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Table 3 – Barriers in the journey of the dataset on those resources. The following subsections discuss
stunting the additional insights added to the existing
understanding of the three key aspects for an
Jour- Barrier Cause of barrier effective public-sector data governance in light of
ney
leg this study.
num- 7.1 People
ber
For the success of a data governance program and
1’ Issues in - Limited capacity among Po-
monthly data syandu cadres in producing cor- to provide for strategic deployment of resources, it
collection rect measurements according to is essential for the organization’s leadership to be
among Po- health standards. inspired, committed, and visionary. These leaders
syandu ca- - The loss of data from toddlers must not only understand the vision but be able to
dres who are not consistently coming communicate the vision throughout the
to Posyandu organization and motivate the stakeholders and

1’ Time ineffi- One officer at Puskesmas must do data stewards for effective data governance. Hence,
ciency in data data entry in several formats; in- there is the need to build data governance
entry cluding a physical register for capacities in local government (both elected and
Puskesmas use, PosyanduQu elec- career civil servants) so that they do not only own
tronic spreadsheet, nutritional the process of data management but will also act as
book, and electronic form for the
municipal health department champions in the implementation of the policy.

1’ Officers juggl- The absence of incentive to re- This research shows that while a strong
ing between ward officers carrying out the commitment from local leadership is key, proactive
main service ‘additional task’ of data manage- engagement from national government agencies
tasks and ment also reinforces local commitment. The commitment
data manage-
ment from the city mayor and relevant departments in
implementing various data management initiatives
2’ Difficulty in Two different data methods, over the last two years was made possible through
reconciling sampling and direct measure- constant dialogue between city government
findings from ment, produce different under- officials and central government representatives.
two different standings of an area’s condition
data sources 7.2 Standards

2 Confusion The current data flows require Similarly, the existence of a government-wide data
about data the municipal health department standard is needed to create a uniform
flow to process both data from the
lower level (Puskesmas) and up- transactional and analytical environment for
per level (provincial health de- compliance monitoring, preventing each
partment) government entity from working in silo, developing
different data standards. Data standards enable
4 The confusion The presence of different for- automation of data quality control processes with
created by mats in filling in the nutritional
the changing report, including the newly in- metadata-driven enhancement and best practices
of report for- troduced e-PPGBM (Community- for improving data quality.
mats based Registration of Nutritional
Data), which requires in-depth This study shows that the new policy needs to
information of each person rec- establish government-wide policies for data
orded.
gathering, cleaning, and storing including by the
non-government data producers such as private
7. DISCUSSION clinics and hospitals. These policies also need to
address the mechanism of data sharing including
Good data governance policies and procedures are data interoperability among different levels or units
invaluable in the management of data and of a single governmental agency or inter-
information in organizations. They are necessary to government. Also, the One Data policy needs to
encourage the efficient use of human, financial and address the mechanism to avoid data duplication
technical resources and accountability for the use of within a single governmental agency. With the

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