اداره مرکزی احصائیه Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Central Statistics Organization Terms of Reference DHS Steering Committee The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the single largest source of nationally representative, comparable information for measuring women’s and children’s health and wellbeing in developing countries. Since 1984, the DHS has documented marked changes in areas vital to women, families, communities, and nations: education, fertility, access to and use of family planning, use of antenatal care, and skilled assistance during childbirth, child health, and nutrition. DHS results are widely used and widely cited by national leaders, Ministry of Health, international health agencies, nongovernmental organizations, funding agencies, researchers, and the Government to monitor, evaluate and plan health and population programs. With a DHS, Afghanistan will have similar high quality data on a wide range of health issues to guide national and sub national health programs for the next decade. To insure for properly conducting the DHS and provides the overall direction to Technical Advisory Committee and other Sub committees Steering Committee formed. – Duties and Responsibilities of steering committee Provides the overall direction on the survey design and implementation Approve assigned focal persons from ministries/ Organization to be member of the different committees and working groups Addresses issues raised by the technical committee Reviews and approves the timeline of the survey Reviews and approves the indicators to be included in the survey
اداره مرکزی احصائیه Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Central Statistics Organization Terms of Reference DHS Steering Committee The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the single largest source of nationally representative, comparable information for measuring women’s and children’s health and wellbeing in developing countries. Since 1984, the DHS has documented marked changes in areas vital to women, families, communities, and nations: education, fertility, access to and use of family planning, use of antenatal care, and skilled assistance during childbirth, child health, and nutrition. DHS results are widely used and widely cited by national leaders, Ministry of Health, international health agencies, nongovernmental organizations, funding agencies, researchers, and the Government to monitor, evaluate and plan health and population programs. With a DHS, Afghanistan will have similar high quality data on a wide range of health issues to guide national and sub national health programs for the next decade. To insure for properly conducting the DHS and provides the overall direction to Technical Advisory Committee and other Sub – committees Steering Committee formed. Duties and Responsibilities of steering committee Provides the overall direction on the survey design and implementation Approve assigned focal persons from ministries/ Organization to be member of the different committees and working groups Addresses issues raised by the technical committee Reviews and approves the timeline of the survey Reviews and approves the indicators to be included in the survey