthening curriculum materials for the Analysis and use of health facility data: guidance for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programme managers. The materials can be used in workshops to strengthen capacity for analysis, interpretation, and use of routine health information systems data.

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Group work during the DSA Guide Pilot Workshop Series in Kampala, Uganda. © 2023 Scott Isbrandt, D4I

In 2023, D4I facilitated a pilot of the Digital Skills Assessment (DSA) Guide with the Uganda Ministry of Gender, Labor, and Social Development and other child protection stakeholders. The updated DSA Guide provides steps to inform the development of a customizable assessment of digital skills.

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D4I collaborated with MOMENTUM’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Innovation, and Learning Working Group and Nigerian-based Data Research and Mapping Consult, Ltd. (DRMC) to host a webinar panel and discussion about tools that catalyze local capacity strengthening.

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Roundtable presenters at the AEA Conference. © 2023 Jessica Fehringer, D4I

D4I attended the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. D4I staff and partners shared work on localization and participated in a roundtable on capacity strengthening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, a panel on narratives of sustainability in Nigeria, and a session about an assessment of USAID's Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy.

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D4I assessed three service delivery High Impact Practices (HIPs) across selected USAID-funded projects in Bangladesh and Tanzania to understand the extent to which the HIPs follow implementation standards or core components. To learn more about the assessment, check out the summary brief, methodological brief, or core components checklist.

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Piloting the revised Gender Competency Self-Assessment Tool in Uganda. © 2022 Eve Namisango, D4I

Ghana Health Services and D4I are collaborating to enhance the gender competency of family planning providers. Read our blog post “How Can We Strengthen Gender Competency in Reproductive Health Services” to find out more about D4I’s Gender Competency Self-Assessment Tool for Family Planning Providers or watch our recent webinar.

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In 2023, D4I hosted close-out events to highlight collaboration with two government ministries to strengthen child protection programs and policies. In Armenia, D4I supported the establishment of a case management information system for the Armenia Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In Colombia, D4I supported the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) to develop and prioritize indicators that monitor and evaluate the standardization and quality of case management.

Representatives from D4I, the Armenia Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs, & USAID/Armenia at the close-out event.

Participants and D4I facilitators during the July workshop in Colombia. © 2023 Tory Taylor, D4

This email was produced with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the Data for Impact (D4I) associate award 7200AA18LA00008, which is implemented by the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in partnership with Palladium International, LLC; ICF Macro, Inc.; John Snow, Inc.; and Tulane University. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States government.

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