Microplanning

Overview

Health campaign microplanning is a detailed planning approach used to ensure that health interventions, such as immunisations or disease prevention campaigns, are effectively delivered to target populations.

Microplanning helps to know:

1. Who needs the intervention?

2. Where is the intervention needed?

3. How many resources (medical supplies, people, commodities, etc.) are needed for the intervention?

4. How will we reach the intervention site?

Problems Addressed

The Microplanning feature addresses the following challenges.

• Prone to Errors: The microplanning process relies heavily on Excel, which requires meticulous care in resource estimation calculations, making it highly susceptible to errors.

• Fragmented Management: Each district manages its microplan independently, leading to a back-and-forth process for collaboration—incomplete data from any district results in faulty resource estimates for the entire campaign.

• Complex Data Collection: Gathering and validating population data for microplan estimation is a tedious and poorly defined process. Incorrect population estimates can lead to inaccurate resource estimations for the campaign.

• Time-Consuming Collaboration: Microplanning involves multiple people from various administrative levels to administer and validate resource estimations. Offline collaboration is time-consuming and increases the risk of errors if not managed carefully.

• Lack of Reusability: Microplan estimations are created from scratch for each new campaign, making the process lengthy and time-consuming without the benefit of reusing previous plans.

Goals

• Enable countries to be able to collect and validate accurate population data for better & accurate microplan estimation.

• Enable countries to have better accountability mechanisms and controlled access to ensure transparency and authorised access for microplan execution.

• Enable countries to more accurately estimate and distribute resources, ensuring targeted regions are reached and health campaigns are executed smoothly.

• To reduce the time to set up and finalise a microplan from an average of 3 months to 1 month.

Benefits

The Microplanning feature helps build capabilities to maximise campaign coverage, enhance access for health campaigns and fairly estimate resources. The key benefits are listed below:

• Improve population denominator: Leverage data triangulation from multiple sources and validation from community leaders at the village/settlement level to identify and improve the population denominator.

• Targeted Interventions: Leverage data to pinpoint high-risk and unsettled areas and tailor campaign strategies to specific geographic populations.

• Optimised Resource Allocation: Analyse population distribution and resource needs to ensure efficient deployment of personnel, vaccines, and supplies.

• Improved Outreach & Accessibility: Identify underserved communities and map optimal routes for campaign teams, maximising outreach and access.

• Increased Transparency & Accountability: Provide a clear picture of campaign coverage and resource distribution, promoting accountability to stakeholders and communities.