The Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children through National Tuberculosis and Leprosy program (NTLP) is implementing the fifth TB and Leprosy Strategic plan. One of the main strategy is strengthening of the program’s monitoring and evaluation system. To achieve this a more detailed electronic recording and reporting system has been developed in order to track program’s performance. This system has being developed by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DoCSE) of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) and has successful been piloted in 20 Councils in 5 regions of Mbeya, Kilimanjaro, Pwani DSM and Dodoma. The pilot was conducted in the period of January-June 2017.

Currently the Program is in the process of rolling out of the use of the system in all regions. In this process the first step is training of the regional and district TB and Leprosy coordinators. This will be followed by training of other Councils coordinators: TBHO, MTUHA focal person and others who are expected to be the user of the system