Introduction and objectives of the project:

Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) was originally designed to respond to the need for more regular performance monitoring data to track progress against the goals and principles of Family Planning 2020 (FP2020).

PMA’s focus is to develop a transformational and actionable platform that generates and disseminates data, which prove to be indispensable for governments, donors, managers and advocates through a sustainable, innovation-driven data collection platform. For the next 4 years our paramount role will be to provide data, and ensure that decision makers use it to inform policy and programs at national and county level

To address this need, the project introduced a new data collection approach, introducing two new innovations:

1. Employed female resident enumerators recruited from within or near the sampled enumeration area (EA) and trained them to use smartphone technologies to collect and submit data to a cloud server for data validation and aggregation, enabling rapid turnaround.

2. Collecting data both at the household level among women ages 15–49 to measure contraceptive demand and use, and at the facility level among public and private service delivery points (SDPs) that serve the EA to measure service availability and commodity supply.

 Implementation

The implementation is led by MOH with support from Kenya National bureau of statistics (KNBS) and National Council of Population and Development (NCPD). Survey operations are led by ICRHK with technical support from Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (Gates Institute) at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health.

PMA collects real-time data through open data kit (ODK) using mobile devices (mobile phones and/or tablets). Turnaround time for data collection, cleaning, analysis and final dissemination is 12 weeks.

New features of PMA for Action

1. Implementing a panel design with bedded cross-sectional surveys, enabling improved measurement of changing    contraceptive use dynamics and causal factors.

2. Generating a set of core questions that include capture of contextual community norms as well as individual aspirations, intentions and empowerment – plus adolescent-specific

3. Customizing an added set of questions to meet the needs of country governments and stakeholders, including intervention exposure.

4. Engaging project advisory board that can provide guidance on developing actionable questionnaire content, advocate for data use, and build country ownership.

5. Developing enhanced data communication/translation approaches, including customized data products to better match the needs of data users.