Tanzania:CSSC Implementation

The Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC), is an umbrella group for FBOs in Tanzania. It has implemented iHRIS Manage in its central office to manage health-care workers.

Contacts

Project Manager

Petro Pamba

Technical Lead

Mathayo Josephat

Partners and Interested Parties

• Capacity Project/Intrahealth The Capacity Project, funded by USAID, and lead by Intrahealth has been working on strengthening HRIS in Tanzania.
• During an independent facility mapping activity, IMA World Health began collecting health-care worker data for the CSSC. They are now working with Intrhealth to assist in importing this data to iHRIS Manage and to ensure data quality.

Implementation Plan

• February 2009 -- Completed
  • Implement requested customizations for the central office (Dar Es Salaam) of iHRIS Manage 3.1
    Customizations at launchpad
  • Install iHRIS Appliance in the central office
  • Import health-care worker data (aprox. 12,000 records) provided by IMA and GMI

• March 2009 -- In Progress
  • Add basic facility resource data, such as number of beds, number of maternal beds
  • Improve data quality:
    • Import data from missing districts
    • Merge healthcare worker data held by Petro Pamba and IMA

• April 2009 -- Planned
  • Disaggregate health-care worked data in central office by the five zones
  • Put disaggregated data on appliances, one for each zone
  • Deploy to zones