News & Updates

The Department of Planning and Policy at the Zanzibar Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) is taking a leadership role in coordinating donor and government efforts toward adoption of new systems. Following Capacity Project's installation of the iHRIS Manage software application earlier this year, the Department of Planning and Policy has been working with DANIDA to coordinate a government-wide data collection activity. Work is scheduled...

The Capacity Project has published a new technical brief on data quality : Data Quality Considerations in Human Resource Information Systems Strengthening. The brief was written by Samwel Wakibi, our HRIS advisor for Kenya, Uganda and Southern Sudan and our expert on data quality.Data quality issues have been central to the program experience of the Capacity Project. Experience with issues of data quality has particularly been gained within the...

We are pleased to announce the release of a major upgrade to iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify. Both systems now support customized reporting, which allows users to design and share reports to better analyze and aggregate data entered in the system. This new release of iHRIS Manage also includes an in-service training management module, which enables human resources departments to schedule employees for in-service trainings, evaluate their...

The XVII International AIDS Conference ends today in Mexico City. Yesterday, the Conference issued a press release underscoring the natural alliance between the response to AIDS and the efforts to strengthen health systems in developing countries.From the press release: Speakers at the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) today underscored the importance of simultaneously scaling up AIDS programmes and strengthening health systems in...

An essential part of our five-step HRIS Strengthening Process is to support managers and decision makers to effectively use and analyze data in order to make informed decisions about their health workforce. A new Capacity Project Voices article about Data-Driven Decision-Making (DDDM) was recently finalized last week and posted to the Project’s website here. The article, “Drawing on Data: Effective Decision-Making for the Health Workforce,” is...

Although we had been playing to release new versions of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify in July, as well as Version 1.0 of iHRIS Plan, we had to delay those releases. Our new targeted release date is August 15 for all three systems.Why the delay? We want to release all of the updated systems at the same time because they use a lot of common code that is also getting a major overhaul. We also want to thoroughly test each system and clean up as many...

Southern Sudan is taking important first steps toward the national implementation of iHRIS Manage, the Capacity Project’s human resources (HR) management software. The software will be installed in HR offices in Central Equatoria, Western Bahr al Ghazal and Upper Nile in the upcoming weeks. In preparation, HR officers and HR information systems point persons from each of the three states attended a three-day training session on the system and...

We are currently planning our development for the next project year (July 2008-June 2009), and we have updated our development roadmaps as a result. This year we are focusing on improving the features available in our human resource information systems, based on requests from the countries that are using the systems. This week we hope to release Version 3.1, which will include a custom report builder. This will enable users to construct their own...

We are pleased to announce the release of Offline iHRIS version 3.0.1, available for download at the Launchpad hosting site. This release fixes some bugs in version 3.0: The software previously crashed when generating reports; this has been corrected. Double-clicking the desktop icon now correctly launches the software. Some branding issues have been corrected.If you have previously downloaded and installed Version 3.0, please remove it using Add...

In June Laticha Walters joined the IntraHealth team as the local Namibian HRIS Advisor. Laticha will be seated at the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), working directly with all stakeholders to ensure adherence to the Capacity-funded HRIS strengthening activity plan. She brings a wealth of professionalism and project management experience with recent government experience and already knows many MoHSS and Office of the Prime Minister...