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WHO –Technical Support on Measles Follow-up Campaign in Sudan 2019

Conclusions

The first and foremost conclusion that can be drawn from the experiences obtained over a one -

month period of providing technical assistance is that under the dynamic leadership Dr. Hanan a
new concept of data collection tool was introduced in WHO Sudan for the first time. In the past it

always remained a challenge to summarize and collect the monitoring findings from the field in

real time during any campaign beside deploying many Monitoring and Evaluation teams and
resources.

The data collection tool introduced for the first time in WHO Sudan will set new precedents for

other program to redesign their Monitoring & Evaluation tools for their program interventions.
There are new innovations in humanitarian data collection methods therefore WHO should align

with the new tools. During the current campaign we were able to provide real time updates on the

coverage of vaccination in states and locality, the reasons for non- vaccination and the source of
campaign information. Further the checklist contained indicators on the composition of

vaccination teams, management of campaign and the logistics arrangements. Through this online

data collection tool real time findings were shared with all the partners to best manage the Measles
campaign in Sudan.

There were challenges in the data collection due to the political and security situations in Sudan

beside all these challenges the data collection tool was used to submit more than ten thousand
observations from the field for the nine checklist deployed in the tool kit. Due to internet

connectivity issues in some states, the field monitors were not able to submit the reports on time.

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