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The USAID-funded MEASURE program, which began its second phase in 2003, is designed to provide and promote the use of accurate and timely information on population, health, and nutrition in developing countries. The projects offer technical services in data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use.

MEASURE Program
Together, the four MEASURE partners (MEASURE DHS, MEASURE Evaluation, MEASURE U.S. Census Bureau-SCILS, and MEASURE CDC/DRH) provide a full range of related services, which include promoting the demand for quality data; providing technical assistance, training, systems development, data collection and analysis, and capacity-building services; and disseminating information and facilitating its use in decisionmaking. In consultation with USAID Mission staff, local counterparts, cooperating agencies working in-country, USAID Global Health staff, and other donors, MEASURE partners prepare a comprehensive strategy for monitoring and evaluation as well as data collection, dissemination, and use for each country in which there is substantial MEASURE support.

Focus areas for this phase of MEASURE are to

Identify and work with potential data users to build demand and define essential data
Determine the most appropriate data collection approaches (routine and nonroutine)
Develop innovative and cost-effective data collection approaches
Translate data into information for program planning and policymaking
Disseminate information and improve its use in influencing policy and program planning
Facilitate the use of data by ensuring inclusion of data users in the planning stages of data collection, analysis, and dissemination
Build the capacity of data users and producers in all of the above areas
Design and implement all products and activities within a gender perspective.

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Funds for MEASURE are provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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