Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA)
About the project
The PMA 2020 platform was launched in 2013 to meet the need for performance tracking to monitor progress towards achieving the goals and principles of the FP 2020 (Family Planning 2020) initiative. The project introduced an innovative data collection approach designed to meet this need, employing only resident female interviewers recruited from within or near the enumeration areas (EAs) of the survey sample, and training them to use mobile Smartphone technologies to collect and send data to a cloud server. This approach offers the opportunity not only for rapid data validation and compilation, but also for the rapid delivery of results. Another key innovation of PMA 2020 was to collect data both from households and women aged 15-49 to measure contraceptive demand and use, and from health delivery sites (HDS), both public and private, serving the relevant DZs to measure service availability and commodity supply.
PMA 2020 is being implemented in 11 countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda under the overall coordination of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (Gates Institute) at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health and in partnership with a network of universities, research institutions and national statistical agencies and with financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In Côte d’Ivoire, two waves of the PMA 2020 survey were carried out between 2017 and 2018.
On the strength of the PMA 2020 results, funding over four (04) years (2019-2022) has been secured for a second phase of the project. This new phase, called Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA), still funded by the Gates Foundation, will be coordinated at global level by the Gates Institute and Jhpiego. During this second phase, while continuing to pursue the initial objectives of the first phase, PMA will introduce methodological innovations: longitudinal follow-up of women over three (years) to gain a better understanding of contraceptive dynamics, the integration of a specific module on adolescent girls and women’s empowerment, etc. Implementation of the PMA survey in Côte d’Ivoire for the next phase has been entrusted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliqué (ENSEA).
Objectives
PMA’s objective is to advance knowledge of the dynamics of family planning and reproductive health at a programmatic level. To achieve this, PMA will collect high-quality, dynamic, cross-sectional data to enable actionable measurement and improve program performance via a sustainable, innovation-driven data collection platform, building on PMA2020.
The project has four interdependent objectives:
- Conduct high-quality surveys focusing on FP and RH program data in targeted geographical areas.
- Increase the use of PMA data by a growing number of stakeholders in decision-making.
- Create a viable, costed and sustainable PMA platform for potential donors.
- Establish industry-leading standards and practices in business management and accountability.
Essential contract information
As part of the project’s implementation, the contract between ENSEA and Jhpiego specifies the conditions to be met with regard to funding approvals and restrictions.
Thus, prior approvals from JHPIEGO are required for the following items:
- international air transport and transport not included in the approved work plan, program description and program budget (also referred to as “the budget”) and ;
- modifications to the budget and work plan in the event of a budget variance exceeding 10% of the approved budget.
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