Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) as part of its Data Strategic Focus Area (SFA) has engaged the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF along with a broad range of Alliance partners and donors to collaborate with the University of Oslo to integrate functionality in to DHIS2 that can help countries manage and monitor their immunisation programmes more effectively. This partner support began in 2016 and has led to the development and implementation of DHIS2 immunisation packages available through the WHO website.

As part of a broader review of the Data SFA within Gavi 4.0 and in preparation for new funding allocations for DHIS2 in alignment with the Gavi 5.0 Strategy, Gavi has commissioned HealthEnabled to conduct this Look Back and Look Forward Review to document lessons learned from past investments and align future activities with the Digital Health Information Strategy and Gavi 5.0 focus on zero dose children.

DHIS2 is an electronic Health Management Information System (HMIS) developed by the Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) at the University of Oslo (UiO). It was designed to collect routine data from health facilities to support decentralised decision-making at the district and facility level and serves as a tool for validation, analysis, visualisation, and sharing of health system data. DHIS2 is a software platform that can be configured to support a variety of uses cases, as well as built upon with custom apps or features developed outside of the DHIS2 core team, using the API and Android SDK. The DHIS2 data model supports both aggregate and individual-level data — including features for monitoring and following up with individual people or entities over time — and online and offline data entry via the DHIS2 web portal, mobile Android app, SMS, or direct import. It is a free and open-source software (FOSS) that can be tailored to the data collection needs of each country.