HealthEnabled is engaged in a collaboration with Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance to strengthen and complement the work of Ministries of Health (MoH) alongside Gavi Core Data Partners to “ensure continuous data strengthening and sustainably improve coverage and equity (C&E)” by assessing the current use of digital health systems to support and exceed Gavi’s Data Strategy and M&E Plan Targets. Through this effort HealthEnabled has been commissioned to conduct an assessment of DHIS2 for immunisation modules. This assessment aims to assess and document DHIS2 immunisation experiences and lessons learned.

As part of this process, Ghana has been prioritised as a good country for the development of a country case study for DHIS2 for immunisation. During the “DHIS2 Experience sharing and Learning in the use of DHIS2 Immunisation App in the WHO African Region” workshop in Kigali, Rwanda in January 2020 - Ghana was identified as a country that had successfully managed the transition from DVDMT to DHIS2 providing a good learning opportunity for other countries that are struggling with this transition. Ghana had also successfully deployed and scaled the DHIS2 Immunisation tracker fully within four (4) regions and partially in three (3) regions in the country. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, HealthEnabled used a virtual approach to conduct the assessment in Ghana through desk review and key informant interviews with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) teams at the national, regional, district, sub district and health facility levels as well as partners, including Gavi, WHO, UiO and HISP that are supporting the implementation of DHIS2 across countries.

This DHIS2 country case study contributes to a broader effort aimed at strengthening and packaging DHIS2 for more effective adoption within national immunisation efforts across settings based on use cases and functionality.