KPUganda was dually represented for the second lauch of RMNCH Score card, and here was a speech from the UNHCO Executive Director, Ms Robinah Kaitiritimba noted that UNHCO was selected to develop the score card owing to her previous experience in successfully implementing social accountability programs. She thanked the Ministry of Health for entrusting UNHCO in develope the score card. She noted that as UNHCO, they have been working with score cards for quite a while especially at the community level – raising citizen awareness on rights and responsibilities.
“We are happy to say the scorecard has been concluded – we started off about a year ago
. We thank World Vision which has been the grant holder. Most importantly, we also thank Ministry of Health, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO and the district stakeholders that have been very helpful – they are very excited about the opportunities and ease of work with data that the score card brings”.
“We started off with meetings to solicit system needs from various stakeholders. We discussed indicators – some of which are not monitored by the information system at the Ministry of Health at the moment. After we developed the indicators, we went back to the drawing board to develop the scorecard”.
“The team that is here is the one that has been at the centre of the development of the Score card. We appreciate the efforts you have put into its development”.
The development of the scorecard was done in a participatory, inclusive and consultative process that included district and national level stakeholders and health development partners. He noted that the Ministry of Health expects that the scorecard will galvanise and increase stakeholder collective performance assessment and support .
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