This community innovation has been accepted at the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference and will be included a session.
DHIS2 for Multi-Country Learning and Impact
The Africa Health Collaborative (AHC), implemented by Amref Health Africa, is a multi-country programme designed to create employment opportunities for the youth, through health workforce development, entrepreneurship, and ecosystem strengthening. Managing such a complex, multi-pillar programme across diverse country contexts requires data systems that move beyond compliance-focused reporting to actively support learning, adaptation, and accountability. This presentation examines how DHIS2 has been applied within AHC to translate programme data into evidence-informed decision-making at both country and regional levels. Within AHC, DHIS2 was configured as a unified programme management platform integrating routine monitoring, event-based tracking, and learning indicators across three interconnected programme pillars—Health Employment, Health Entrepreneurship, and Health Ecosystem. Role-based dashboards provide real-time visibility into participant enrolment, training completion, employment outcomes, and enterprise performance. These dashboards enable programme teams to analyse trends over time, assess scale, and identify cross-country variation in implementation and results. Beyond performance tracking, DHIS2 was intentionally embedded within AHC’s learning cycles to support adaptive management. Pause-and-reflect processes, equity-focused disaggregations, and programme learning questions were aligned to DHIS2 indicators and dashboards. The resulting visualisations support structured reflection, highlight performance gaps and emerging patterns, and inform timely programme adjustments at both country and regional levels. The use of DHIS2 has also strengthened accountability by linking routinely collected data directly to decision-making and reporting processes. Programme teams use dashboards to track progress against targets, support transparent reporting to stakeholders and funders, and demonstrate positive programme impacts across workforce development and youth employment pathways.
Primary Author: Alexia Mshambala
Keywords:
DHIS2, Learning, Adaptive Management, Data use for decision making, Youth employment, Health workforce development