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Well, the best answer is “not much.” As I work on an HRIS implementation in Kigali, Rwanda, this week, I have been giving the need for accurate, continuously maintained data a lot of thought. Many developing countries have embraced decentralization—the shift of decision-making authority from the central level to the regional or local level. While decentralization has many good points, it presents challenges for collecting country-wide data...
When we design information systems, particularly working with stakeholders who have had difficulties accessing data in the past, it can be very tempting to collect every piece of data we can think of, just because we now have a tool that can capture and store the data. But we have to resist such temptations, or we'll end up with systems that are too bloated to maintain and unwieldy amounts of data that are impossible to analyze meaningfully. We...
We have completed the process of uploading all of the documentation for iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify . You can find the vision statements, full use case models and supporting documentation on the software pages . If you are very interested in how we developed this software and how it works, the use cases should prove enlightening. The use case model documents all functions already implemented in each system, as well as future development paths...
Kenyan born Samwel Wakibi is a Human Resource Information Systems Advisor for IntraHealth. With over 18 years of experience in IT, social research, data management and project monitoring and evaluation, Mr Wakibi helps to develop, implement and strengthen HRIS databases in the field. As an HRIS advisor Mr. Wakibi works to initiate and facilitate these processes and is a firm believer in the participatory process undertaken by IntraHealth and the...
Luke, HR Information Systems (HRIS) senior developer, and myself, Geographic Information System (GIS) manager, visited the “Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial” (FOSS4G) conference in Victoria, Canada this last week. We wanted to get a better handle on how HRIS and GIS could interact within an open-source context. We walked away with some major conclusions and ideas on how to further develop GIS capabilities within and beyond HRIS. But...
The East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA) strives to strengthen human resources for health (HRH) to help member states achieve the Millennium Development Goals and other development targets. At ECSA’s recent Directors’ Joint Consultative Committee Meeting in Tanzania (September 4-7), Capacity Project staff presented on the Africa Health Workforce Observatory and highlighted examples from several countries developing human...
The development team has been working very hard and having lots of fun to bring the iHRIS Suite code to the Open Source development community. We have chosen to host the iHRIS Code on Launchpad , a free service for Open Source software hosting and management. See the full iHRIS development project at: https://launchpad.net/ihris-suite . The iHRIS Manage code is currently available, and iHRIS Qualify will follow next week. There you can ask...
A live demonstration of the Capacity Project’s second human resources information system (HRIS) software product, iHRIS Qualify 2.0, is available in the HRIS Strengthening section of the Capacity Project’s website. iHRIS Qualify tracks training, licensing and certification of health workers from pre-service education through attrition. It resides with the licensing or certification authority for a health worker cadre. The current version...
Reports generated from the Swaziland Ministry of Health and Social Work’s Access-based human resources information system, a step-solution that was implemented with the Capacity Project’s assistance, provided valuable input for regional health planning workshops. The data surprised members of the Lubombo Regional Health Management Team, who had been unaware of their region’s heavy dependence on mission nurses. They discovered a number of vacant...
In working with several countries to identify their HRIS needs and strengthen existing systems, the Capacity Project has identified several documents to assist stakeholders and technical leads with defining and documenting their process. We have a growing library of documents available to assist with every step of the process, including 1) definition of a stakeholder leadership group's principles of operation and terms of reference, 2) sample...
