| Information categories | Data to gather | Using the Information | Making decisions |
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| Work plan implementation | Timing of activities.Availability of personnel and material resources. | Managers can ensure that staff and other resources are available for planned activities. | Re-scheduling activities and re-deployment of staff and resources as needed. |
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| Costs and expenditures | Budgeted amounts, obligations, accruals and balances for personnel, contraceptives, supplies, equipment, infrastructure, maintenance. | Managers can ensure that funds are available to execute planned program activities and can determine what services cost and how to price them. | Authorizing expenditures.Budget and program revisions.Community participation in, versus government subsidies of, program costs. |
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| Staffing and supervision | Knowledge, attitudes, and skills of staff.Educational level of staff.Salaries, benefits.On-the-job performance. | Managers can motivate staff, help solve their job-related problems, and advise them on career advancement. | Placement, additional training, promotion, disciplinary action. |
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| Commodities | Inventories, ordering and shipment status, transport and vehicle conditions. | Managers can ensure that contraceptive supplies regularly reach distribution points in appropriate quantities and usable condition. | Quantities to order.Dates on which to order.Amount of reserves to maintain for emergency use. |
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