🫶 September 2026 - #CoPMonthly: Community Members Helping the Community!

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Hello DHIS2 Community!

Thank you for the continuous community spirit! Some community members here in DHIS2 CoP have been around for years and some are new, yet the spirit is always the same: we’re always learning and growing together.

The copmonthly post is all about celebrating this community, sharing highlights and resources, and thanking the helpful and active members. Thank you for being an amazing community!

In this CoPMonthly, September 2026, here’s what we will talk about:

Things to do in September 2026
Top Topic: Most popular topic from August 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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Here are DHIS2 Community things to do in September 2026:

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• Ever thought about printing DHIS2 stickers for your team? Follow @ButwhyRex’s lead: Where can i get the dhis2 and hisp sticker soft file I want to print it for my team thanks specifically this one - #2 by maxk
• New Tutorials Added: New DHIS2 Tutorials: Data Quality - #4 by Simona
• DHIS2 Features:
  • Get the Insight Contributor badge and participate in this month’s feature-check-in : DHIS2 Feature Check-IN (Exploring Notifications for Android)
  • Were you one of the members interested in this feature? Analytics Relative periods for Week starting e.g. Sunday - #6 by Karoline - check out the update!
• Meetups:
  • Join the Developer Meetup: September 2026 Developer Meetup: App Competition Finalists: Part II & AI Forum Kick-Off
  • Join the weekly Server Admin Meetups
  • Meetup Recordings: EMIS meetup, LMIS & Supply Chain meetup
• Expert Discussions:
  • @Mayamiko continues the metadata-series with interesting discussion questions and polls, click here to check out the latest
  • Check out George (@Mr_jorge) topics & first of their kind “DHIS2 Comics”:
    • When One Space Breaks an Entire DHIS2 Workflow
    • When a “simple” DHIS2 form becomes a monthly data-quality headache 😅
• Climate:
  • Check out these two new updates: Introducing Open Climate Service: open, self-hosted climate and Earth observation data infrastructure - DHIS2 Climate & Health country profiles
  • Want to deploy a climate instance? Give this new repo a try: CHAP Modeling Sierra Leone Instance - #11 by jen.jones.arnesen
• Check out the DAC2026 conference resources and join the discussion, click here.
• DHIS2 Challenges, see section below!

Top Topic from August 2026:

The top topic from August 2026 included a fun comic, check it out:

When One Space Breaks an Entire DHIS2 Workflow

Ever had one of those DHIS2 implementation nightmares? I recently built a Vehicle & Logistics Event Program in DHIS2 with: • 272 Program Rules • 998 Program Rule Actions Everything was working until a colleague reported that they couldn’t submit a booking request. I logged into their account and tested with a dummy request—it worked perfectly. The usual troubleshooting followed: Cleared browser cache Tested again Still cou…

Are there topics from August 2026 that you find interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why it is interesting or important.

Top 10 Active Members in August 2026

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(Tagging here all the top ten active users in August 2026 so they receive a notification - @HanyAly @Mayamiko @malekpour @ButwhyRex @rehabm @Stephan_Mestach @m.siusko @Baba_Yahaya_Mohamme1 @nnkogift @linxd )

Thankful note to all helpful community members:
Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature finders
Bug hunters

Thank you! - Click here to see the helpful community members in August 2026

Thanks to all helpful members - August 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!
@HanyAly | @m.siusko | @smomoh | @lihefei | @malekpour | @jamiecarter7 | @Mayamiko | @Mr_jorge | @minogin | @ctejo | @Stephan_Mestach | @ACoetzer1988 | @e4eDHIS2 | @pma | @ButwhyRex | @Baba_Yahaya_Mohamme1 | @antonia |

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.
@arslan_mughal | @malekpour | @ctejo | @kateshih | @aalabdo | @KathyBuelens | @Stephan_Mestach

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.
@kateshih | @linxd |

DHIS2-Challenges:

Last month’s challenge first person to select the correct answer was: @rehabm 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 (September 2026):

Here’s a new type of question, it’s about health programs but quite intuitive as well. a simple question from the Planning and Budgeting DHIS2 Implementations course.

In what stages of the DHIS2 implementation lifecycle should the health program specialists be involved?

• Requirements gathering
• Configuration process
• Testing
• Creating training materials

[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]

HINT: This question is from the Working with DHIS2: Governance, capacity building and support module, within the Planning and Budgeting DHIS2 Implementations digital self-paced course, Planning and Budgeting DHIS2 Implementations | DHIS2 Online Academy

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[HanyAly]

Congrats @rehabm

[Baba_Yahaya_Mohamme1 (Baba Yahaya Mohammed)]

It is very heart warming to know that every time spent on this platform is been recognized.
Thank you

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Thank you @Baba_Yahaya_Mohamme1! Your sharing and participation makes the community whole. The CoP (community of practice) is an important aspect of the DHIS2 journey for so many..