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MEASURE Evaluation, a USAID-funded project, supports improvements in
monitoring and evaluation population, health and nutrition worldwide.
Please find announcements of upcoming workshops and new publications below.

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*Upcoming Integration for Impact Conference*
Abstracts by MEASURE Evaluation staff members have been accepted for
presentation at the Integration for Impact Conference. The conference will
take place September 12 – 14 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Find out more about the conference at <http://goo.gl/V7tRv>
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*Workshops*
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*GIS Application in Public Health Workshop*
This workshop for English-speaking professionals will cover the concept of
geographic information systems (GIS), use of GIS in public health,
preparing databases for GIS, and preparing GIS output from data, and
application of GIS software. The workshop is sponsored by the Public Health
Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, India in collaboration with MEASURE
Evaluation. This 5-day course will be held October 8 – 12, 2012 in New
Delhi, India.

Applications must be submitted to PHFI by September 7, 2012.

Find out more about the workshop at <http://goo.gl/6xQZu>

*Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programs Workshop*
Ahmadu Bello University in collaboration with MEASURE Evaluation announces
a national workshop on “Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health
Programs” in Zaria, Nigeria. The workshop will be held November 5 – 16,
2012.

The closing date for submission of the application forms is September 30,
2012.

Find out more at <http://goo.gl/Iush9>

*Publications*

*Improving Data Use in Decision Making: An Intervention to Strengthen
Health Systems* <http://goo.gl/50vHC>
The World Health Organization’s framework for health systems strengthening
identifies six attributes of a health system: a health workforce; health
services; health financing; governance and leadership; medical products,
vaccines, and technologies; and health information. While each building
block of the WHO framework is important, quality and timely data from
health information systems are the foundation of the health system and
inform decision making in each of the other five building blocks of the
health system. This paper discusses the unique role of health data in
strengthening the other five building blocks of health systems and defines
specific interventions to strengthen the use of data in decision making. It
also provides a framework for developing, monitoring, and evaluating
interventions to improve the use of and demand for data. The overall aim of
the paper is to articulate specific interventions that can improve the
demand for and use of data in decision making so that improvements in the
other health building blocks can be realized.

*Women’s Empowerment and Choice of Contraceptive Methods in Selected
African Countries*<http://goo.gl/W7qwy>
It is generally believed that women's lack of decision-making power may
restrict their use of modern contraceptives. However, few studies have
examined the different dimensions of women's empowerment and contraceptive
use in African countries. This study uses data from the latest round of
Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2006 and 2008 in Namibia,
Zambia, Ghana and Uganda to identify associations between empowerment
dimensions and contraceptive method use.

*Review of the Evidence: Linkages between Livelihood, Food Security,
Economic Strengthening, and HIV-Related Outcomes *<http://goo.gl/KyURj>
This paper assesses the linkages between poverty, livelihood, food
security, economic strengthening, and HIV/AIDS-related outcomes through a
literature review. It is intended to inform a logic model for FHI 360’s
Livelihood and Food Security Technical Assistance (LIFT) project by
determining the extent to which household food security and livelihood
status are associated with HIV/AIDS-related outcomes; examining the
evidence related to the impact of a variety of food security, livelihoods
and economic strengthening interventions on HIV/AIDS-related outcomes; and
identifying gaps in the evidence. This review of the state of the evidence
and identification of gaps will feed into the development of LIFT’s
research agenda to explore these issues in greater depth.

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