The project intends to expand the evidence-base on new interventions, the capacity within Tanzania to understand how complex health programmes are best implemented, to evaluate the health system's performance and to synthesize data collected needs to be improved. To better assure the translation of research into policy, more public health leaders with sufficient skills to use data are required. The project intends to develop and implement a strategic approach to capacity building by further developing IHI into a centre of excellence that not only implements different types of health and health systems research, but also assures that results of research is disseminated and used by policy makers, planner, managers and civil society groups.
The projects objectives are:-
1. To strengthen human and institutional capacity of IHI and partners to develop research relevant to Tanzania's health problems.
2. To establish a skills centre capable of synthesizing health informaion from various sources, with the aim of increasing understanding of complex health and health system problems and enlarging in-country capacity for evaluation of national and regional health programmes.
3. To support evidence-based policy formulation and programme implementation, through reinforced research dissemination by scientists and media and improved capacity for data use among health policy makers and managers.
4. To reinforce organisational and institutional development.
