Tanzania - Ifakara Rural INDEPTH Core Dataset 1997-2014 (Release 2017)

Reference ID

INDEPTH.TZ011.CMD2014.V1

Year

1997 - 2014

Country

Tanzania

Producer(s)

Eveline Geubbels - Thematic group leader of M&E Ifakara Health Institute

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfar - MoHSW -
Swiss Tropical Institute - STI -
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - BMGF -
Global Fund for to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria - GFATM -
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation - DDCF -
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Collection(s)

Africa Region – Release 2017

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Jul 01, 2017

Last modified

Jul 01, 2017

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81749

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

Not Applicable

Deviations from Sample Design

None

Response Rate

98% of the residents from the Ifakara DSS area accept to participate on surveillance studies. All refusal are documented and being followed by the field management team to identify its causal or reasons. To ensure effective community engagement on health researches, the Ifakara HDSS have introduced several programs such the use of Community Advisory Board which comprised by members from the grass root of the community. Their main responsibility is to raise community awareness and sensitization and sending feedback to the community about ongoing research activities form the platform. Besides that the Ifakara DSS team uses Key Informants (KIs) and hamlet leaders as a community representative to convene various meetings over the field areas and giving out the progressive reports to feedback the community. Also newsletters and fliers are distributed to the community. This tool is reconstructed in a lay language that everyone can understand. Through these programs strong relation are built as a result of improving community participation on health research activities.

Weighting

Not Applicable