WHO Africa launches Health Campaign Digitization effort to advance health project preparation

Brazzaville – The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is advancing the digital improvement of public health shipment with the launch of the DIGIT Health Campaign Data Digitization Project, a local effort developed to update how health projects are prepared, collaborated, carried out and kept an eye on throughout the continent.

The effort constructs on growing experience throughout the Region in digitizing massive health projects. The DIGIT platform is created as an open, modular and interoperable digital facilities that supplies nations with a merged user interface for preparation, handling and keeping an eye on vaccination projects, decreasing dependence on fragmented and non-interoperable tools. The platform is being released through a very first stage which will consist of 7 pilot nations, laying the structure for local scale-up.

“The technique is centred on nation ownership and information sovereignty. Instead of producing another stand-alone program tool, DIGIT is planned to supply a typical digital facilities through which info can be created, handled and utilized throughout programs,” stated Dr Gedi Mohamed, Coordinator of the WHO AFRO Polio Eradication Programme (PEP).

Led collectively by the WHO African Region ´ s Polio Eradication Programme and the Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Control Cluster, in partnership with the eGov Foundation and with assistance from the Gates Foundation, the three-year effort looks for to speed up the adoption of incorporated, data-driven digital services that reinforce health systems, assistance Universal Health Coverage and advance development towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

Throughout the WHO African Region, nations have actually made essential development in digital health over the previous years. Spaces stay in the preparation and execution of complicated health projects, especially when numerous interventions, partners and information systems require to be collaborated at the same time.

DIGIT looks for to resolve this obstacle by making it possible for nations to move towards one incorporated platform for project information and operations.

A crucial function of DIGIT is the combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial intelligence into project management. This will make it possible for nations to enhance microplanning, determine underserved populations and keep an eye on application in genuine time. By bringing location-based details together with project information, groups can much better comprehend where interventions are reaching neighborhoods and where spaces stay.

The experience underpinning DIGIT has actually currently reached considerable scale. The crucial carrying out partner, the eGOV Foundation’s Health Campaign Management experience on which the effort constructs has actually covered a population of 40 million individuals throughout Africa, supplying a structure for larger local adoption.

“Health projects are a few of the most crucial methods for providing preventive interventions to populations not quickly reached by regular services. Presently, they are still mainly prepared and provided vertically throughout programs. This platform matches the WHO Regional Office for Africa’s wider work to reinforce integrated health project preparation and execution throughout programs,” stated Dr Benido Impouma, Director of the Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases Cluster, WHO Regional Office for Africa.

Preparatory work was very first carried out to improve the DIGIT Health Campaign Management platform and develop the technical facilities needed at the WHO Regional Office for Africa. This was followed by a joint advocacy objective to Chad previously this year, combining agents from WHO AFRO’s Polio Eradication Programme, the Gates Foundation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the eGov Foundation.

The assessments verified strong political dedication to embracing the DIGIT-HCM platform and developed a clear path for application: this led to the very first pilot implementation of DIGIT-HCM in a district of N’Djamena Province throughout the June 2026 polio vaccination project. The pilot marked a crucial primary step towards using the platform at functional level and creating lessons for wider local scale-up.

The experience likewise develops on WHO’s broader assistance to nations in utilizing digital tools for project shipment. Throughout the area, especially in polio concern nations, digital project systems have actually allowed health employees to send project details digitally, enabling program groups to see outcomes faster than with standard paper-based reporting.

Through the effort, WHO and carrying out partners will support nations in spatial information analysis, capacity-building and the institutionalization of geospatial tools within nationwide health systems.

Taking part Member States will be assembled to evaluate nationwide preparedness, adjust execution to nation contexts and reinforce systems for collaborating health projects.