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Building Data Management Capacity Through Data Quality Assessments: Appreciative Inquiry Meets Auditing
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| Anzel Schonfeldt,
Khulisa Management Services (Pty) Ltd,
aschonfeldt@khulisa.com
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| Mary Pat Selvaggio,
Khulisa Management Services (Pty) Ltd,
mpselvaggio@khulisa.com
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| Abstract:
To build capacity of PEPFAR /South Africa partners in M&E and data management, Khulisa Management Services conducts DQA (Data Quality Assessments/Audits) of partners DMS (Data Management System) and the data contained within it. Khulisa’s 3-phased DQA approach is rooted in Total Quality Management principles and ISO 9001 Internal Quality Auditing methodologies that examine internal organizational systems, processes, or procedures against pre-determined standards for quality. Phase 1 is a self assessment and macro evaluation of the partners’ DMS. Phase 2 is the in-depth, trace-and-verify audit which validates data from source through to reporting. Phase 3 is a follow-up assessment to those partners who were found to have major vulnerabilities in their DMS. Recently Khulisa redesigned its Phase 2 ‘trace-and-verify’ process and tool to incorporate Appreciative Inquiry (AI) concepts into the assessment process, allowing for a more capacitating process and richer assessment results that can be used to inform technical assistance responses.
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The Value of Measurements and Where They Apply: Monitoring Requirements for Evaluation of Population Policy
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| Liezl Coetzee,
Southern Hemisphere Consultants,
liezl@southernhemisphere.co.za
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One of the guiding principles in the South Africa Government’s “Policy Framework for the Government Wide Monitoring and Evaluation System” (2007) is that “Monitoring and the development and enforcement of statistical standards are important pre-conditions for evaluation." The policy thus places primary emphasis on monitoring, until a stage where institutional capacity has been built, when more emphasis will be placed on evaluation.
This paper will explore the linkages between monitoring an evaluation, looking at the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for South Africa’s Population Policy Unit (PPU), tasked with monitoring and evaluation of the country’s Population Policy (1998). This plan will be used as an example to illustrate areas requiring monitoring, and those requiring evaluation. It will show how monitoring can be integrated with different stages of evaluation, for example linking collection of baseline data with a planning evaluation, and using monitoring data in formative and summative evaluations.
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