DAC2026 Community Innovations: Weekly Roundup 1
Welcome to the first Weekly Roundup of The DAC2026 Community Innovations.These roundups help you keep track of all the DHIS2 community innovations that have been accepted for the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference.
This week, the topics range from Climate & Health to patient-level tracking. We explore DHIS2 implementations and innovations from Kenya, The Gambia, Indonesia (Jakarta), Malawi, Sudan, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Rwanda, South Sudan, Syria (SARC) and Norway (NoRC), Tanzania, Nigeria, DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), Sub-Saharan Africa and more.
Click here to view Climate & Health topics
Climate & Health
These innovations show how important environmental data is in relation to health data and how they used DHIS2 to solve these challenges. Before diseases spread due to environmental reasons, outbreaks need to be predicted and that is possible by utilizing both health and climate information together.
- The Gambia: AI fusion of DHIS2 and climate data for malaria GM: Learn how integrating DHIS2 malaria data with climatic indicators using AI helps in predicting malaria outbreaks and identification of high-risk zones. Physical Poster, click here to the view topic.
- Jakarta, Indonesia: Air Quality and ARI Data Integration in DHIS2: Jakarta is aligning air quality indicators with routine Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) surveillance to support whole-of-government collaboration.Included in C&H Academy, click here to the view topic.
- Madagascar (FR): Analyse multisectorielle climat–santé sous DHIS2: Adopting a “One Health” approach in the Vakinankaratra region, this project links extreme weather fluctuations with maternal and child health indicators like prenatal care and infant morbidity (topic post is in French). Digital Poster
- Ethiopia: DHIS2 Integration for Climate-Resilient Health: Establishing interoperability between DHIS2 and environmental monitoring systems to strengthen immunization programs and emergency response initiatives. Digital Poster, click here to the view topic.
Click here to view community Health and Patient-Level Tracking topics
Explore how data is captured, hospital bedsides to remote household visits, in these tracker innovations that enable real-time decision support and better outcomes for individual patients.
- Kenya: A DHIS2 Tracker for Neonatal Inpatient Care in Kenya Hospitals: Digitizing national neonatal inpatient form to improve data capture, clinical audits, and routine reporting. Read how a newborn’s journey through intensive care can be guided by real-time data. Digital Poster, click here to the view topic.
- South Sudan: Improving BHI Care Delivery via DHIS2: Learn about the observed improvements in reporting completeness and data reliability with South Sudan’s Boma Health Initiative use of DHIS2 Tracker offline-first Android tools. Track/lightning talk, click here to the view topic.
- Nigeria: Strengthening Community Health Data with DHIS2: A Malaria Pilot in Edo State: Using Tracker module to monitor individual malaria testing and treatment outcomes across 45,000 targeted individuals. Digital Poster, click here to the view topic.
- DRC: Surveillance MPOX intégrée à DHIS2 au Sud-Kivu: Using the API to fetch data directly into DHIS2 thus reducing case notification time from 3–5 days to under 24 hours. Digital poster, click here to the view topic.
- Syria: Leveraging DHIS2 Tracker for Primary Care (SARC/NoRC): Learn about the experience from Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the Norwegian Red Cross (NoRC) in using DHIS2 as a lightweight Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Included in a session, click here to view the topic.
Click here to view Data Governance, Interoperability, and Quality topics
Learn about the tech that enables data to be scaled, monitored, and trusted at the national level.
- Tanzania: Proxy Facility Dashboard: The use of AP In DHIS2: Learn how the Analytics Platform (AP) and a WhatsApp tool called “Analytics Messenger” delivers 24-hour PDF snapshots of national health status to the Minister and top leadership. In this innovation, the tech combines instant data aggregation with a mobile messaging app to ensure the Minister of Health is never more than a day away from the reality of hospital performance. Included in a session, click here to the view topic.
- EyeSeeTea: Metadata as Code: Versioning DHIS2 Configurations: In this innovation, we learn about an approach that treats the DHIS2 metadata that we all know as code using the well known software engineering principles. Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to the view topic.
- BAO Systems and HISP Tanzania (seven sub-Saharan African countries): Connected Diagnostics: Achieve Health Equity: Linking 3,000 HIV diagnostic devices across seven sub-Saharan African countries to national systems.Included in a session, click here to the view topic.
- Ethiopia: Making Health Data Governance Measurable: Ethiopia has digitized its “Information Revolution” (IR) regulatory framework within DHIS2, creating checklists for four tiers: health posts, health centers, hospitals, and woreda health offices. Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
- EyeSeeTea: Data Quality Extended, a new generic app: An open-source generic application designed to simplify and standardize data validation process across any DHIS2 implementation. Digital Poster, click here to the view topic.
Click here to view Resilience, Gap Analysis, and Regional Scaling topics
Evidence-based assessments of health systems, identifying data gap analyses, and working towards more durable health systems.
- HISP Rwanda’s Contribution to Global Health Inform: A decade of lessons from 12 DHIS2 solution areas across 11 nations to guide regional scaling and government ownership. Physical Poster, click here to the view topic.
- Malawi: Closing DHIS2 Oncology Data Void: Learn how important it is to have data-driven assessments of surveillance systems, identifying gap analysis, and Malawi’s plan to move “toward a more resilient, data driven cancer surveillance model that supports early detection, better patient management and evidence based planning.” Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to the view topic.
- Sudan: Conflict impact on malaria indicators: Missing data varied across Sudanese states and appeared to coincide with differences in conflict intensity. Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA) helped with the assessment of how the conflict impacted and disrupted the health system. Physical poster, click here to the view topic.
Join the Discussion
We hope that this roundup gave you a quick overview and encouraged you to explore the full topic posts linked above to gain deeper insights into the gigantic collaborative effort and science that is poured into these community projects.
Join the conversation: We encourage you to click on the topics above that interest you, reply with your comments, and share your own experiences. Most importantly, remember to register for the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference to see these innovations presented in person. 
