WCCC’s Communication and Research Advocate, Tupou Mahe Lanumata attended a six days Data Collection and Management training in Tonga Family Health Association Training Centre from the 12th to the 19th of June.
Organized by the Ministry of Health, the training included 22 participants from Government Ministries and Non-Government Organizations. “I would like to thank the Ministry of Health for this opportunity. I learnt a lot and found it very useful and relevant to the work that I do, especially on data collection and data management.
The six days training was facilitated by the Chief Information Officer on Tonga Health Information System of the Ministry of Health, Sione Hufanga and Sione Lolohea from the Department of Statistics.
“Data and information is a serious business and it requires long sustainable commitment, and by good data and information plays a clear role because data alone is not very interesting, it is the information that comes out of data is important. Absent of good information is like taking off light and lives by the rules of darkness”, said Hufanga.
“With the knowledge and skills gained from this workshop, I will be able to know what data to collect, how to collect, when to collect, why I collect it and if it useful to use then who to share with it”, said Lanumata.
