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A sick woman is hand-carried from her village for three days to receive medical assistance in Northwestern Frontier Province of Pakistan. During its assessment on basic health facilities, IASCI discovered that, contrary to the ‘official records’ on which interventions were based, many health units recorded as functional were not operating, sometimes already for years. This is a classic example of “round-tripping” of the same errors in fact.

Field-based Information Management

  • Designing, operating, and where necessary handing-over, purpose-specific information management systems

IASCI builds and operates information management systems capable of responding to information requirements as they occur.

Responding to specific information requests, our systems obtain relevant data/information from primary sources. The data is delivered in formats that decision-makers trust, can quickly validate, and therefore actually use.

Our systematic methodologies have a proven history of enabling decision-makers to confidently carry out evidence-based critical decisions in a markedly more confident and efficient basis.

12 years of practical experience in a wide variety of challenging field operations has shown that inter-agency IM systems offer practical partnership opportunities in areas such as emergency response, humanitarian intervention and migration management.

Key benefits include:

  • direct access to trusted case-specific field-based data/information

  • quantifiably improved administrative and decision-making processes

  • significant cost-control and efficiency gains