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Attendees:
Manish Kumar (MEASURE Evaluation)
Agnaldo GUAMBE (CDC-Moz)
Dana Juthe (OGAC CIT - PwC)
Angad Dhindsa (MEASURE Evaluation)
Christina Villella (MEASURE Evaluation)
Jason Pickering (DATIM Development Team)
Agenda/Notes:
- Sourcing requirements from the business community and starting development for Q1.
- Planning to go into User Acceptance Testing in October, will be doing development of indicators until that point.
- Should be able to share some draft indicator lists in this call to help prepare. The final indicator list should not be expected till the end of October, not until it has passed User Acceptance Tests.
- How to submit data import files:
- Require a single data import file per OU
- Current validations are designed based on the regular workflows involving consolidated files. The validations get complicated when there are multiple partners sending data per OU.
- If you are reciving data in multiple formats from your partners, please consolidate them into one file to share with the helpdesk.
- Benefits of user preparedness
- Have seen some users who were planning on doing data import for Q3 but had started working with the helpdesk around january/february. Due to their early preparation, they were able to have their data import file ready a week after the close of the quarter.
- Next MER Data Import call is on the 10th of August.
- When discussing import for DATIM, we are always using calendar quarters. For the PEPFAR Calendar, we are working on Q3 but for data import it is 2016Q2 (April - June)
- Import deadlines are before the period closes as it allows for users to have time to do de-dupe.
- De-dupe should never be done outside of DATIM as the program does it in a very specific way.