Introducing Microplanning

What is Health Campaign Microplanning?

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 supply, people, commodities, etc.) are needed for the intervention?

4. How will we reach the intervention site?

Challenges With Current Microplanning Process?

1. Prone to Errors: The process relies heavily on Excel, requiring meticulous care for resource estimation calculations, making it highly susceptible to errors.

2. Fragmented Management: Each district manages its microplan individually, leading to a back-and-forth process for collaboration. Incomplete data from any district results in faulty resource estimation for the entire campaign.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

Why Digitise the Microplanning Process?

Build capabilities that help maximise campaign coverage, enhance access for health campaigns and fairly estimate resources for microplaning. These can be achieved by the following:

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

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

3. Optimized Resource Allocation: Analyze population distribution and resource needs to ensure efficient deployment of personnel, vaccines, and supplies.

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

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

Goals for Building Microplanning 1.0

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

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

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