Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi. Figures Citation: Douglas GP, Gadabu OJ, Joukes S, Mumba S, McKay MV, et al. (2010) Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi.
PLoS Med 7(8): e1000319. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000319 Published: August 10, 2010 Copyright: © 2010 Douglas et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: We thank the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, Global AIDS Program, an anonymous donor, and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) for supporting the development and scale-up of the ART EMR in Malawi.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Provenance: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. Background Start of ART EMR in Malawi Figure 1. Table 1. Mapping for Results. Open Development and Aid Management in Malawi. Malawi is an aid dependent country with 60% to 80% of its development budget financed by external sources.
In this context, development funding is critical to reducing Malawi's poverty headcount from the current 52% and accelerating progress towards meeting four of the Millennium Development Goals that Malawi is unlikely to meet by 2015. Recently, the country has experienced governance issues where huge amounts of public funds were fraudulently accessed by government officials. Together, these factors make transparency of public resources more important than ever. In line with its quest to enhance aid transparency, the Malawi Government hosted a workshop on October 29 to engage stakeholders in using open data for evidence-based policy, with support from the Open Aid Partnership, World Bank and UNDP.
The platform also incorporates a geocoding component that helps development partners to enter data on the precise locations of the projects they finance. Open Aid Partnership in Malawi. Item. Description As part of the World Bank’s new Policy on Access to Information and building on the success of the Open Data initiative, the World Bank launched the interactive Mapping for Results (M4R) platform in October 2010.
The initiative visualizes the location of World Bank projects to better monitor project and impact on people; to enhance transparency and social accountability; and to enable citizens and other stakeholders to provide direct feedback. For the 2011 World Bank Annual Meetings, the World Bank has released maps of project locations at the sub-national level for all International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) countries. The World Bank in partnership with AidData has geocoded and mapped more than 30,000 geographic locations for more than 2,500 Bank-financed projects. You can find out more about the Mapping for Results Initiative here (maps.worldbank.org). Users have two options for displaying data. Malawi - Resources - Malawi Socio-Economic Database (MASEDA) Malawi Socio-Economic Database (MASEDA) The Malawi Socio-Economic Database (MASEDA ) is the first comprehensive and up-to-date socio-economic database on the situation of human development in Malawi for use by government institutions, the donor community and civil society counterparts.
MASEDA was created by UNICEF and the National Statistics Office in collaboration with Malawi’s development partners. It was developed to enable the civil society organisations, international organisation, government departments, academic institutions as well as policy makers to have access to the information for their own purposes pertaining to socio-economic development in Malawi. Version 3.0 contains information on each sector of the economy that is critical to Malawi's socio-economic development and poverty reduction and contains data for a total of 245 indicators. MASEDA website Download MASEDA brochure [PDF] Health Facilities in Malawi — MASDAP. MASDAP - Malawi Spatial Data Portal.