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This study analyzes the gaps and weaknesses in information systems during the process of developing health systems profiles. It highlights that the process has often been treated as another report rather than an analytical tool. The study also reveals that the process and final document have been kept secret. While there is consensus that the development of health systems profiles could potentially influence governance, this has not been the case so far, except in Dominica. Additionally, the study suggests that policies focused on the poor, state modernization, and poverty alleviation reforms have not been driven by external forces but by deliberate policies tailored to country needs. Recommendations for maintaining the Human Development Index, specifying school drop-out rates, and seeking proxy indicators for child labor, prevalence of depression, and domestic violence are also provided.
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IMPACT ON GOVERNANCE • The process highlighted the gaps and weaknesses in information systems • In some countries it was approached as another “report” and not as an analytical tool • The process and the final document has been a “well kept secret” • Consensus is that the process of development of the Health Systems profile could potentially influence governance; however, that has not been the case to date, except in Dominica.
Policies focused on the poor • Consensus that State modernization and reforms implicitly would impact on the poor and vulnerable • Poverty alleviation reforms were not driven by external forces, but by deliberate policies formulated and enacted to respond to country needs.
Table # 9 • Maintain the HDI index • Specify School drop-out rate for primary and secondary education • Seek a proxy indicator for: • Child Labour • Prevalence of Depression • Difficulty in collecting information on Domestic Violence.
