For over 50 years, CSF has been supporting human development by applying innovations in the area of information management. Our work has spanned six continents, over 130 countries, multiple languages and a range of development sectors. We welcome you to learn more about our work through a review of our portfolio.
With growing uncertainties in higher education due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, academic planners and decision-makers around the United States are adopting innovative measures to be more efficient, collaborative, and transparent in their efforts to achieve institutional priorities.
To improve planning, monitoring and reporting processes within a higher education institution, Community Systems Foundation (CSF) supported Alma College to use the results-based monitoring tool called Data For All (DFA) Monitoring. This open-source software solution is now tracking the progress toward the Evergreen 2021-2025 Strategic Plan.
The School Health and Wellness Program (SHWP) was launched in February 2020 under the Ayushman Bharat Initiative (ABI) in India. It is a school based health promotion initiative that hopes to increase the hygiene and disease prevention efforts in school children.
Through this webinar, Jon F. Kapp, Executive Director of Community Systems Foundation, outlines a proposal to address new demands and challenges in international development data, introducing tools to improve the way data is collected, managed and utilized. In discussing ongoing projects in Cote D’Ivoire, Sudan and East Africa more broadly, Kapp highlights to viewers the power and potential of the Data For All toolkit as it relates to building new platforms and improving existing ones.
The final story in the DFA Monitoring series highlights how the tool has been adapted to support organizations in monitoring their strategic plans.
The first organization is Out4Undergrad,a US-based non-profit working to assist LGBTQ+ students as they move through university to next steps in their academic or professional career.
The second is Alma College, a small liberal arts college in Michigan, USA.
Alma College is the first higher education institution that has applied and benefited from DFA Monitoring.
Over the course of a several year partnership, Community Systems Foundation has worked with the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) to configure and roll out DFA Monitoring to monitor the status of national priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As a multi-sectoral initiative, DFA Monitoring is being used to track the progress being made in a broad socio-economic context.
Since 2008, the UN Global Joint Programme (JP) on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has supported “more than 3.2 million girls and women in 17 countries” [1] The JP, a partnership between The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF has assisted with provision of appropriate and quality services, increased community-led engagement, legal and policy frameworks, government ownership and increased access to accurate and timely data.
The global pandemic has created unprecedented challenges in the international development sector.
Many countries now face greater risks than ever in the realization of sustainable development goals by 2030.
Presently, millions of people die every day from diseases that could have been prevented or cured with access to quality health services and affordable, effective medicines. [1] Living in a global environment where transitions continuously occur, countries often face the challenge of finding the time and resources needed to document healthcare progress and policies that lead to health gaps.