Abstract:
This project presents the development of an automated cli~t - r NGO
Service Delivery Partnership (NSDP), a leading family health service provider, for
its operation in urban areas. NSDP provides health services through some local
NGOs that operate service-providing clinics throughout the country. NSDP
currently maintains five MIS in urban areas for monitoring the whole system.
None of these are automated; these are almost manually controlled. NSDP has
to submit a monthly performance report for each NGO to their donor USAID. It
faces a great problem while storing and retrieving necessary information and
submitting the monthly performance reports. The organization thus wants to
develop an automated system, because a complete automation can make their
system dynamic. In this project we propose an automated system that only work
for their clinical MIS. We investigate and analyze their current system, and then
we design and create a database. Finally, we develop a user interface using Java
and link the interface with the database successfully.
We also investigate whether NSDP can implement the proposed system. We find
that the organization has some limitations for implementation of the new
automated system. Computers are essential for maintaining the new system,
whereas the clinics that are operated by NSDP-monitored NGOs have no or very
little computers. The lack of resource persons is also a big problem for NSDP.
Another important limitation is the lack of network facilities. NSDP has to
establish a network of its own to implement the proposed system. And finally,
NSDP needs a huge fund for the implementation of the proposed system.
Though there are some limitations, we recommend that the NSDP should try to
minimize their limitations so that an automated system can be implemented.
NSDP should at least implement a partial automated system to get the
advantages of this new automated system.
