☀️ April 2026 #CoPMonthly: Keeping 13K+ Members in The Loop!

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

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Hello DHIS2 Community!

In this monthly post the aim is to highlight your contributions and keep all 13k+ members in the loop. Thank you all for your active and helpful contributions!

Things to do in April 2026:

• DHIS2 Awards: Nominate helpful community members: Announcing the 2026 DHIS2 Awards!
• Beta Testing Campaign: submit your tickets as early as possible so they could be considered in the next release, click here
• Need Custom DHIS2 Apps or Extensions? Reply to this post with the app ideas that you need (or submit an app): The 2026 DHIS2 App Competition is now open for submissions!
• Webinars: attend this upcoming webinar: Upcoming Webinar: Deep dive on Maps Functionality Illustrative Use Case - Epidemiological Surveillance Features, or watch webinar recordings
• Meetups:
  • Join the monthly Developer Meetup
  • Join the weekly Server Admin Meetups
• CoP Custom Status: You can now add a custom ‘status’ (with an emoji) to your profile, click here – See how my status looks like by highlighting my tag with your cursor: @gassim
• DHIS2 Challenges, see section below!

In this CoPMonthly, April 2026, here’s what we will talk about:

*Top Topics: Most popular topics from March 2026

• Top Active Members: Recognition of the top ten active members of the month
• The Heart of the Community: A thankful note to our Good Samaritans, Feature Finders, and Bug Hunters.
• cop Monthly Challenge: A monthly quiz to refresh your DHIS2 knowledge.
• copmonthly Map

Top Topics from March 2026:

• How versed are you with Program Indicators? This support post ‘Program indicators using incident date’ from @Kris_Reinhardt has received many views with insights from core team expert @brian: Program indicators using incident date

• We have the ‘Metadata Series’ topics that the active and helpful community member @mayamiko is doing: Stop Creating Option Sets One by One | DHIS2 Metadata Series , The Smart Way to Set Up DHIS2 Categories | DHIS2 Metadata Series

• From the Development - Développement section these three top topics: Community contributions to core DHIS2 apps , DHIS2 audit tool , and Training App 1.7.0: Enhanced react integration and granular access control

• Twenty four community members received the Insight Contributor Badge because of NEW! DHIS2 Feature Check-In - #3

Are there topics from March 2026 that you found interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why you found it interesting or important.

Top 10 Active Members in March 2026

_{You can click on the ‘stats’ to view the public profile info.}

(Tagging here all the top ten active users in March 2026 so they receive a notification - @HanyAly, @Mayamiko, @Kenyuri, @Kris_Reinhardt, @m.siusko, @malekpour, @nnkogift, @gregory, @MinmiShin, @ctejo)

• Thankful note to all helpful community members:
  • Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
  • Feature finders
  • Bug hunters

View the Helpful Community Members

Thanks to all helpful members (March 2026),

Good Samaritans (voluntarily helping other community members)

Without Good Samaritans, there’s no community! We are very thankful to all users for contributing to the CoP especially when helping other users. Samaritans, thank you for making others feel at home!
@Stephan_Mestach | @nnkogift | @gregory | @sgaudon | @Norah_Stoops | @kateshih | @paleu256 | @Matthew_Boddie | @Collin.Dosunmu | @Elmarie_Claasen | @SAVADOGO | @HanyAly | @Kenyuri | @Thomas_Warichet | @Baba_Yahaya_Mohamme1 | @fidelelukeka | @Mbevi | @Mayamiko | @mahima | @ezbarretos | @eyeseetea | @m-thelly | @Francis_Okongo | @Tahir_Zaman |

Bug Hunters

Many users who faced issues and discussed them with the community were very helpful in finding bugs. These bug hunters create Jira issues (with link to the CoP post) and support the development of DHIS2.
@msilva | @m.siusko | @Mohammed1 | @dkusiima | @Collin.Dosunmu

Feature Finders

We do tag feature finders in every copmonthly so if you have features that you’d like to share and discuss with the community feel free to make a post, and follow the instructions to add ideas into the software roadmap process.
@malekpour | @Kris_Reinhardt |

DHIS2-Challenges:

Last month’s challenge first person to select the correct answer was: @Kris_Reinhardt Congratulations! To check out last month’s challenge click here All who participated will receive the CoP Activity Winner badge.

The challenge for this month (April 2026):

In our previous challenges, we talked about use-cases but as we all know that certain use cases require security and risk management. Here’s a security question for all your use-cases!

Which of the following are key security activities to consider when implementing DHIS2?

• Establish a change management procedure
• Develop an incident response plan
• Define authentication methods
• Create an access control policy
• Configure periodic backups
• Establish regular auditing activities

[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]

HINT: This question is from the Implementation considerations for DHIS2 systems module, [Security and Risk Management] within the Planning and Budgeting DHIS2 Implementations digital self-paced course, https://academy.dhis2.org/courses/course-v1:hisp+GEN-D202-en+2022_Q4/about

copmonthly map

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[Mayamiko (Mayamiko Z Mendamenda)]

Honored to be mentioned with others who contributed in the previous month. What a great first quarter of the year. Looking forward to next month and the next 12 weeks.