While appreciating the role of the EU and UN in the MDGi programme, Professor Elwyn Chomba, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Healh, said, "I urge you all to pay attention to the findings of the five baseline reports and learn some of the challenges Zambia is still facing and utilize the findings to inform evidence based planning for health".
Therefore this research was conducted with a general objective of assessing the effect of azithromycin mass treatment on the prevalence of active trachoma two years after three rounds of mass treatment of the community at Cheha district, Gurage zone that will help for evidence based planning in the future.
District-level evidence based planning In Bangladesh, plan and budget for district and upazila level health systems have always been centrally managed from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoH&FW).
Giving government technical advisers and policy makers an orientation about the requirements for evidence based planning could help.
UNICEF and UNESCO jointly support the scale up of a functional Education Management Information Systems (EMIS in order to generate timely and quality data for evidence based planning.
The municipal professionals are also trained in the evidence based planning, statistics, research and analytical methods, budgeting for children and other relevant fields that relays on accurate and updated data.
Overall the workshop will make the case for better evidenced based planning and policy development in the area of violence against children and share lessons learned from an international level.
The reports were shared back to the province, which was used for programme monitoring and evidence base planning of local interventions.
Preference given to proposals which have an explicit plan for integration of evidence based practices into community settings with a plan for sustainability, and a plan to mobilize community assets and strengths to test feasibility of implementation strategies for population health improvement.
It is therefore important that the future impacts of climate change are assessed for evidence based adaptation planning and support.
Analytical skills for developing evidence based provincial plans and strategies are critically needed if the CARG approach to agricultural development is to succeed.
