Success Stories

CHISU Results in Action: Strengthening Organizational Development of Local Partners for a Stronger Health Information System in Indonesia

The Center for Data and Information Technology (Pusdatin), with support from CHISU, started implementing Indonesia's Digital Health Transformation Strategy, increasing access to local partners to provide technical assistance to subnational governments on their digital transformation journeys. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Collectively Mobilizing Health Information System Stakeholders for Data Quality Assurance Plan Development in Niger

Greater data quality assurance has become a priority for Niger’s new HIS strategic plan. In order to find a sustainable solution to the main data quality problems affecting the use of health data, the Ministry of Health proceeded to develop and implement a data quality assurance plan with CHISU support. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Promoting Good Data Quality through Data Competitions in Mali

To support Mali’s efforts to improve data quality in the country, CHISU (in collaboration with the DHIS2 technical team) helped regional management teams organize competitions between health facilities in the program’s intervention regions. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Creating an Online “Legisanté” Library to Increase Accessibility of Burkina Faso’s Strategic Public Health Documents

With financial support from USAID, CHISU provided technical support to set up an online application called “Legisanté” to manage the regulatory texts and other strategic documents in Burkina Faso. The process was carried out under the leadership of key players. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Improving the Malaria Data Quality Score in Nine Provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2018 to 2023

CHISU provides support to the Ministry of Health for improving data analysis, holding regular meetings, conducting malaria routine data quality audits (mRDQA) and supervision in health facilities, conducting malaria data validation and review meetings. All of these activities contribute to improving the quality of data reported in DHIS2. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Transitioning to Electronic Transactional Data Capture in a Complex Implementation Environment in Ghana’s Savannah Region

The transition from paper registers to electronic registers for data capture in Ghana is happening in a complex implementation environment affected by high staff attrition, overburdened staff, poor internet connectivity or lack of internet bundles to sync or upload data, and personnel issues.  Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Streamlining Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Case Management in Haiti

CHISU is supporting Haiti to develop an information system to build upon the existing operational and workflow infrastructure of the country's orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program for case management, tracking beneficiary access to services and support, and PEPFAR reporting. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Improving Data Quality and Use in Eight Districts in Malawi Contributes to Increased Uptake of Malaria Prevention Services

The CHISU program works with Malawi’s National Malaria Control Program to improve the quality and use of the malaria data by targeting eight high malaria burden districts, including a data quality standard operating procedure (SOP), data quality training, and technical support for outreach training and supportive supervision (OTSS) and district data reviews. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Automating Geospatial Data Visualization for Better Public Health Decision Making in Serbia

CHISU assisted in developing custom software to help automate two major processes in Serbia: visualizations of geospatial data pertaining to public health and the processing of data obtained from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Improving the Health and Supply Chain and Systems to Increase Commodity Availability in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

While St Vincent and the Grenadines' supply chain only contains two tiers, several obstacles exist to understanding and effectively balancing supply and demand for health commodities. CHISU supply chain and information technology experts traveled to the country to assess these obstacles and make recommendations to improve commodity management and availability at health facilities nationwide. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Improving Malaria Data Quality in Burkina Faso Using District-Level Data Validation and Involving Head Nurses

CHISU supported Burkina Faso’s plans to deploy ENDOS-BF in all 256 public primary health facilities in the seven health districts of the Centre Ouest region. With this approach, timely data entry rose from 66 percent in 2020 to 90 percent in 2021 then to 97 percent in 2022 for the Centre Ouest region. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Leveraging Software to Improve Data Visualization at the Institute Of Public Health of Serbia “Dr. Milan Jovanovic Batut”

Thanks to CHISU’s support, public health employees in Serbia have acquired new skills and are now trained to independently make new analyses and visualizations of their large volume of data.  Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Data Quality Assurance to Improve Decision Making in Mali

Mali just developed its first national Data Quality Assurance (DQA) Plan, an initiative that counted on CHISU’s support and included consultations with a wide range of Health Information System stakeholders.  Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Developing a New Malaria Strategy to Guide Implementation of Malaria Activities in Malawi From 2023 to 2030

CHISU supports health information systems (HIS) governance as well as improved availability and use of quality health data in Malawi as the country works toward malaria elimination. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Building Digital Maturity for Digital Health Transformation in Indonesia

Indonesia is undergoing a digital transformation of their health system guided by a Digital Health Transformation Roadmap, a four-year blueprint for digitalization developed by the country’s Ministry of Health. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Optimizing Health System Resources in Haiti Through the Carte Sanitaire

Carte Sanitaire—a publicly available web tool for the geolocation of health institutions in Haiti—now provides key information to implementing the country’s Community Health Strategy thanks to CHISU support. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Multisectoral Collaboration for Rabies Prevention: The One Health Approach

CHISU supports Burkina Faso's One Health Executive Secretariat (SE-OH), including through an investigation and comprehensive response to the death of two people from rabies in the Sabou health district in late 2022.  Read more ›