Health Cluster 3/4W Tool

Overview

This document is intended to inform Health Cluster Coordinators (HCC), Health Information Managers, Senior Managers, and other interested professionals on the purpose of response monitoring, with a specific focus on the use of 3/4/5W matrix tools (as part of the Public Health Information Services - PHIS) to report on health related activities and operational presence. The 3/4/5W Tool is one of the PHIS tools used for measuring and monitoring Health Resources and Services Availability, namely providing information on preventive and curative health services, infrastructure, personnel and supplies provided by health authorities or other actors, as well as the degree of access that affected populations actually have to those services.