1. Session: 5 Using the RDQA tool for System Assessment
MEASURE EVALUATION
Data Quality Assurance Workshop
Session: 5
Using the RDQA tool for System Assessment

2. Topics to Cover
Using the RDQA tool for System Assessment

3. Ongoing Monitoring & Follow up
The RDQA Process
Data Verification
System Assessment
Interpret the Output
Develop Action Plans
Disseminate Results
Ongoing Monitoring & Follow up

4. Part II of RDQA – System Assessment
Purpose
Identify potential threats to data quality from the data management and reporting system due to
How it is designed
How it is implemented
Open the RDQA Tool to show a quick overview of each worksheet

5. M&E Areas that Ensure Data Quality
M&E Structures, functions, capabilities
Indicator definition & reporting guidelines
Data collection, reporting, forms and tools
Data management processes
Links to the national reporting system
The questions for the systems assessment are grouped into 5 functional areas: M&E Structures, Functions and Capabilities; Indicator Definitions and Reporting Guidelines; Data Collection and Reporting Forms and Tools; Data Management Processes; Links to the National Reporting System.

6. M&E Areas that Affect System Assessment

7. Conducting a System Assessment
Apply the system assessment questionnaire in a participatory manner with all relevant M&E staff present
Discuss answers thoroughly
Take detailed notes to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the responses

8. Conducting a System Assessment
Now let’s explore the system assessment sections in the RDQA tool

9. Scoring System Assessment
Why is it important to discuss the scoring with your team before conducting the RDQA?

10. Scoring System Assessment
Emphasize to the workshop participants that before they start collecting data, they need to define within their teams how to code information, i.e. as yes- completely, partly, or no- not at all. Definitions must be established by the RDQA team before starting site visits. For many procedure documentation questions, “completely” means the procedure is written down & implemented. If more than one staffer can explain the procedure but it’s not written, you can score “partly.”

11. System Assessment Findings ~Example~

12. System Assessment Findings ~Example~

13. Questions & Answers

14. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) and implemented by the
Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group, ICF International,
John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, and Tulane
University. Views expressed in this presentation do not necessarily
reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. government.
MEASURE Evaluation is the USAID Global Health Bureau's
primary vehicle for supporting improvements in monitoring and
evaluation in population, health and nutrition worldwide.