Hello DHIS2 Community! 
The copmonthly is the monthly highlight of the helpful and active community members as well as an overview of what’s been steering member’s interests; additionally, in this post, you will find an extensive list of productive things to do in May 2026. Thank you for being an amazing community! 
In this CoPMonthly, May 2026, here’s what we will talk about:
- DAC2026 Community Innovations
- Things to do for a productive May 2026
Top Topics: Most popular topics from February 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.
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Daily community innovations topics accepted for the DHIS2 Annual Conference 2026 are being posted! Get quick descriptions of these topics in the weekly roundups: roundup 1 - roundup 2 - roundup 3 - or view all DAC2026 topics here.
Things to do for a productive May 2026:
Click here to view the list of productive things to do in May 2026
- Join the DHIS2 Core Team in testing and providing insights:
- Meetups:
- Webinars: Join the upcoming webinars (or watch the recordings)!
- Learning:
- Recordings Available from the DHIS2 Workshop on Spatiotemporal Modelling of Climate-sensitive Disease
- Follow the DHIS2 Metadata Series video-tutorial\s by community member @Mayamiko (Understanding Data Elements in DHIS2 | DHIS2 Metadata Series - Importing Organisation Units Using CSV (Step-by-Step) | DHIS2 Metadata Series - Understanding Aggregate Data in DHIS2 and When to Use It)
- Check out the new tutorials from the Online Data Quality Academy on DHIS2 Validation Rules!
- Join @SherpaY and @Norah_Stoops in this community discussion: What are the barriers to using DHIS2 data for decision-making?
- Readings:
- Check out the round ups of 31 DAC2026 Innovations: Search results for 'roundups tags:dac2026 after:2026-04-01 in:first order:latest_topic' - DHIS2 Community
- Check out the first digital and video poster from DAC2026 by @St_lawrence: Strengthening Community Health Data with DHIS2: A Malaria Pilot in Edo State, Nigeria
- Big DHIS2 Implementation story from China: CDHIS2 (China-Localized DHIS2 Project) by @linxd
- A nicely written Implementation story from Nepal: Beyond Program Monitoring: How Nepal Uses DHIS2 Tracker for Cost-Effective HIV Research by @sanu525 (nice graphics!)
- In this piece the pivot table speaks for itself, HISP-Nigeria's Nutrition Campaign
- Connect - Connectez-vous > Marketplace : It looks like this position is still open, Hiring - Health Data Systems Implementation Lead @ Bluesquare
- Connect - Connectez-vous > Le coin des francophones : ¿Hablas francés? Echa un vistazo a los temas con la etiqueta aitranslation_french
- DHIS2 Challenges, see section below!
Top Topics from April 2026:
Last month’s top topic of the month was the Technology Partner Spotlight Webinar Series! Additionally, both the DHIS2 2026 Annual Conference - Community Innovations post and the DHIS2 for Nutrition: Explore the new webpage! announcements seem to gather the community’s interest. 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.
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Helpful and Active Members:
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Thankful note to all helpful community members:
Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature finders
Bug hunters
Click to view April 2026 Helpful Community Members and the Top 10 Active Members Slideshow! 💌
Top 10 Active Members in April 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)
Thanks to all helpful members (April 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!
@lnunez | @EyeSeeTea | @linxd | @HanyAly | @Collin.Dosunmu | @Dradebo | @duserik | @Kris_Reinhardt | @Yomi_Olatunji | @JaimeLopez | @MichaelButtsworth | @Pradeep | @Tahir_Zaman | @Stephan_Mestach | @St_lawrence | @Shegaw | @Timothy_Harding1 | @Afonso_Lima | @Mayamiko | @Rodolfo_Melia2 | @AllanLusui | @gregory | @Williams_Agir | @elmoujarrade | @m.siusko | @sanu525 | @MiquelAdell | @Mbevi | @pma | @Norah_Stoops
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.
@prosperino.mbalame |
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. 
DHIS2-Challenges:
Last month’s challenge first person to select the correct answer was: @HanyAly
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 focused on use cases so as an extension to that, let’s explore our knowledge in the DHIS2 Digital Data Packages, “(also known as metadata packages), which are pre-configured sets of metadata, data collection tools, and analysis outputs designed to streamline the implementation of specific health programs [use cases].”
- A. Promote the uptake and use of standards
- B. Simplify the type of support required for implementation
- C. Demonstrate how multiple programs can integrate their data into a single platform
- D. Eliminate the need for any customization or adaptation to local contexts
[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]
HINT: This question is from the Tracker Use Cases module, [Introduction to DHIS2 Digital Data Packages] within the Event Data Capture and Analysis Fundamentals digital self-paced course, https://academy.dhis2.org/courses/course-v1:hisp+GEN-D006+2024_Q4/about
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