Designing Integrated Information Systems for Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Programs in Bangladesh : A Model Plan

The proposed National Health and Population Information Center (NHPIC) may work as a sketch for establishing a need based system that will ensure free flow of information from the policy level to the extreme end of implementation of HNPSP. During design of the system due attention has been paid to the socio-economic, technical, financial, infrastructural, policy and administrative issues of the country. Thus, the system is expected to be realistic in information system for the HNPSP in Bangladesh. Every plan has a ‘movable horizon’, i.e. it is never definitive but can and should be improved in the light of experience, and will inevitably have to be adapted to the changing situation. It is important, therefore, that the plan should include the provision for evaluation and amendment as and when necessary.