From more than 6 African countries and one country in the Middle East (Lebanon), in our fourth roundup of DAC2025 Community Innovations, we are honored to showcase groundbreaking projects in Health, Education, Agriculture, and Finance. These innovations addressed health challenges, illustrated DHIS2 adaptability and possible integrations, DHIS2’s role in empowering communities, strengthening information systems, and more. These projects have been accepted for presentation at the 2025 DHIS2 Annual Conference.
Every week we will be sharing a weekly roundup of DAC2025 innovations that were posted to the DHIS2 Community of Practice to help you learn more about these exciting DHIS2 projects. You can also see the new innovations as soon as they are posted, or browse them all, using the dac2025 tag.
DHIS2 Community Innovations - May 02, 2025:
How can DHIS2 be used by local and independent communities to secure savings?
Learn how DHIS2 helped a village manage their VSLA (Village Savings and Loan Association - community-led financial initiatives), click here
How can this scalable EMIS model help other regions?
Nigeria’s Edo State implemented an EMIS DHIS2 implementation to replace paper-based reporting and now has a model that can be used by other regions, learn more about EdoEMIS, click here
Have you ever seen a Geospatial Agriculture DHIS2 Dashboard?
Edo State has integrated geospatial agriculture analysis tools with DHIS2 thus creating a Dashboard that helps communities at risk. Learn more about this implementation, click here
Can Machine Learning Turn DHIS2 into a Time Travel Machine?
Explore how Edo State combined ML tools with DHIS2 for predictive analysis which has enabled stakeholders to “visually and quantitatively discuss future uncertainties”, click here
What can we learn from a seven year DHIS2 Tracker Implementation?
Uganda implemented a DHIS2 HIV Prevention Tracker since 2017, and now has insights to share, click here
How is the Neotree app using the DHIS2 API?
Integrating between apps and DHIS2 provides solutions and improves reporting, learn more from Malawi’s implementation click here
How can one DHIS2 Implementation Empower Health Workers in 6 African Countries?
LifeNet International integrated between its learning platforms and DHIS2 to support health workers training in six african countries, click here
Why do EMIS implementations require more than data collection?
Even though Schools in West Nile, Uganda were using apps for data collection, the need for DHIS2 became inevitable, learn more about this EMIS implementation and how it improved school’s real-time reporting, click here
How can DHIS2 community-based surveillance help detect and respond to public health threats?
In this implementation of CBS and DHIS2, Lebanon was able to detect confirmed cases, explore the immediate benefits of the implementation, click here
Have you tried integrating your survey collection tool with DHIS2?
SolidLines shares details, benefits and reasons for “[extracting data] from Kobo, transformation into the DHIS2 data format, and loading into the DHIS2 instance”. Check out their innovation, click here
District = Woreda, learn how Ethiopia’s implementing DHIS2?
Complex indicators “tailored at the facility level and aggregated for the above hierarchies” are part of the DHIS2 configuration in Ethiopia’s Woreda Transformation initiative. To learn more, click here
How can we “assess the impact of DHIS2 on reporting accuracy, data visualization, and decision-making in community HIV interventions”?
Zimbabwe’s implemented DHIS2 in their HIV prevention program and has seen improved aspects, learn about this implementation and the results, click here
Would you like to use DHIS2 in your human rights projects?
Learn from the Center for Health Collaboration’s implementation in Mozambique which uses DHIS2 “to address barriers and human rights violations that hinder access to healthcare for people living with HIV and TB”, click here
How does DHIS2 improve child health tracking in the Maldives?
Learn about Maldives efforts to enhance its child health program using DHIS2 and the nationwide roll out, click here
What do you know about the customizable DHIS2 Big Catch-up aggregate module?
DHIS2 is being used by the global Immunization Big Catch-up (BCU) initiative. Learn about the efforts and experience BCU is having with DHIS2, click here
Thank you for exploring this week’s DHIS2 dac2025 Community Innovations!
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To continue learning more about these DHIS2 projects and tools, register to join us at the 2025 DHIS2 Annual Conference, where each of these innovations will be presented live!