Opportunities and Challenges¶

Opportunities¶

1. Planning and organising the BNA implementation will ensure by-in from Ministry of Health for usability and sustainability of the bottleneck application.
2. Development and implementation of bna will trigger national interest, leading to greater use of DHIS2 at district and national levels
3. Bottleneck and causal analysis are useful for evidence based planning and can be used as a tools for resource mobilization.

4. Aligning health program interventions to the already existing national planning cycles and systems during the planning process. This will

   1. Foster Government buy in
   2. Build local ownership
   3. Lower costs of implementation.

Challenges¶

1. Scheduling BNA activities within the national calendar will sometimes become challenging causing delays in reaching consensus.
2. Infrastructure requirements such as internet in some districts may delay the implementation.