Background 

ChildFund Uganda supports over 29,000 children and needs to conduct regular well-being assessments and adjust programs accordingly. While CFU and its local partners currently conduct quarterly home visits, the information they gather through a 30-question home visitation form is done using pen and paper. Once these forms make it from the field to the head office, CFU staff use excel to enter and analyze the data. This process takes too long and prevents CFU staff from making evidence-based decisions about the children’s care in a time-sensitive manner. Additionally, CFU staff would like to have a case management system that would enable them to track children’s progress from the time they enter CF programs as children to the time when they exit as young adults.  

Through the discovery process with CFU, we co-created this problem statement: 

A lack of real-time case-based data is limiting CF Uganda and its partners’ ability to be aware of and act on information to advise senior management, support beneficiaries, and adjust programming in a time-sensitive manner.

Project Goals

• – Co-create a real-time data management system and process for CF Uganda 
• – Increase data collection and analyses efficiency and effectiveness 
• – Increase evidence-based decision making
• – Increase CF Uganda’s programming responsiveness and ability to improve the well-being of children in Uganda