Credits & Acknowledgements
Sections 1, 2 and 3 of this web based Resource Kit were developed at an INDEPTH Network Workshop held in Accra February 16- 20, 2004.  DSS sites and practitioners contributing to these sections were:
  • Iganga/Mayuge DSS (Uganda) (Edward Galiwango)
  • Kanchanaburi DSS, Thailand (Sureeporn Punpuing, Jongjit Rittirong)
  • Nairobi DSS, Kenya (Anastasia Wahome)
  • Navrongo DSS, Ghana (Ayaga Bawah, Everest Dery)
  • Nouna DSS, Burkina Faso (Gbangou Adjima)
  • Rufiji & Ifakara DSS, Tanzania (Honorati Masanja)
  • INDEPTH Network Secretariat, Ghana (Osman Sankoh, Kwabena Boateng)
  • INDEPTH Network Board of Trustees, Tanzania (Don de Savigny)

Sections 4, 5 and 6 of this Resource Kit were developed at an INDEPTH Network Workshop held in Ho, Ghana, December 6- 9, 2005.  DSS sites and practitioners contributing to these sections include:
  • Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies DSS, South Africa (Tinofa Mutevedzi)
  • Dodowa DSS, Ghana (Margaret Gyapong, Alfred Manyeh)
  • Kintampo DSS, Ghana (Charles Zandoh)
  • Matlab DSS, ICDDR Bangladesh (Syed M. Shalauddin)
  • Nairobi DSS, Kenya (Zewdu Woubalem)
  • Navrongo DSS, Ghana (George Wak, Phillip Adongo)
  • Rakai DSS, Uganda (Tom Lutalo)
  • Rufiji DSS, Tanzania (Eleuther Mwageni)
  • INDEPTH Network Secretariat, Ghana (Fred Binka, Osman Sankoh, Titus Tei, Sixtus Apaliyah)
  • INDEPTH Network Board of Trustees, Switzerland (Don de Savigny)

INDEPTH extends its appreciation to all other sites who contributed best practices to this resource kit, and to a large number of proof readers and peer reviewers who have assisted in editing this beta version.
INDEPTH is especially grateful to Pat Naidoo of the Rockefeller Foundation for encouraging this development and to the Rockefeller Foundation for financial support.