DSS sites generate longitudinal data by nature.  To continue to exist, it is essential that they diversify their funding sources. To do this, they need to attract funding outside their traditional core or initial donors. They may need to modify their products to appeal to, and attract new donors. They may have to disseminate their findings outside of their traditional audience.

New donors and funding agencies, created with specific objectives that DSSs can contribute to, like the Ellison Institute and the Health Metrics Network can be approached.

They may have to showcase the positive aspects of DSS data, being used to influence policy as they show changes over time, to attract funding and support from their local Ministries of Health.

Sites should identify calls for new projects that DSS could contribute to as against their traditional role of providing data for specific projects only.  For example, data to support achievements under the Millennium Development Goals is an area that DSS sites can easily contribute.

DSS sites could diversify their funding sources by showcasing the data analysis opportunities existing in their sites. This could place them in positions to provide specialized training to University students and thus attract funding from institutions of higher learning.

The extensive data available at DSS sites could also be placed at the disposal of various institutions, who may be willing to pay for such data to enable them re- examine previous findings, or  re-analyze them with different objectives in mind.