This community innovation has been accepted at the 2025 DHIS2 Annual Conference
Empowering Health Impact Through DHIS2 Insights
UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, operates in Afghanistan with the mission to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s focus areas in Afghanistan include: a) reducing preventable maternal mortality through improved reproductive health; b) promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls to make informed decisions; c) empowering adolescents and youth, particularly girls, to access sexual and reproductive health services and education; and d) providing lifesaving reproductive health services, commodities, and psychosocial support, especially in humanitarian settings. To enhance evidence-based programming, accountability, and monitoring and evaluation, UNFPA Afghanistan implemented DHIS2 at the national level. By the end of 2022, UNFPA provided services in 31 provinces, 187 districts, and 597 facilities, reaching 4.22 million beneficiaries, of which 3.44 million were female. DHIS2 improved evidence-based programming, enabling expanded outreach, particularly targeting women and children in rural areas through FHHs and MHTs. This expanded coverage, enhanced target setting, and strengthened service delivery. By December 2024, UNFPA extended services to all 34 provinces and 305 districts, a 39% increase compared to 2022. Supported facilities rose to 998 (a 40% increase), and beneficiaries reached 12.4 million, a 66% rise, including 9.7 million women (65% increase). Additionally, 894,309 internally displaced people and 445,504 returnees were supported, representing 74% and 88% increases, respectively, compared to 2022. In conclusion, DHIS2 significantly enhanced UNFPA’s monitoring capacity, improving coverage, target setting, data quality, facility-level services, data accessibility, accountability to donors, and M&E activities in Afghanistan.
Primary Author: Sherzada Zadran
Keywords:
DHIS2, UNFPA Afghanistan, reproductive health, evidence-based programming, data quality, accountability, donor support, monitoring and evaluation, service delivery, humanitarian response, Family Health House (FHH), Mobile Health Team (MHT), aggregated data, capacity building, implementing partners, indicators, dashboards, data validation, vulnerable populations, women and children, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, health systems strengthening, Afghanistan health services, equitable resource allocation.
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