Background and Rationale for the Scorecard
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The draft Health Sector Strategic Plan 2012-2017 aims to increase national coverage of community units by establishing 8000 functional Community Units (CUs).
AMREF through the FHI360 led APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde Project is scaling up implementation of the Community Strategy in Rift Valley Province by establishing new units and strengthening existing community units. The APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde project is funded by USAID.
In early 2012, the project encountered challenges in tracking and managing functionality of the large number of community units (more than 100) that it was supporting. This is a common challenge because in many areas of the country, community units have been established, but without a common standard for moving them towards functionality.
As aresult, the project team (in consultation with the local DHMT, PHMT and USAID) identified fundamental ingredients necessary to attain basic functionality of community units and used these to develop a Functionality Scorecard.
The Functionality Scorecard has proven to be a valuable management tool in managing performance, resource allocation, and decision making by the APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde project team when managing a large number of community units.
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