In April 2009, the Capacity Project published an HRIS Strengthening Toolkit, a compilation of briefs, tools, case studies, and other resources intended to aid stakeholders and decision-makers in HRIS development and implementation. The HRIS Toolkit was designed along the lines of the 5 step HRIS strengthening process and focuses on stakeholder leadership, infrastructure strengthening, development [...]
In Rwanda, iHRIS Manage implementation has continued to make progress. Since May 2009, Capacity Staff have held meetings with users and MOH partners to refine expectations for the system. In response to user requests, new reports have been developed for regular use by decision-makers, and further reports are under development. The MOH has ordered several [...]
I attended an interesting session in the policy series entitled: Advocating for Research. Although the speakers focused on vaccine research, I found that many of the points they made had direct application to our work.
We do not think of collecting HR data to feed HRIS as conducting research, since the data are collected for management [...]
As the HRIS research specialist, Julie Spero is focused on the data side of our HRIS work, including research and analysis. She makes sure that the results of our work are disseminated to a wider audience, including through peer-reviewed publications. She assists with other dissemination efforts, such as the HRIS Strengthening Implementation Toolkit. She also provides support for our work in Botswana, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania.