Performance Monitoring For Action (formerly PMA2020)

“Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020” (PMA2020) is a five-year project that contributes to a global monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system for family planning and provides rich information useful for reporting, planning, operational decisions and advocacy at the community, country and global levels. In this effort PMA2020 has developed and fielded a mobile-Assisted Data and Dissemination System (mADDS) survey using mobile devices to measure core and country-specific indicators. This rapid data collection system, mADDS, uses mobile devices and technology to automatically and periodically update data for family planning and select water and sanitation M&E indicators. mADDS will use a sentinel area design to monitor family planning performance at various levels of aggregation, longitudinally over time, and in relatively real-time. PMA2020 supports regular low-cost, rapid-turnaround, nationally-representative surveys using mobile technology to gather, analyze, and disseminate family planning, water and sanitation and related health information at both household and facility levels. Surveys will be implemented in ten countries in Africa and Asia working through local university and research organizations with the aim of building local capacity. It is be implemented by a cadre of resident enumerators who will conduct interviews on, at minimum, an annual basis. PMA2020 employs technological innovation at every stage of survey implementation from data collection to aggregation, analysis, and dissemination, tapping the capacity of smart phones and other mobile devices. The project is implemented by the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with national partners in ten countries in Africa and Asia.