Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 5004
Country/Region: Zambia
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Central Statistical Office - Zambia
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Host Country Government Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $400,000

Funding for Strategic Information (HVSI): $400,000

This activity relates to: Ministry of Health (MOH) (#9008), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (#9023).

The fiscal year (FY) 2007 plan aims to build-up and sustain the Central Statistics Office (CSO) office and expertise for vital registration in Zambia. An important FY 2007 activity is the continuation and expansion of the Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY) System in selected regions in Zambia. This FY 2007 activity builds upon the Feasibility Study conducted in FY 2006 by the CSO in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global AIDS Program (GAP) Zambia, the US Census Bureau, and Measure Evaluation. In FY 2007 the CSO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH), will expand its surveillance of vital events in Zambia by adding coverage areas beyond the two FY 2006 pilot sites. This vital registration system builds upon current CSO expertise in demographic surveillance to estimate the number and causes of death. In addition to establishing the infrastructure to obtain mortality data alongside census data in a target sample, this effort will train 80 CSO staff, interviewers, census enumerators, community workers, and supervisors in SI. Beyond training of individuals in SAVVY methods, this activity will yield information on the number of deaths ascertained by the community informants, number and quality of verbal autopsy forms completed by interviewers, the number and quality of verbal autopsy forms coded with cause of death. The estimate of duration of time from death to notification and completion of verbal autopsy and time to cause of death coding are also captured. An estimate of mortality rate observed in the SAVVY areas and communities will also be calculated.