Success Stories

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 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: 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 ›

CHISU Results in Action: Joint Supervision Enables Agile COVID-19 Response in Burkina Faso

In Burkina Faso, prior investments to improve the country’s health information systems better prepared the country to respond to emergencies. When COVID-19 hit, the country was able to build on those systems, rather than starting from scratch, and quickly respond to the pandemic. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Decentralized Reporting at Health Facilities will Lead to Improved Data Quality in Burkina Faso

Since 2013, Burkina Faso has used DHIS2 for routine data management of the national health information system. DHIS2 is currently deployed throughout the country from the national to district level, with monthly data entry carried out by the manager of the Center for Health Information and Epidemiological Surveillance (CISSE) based at each district. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: The Case of the Dead Cattle and Fish in Burkina Faso

With CHISU support, human and zoonotic data have been integrated and linked to the information systems of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Animal and Fisheries Resources, and the Ministry of the Environment Green Economy and Climate Change in Burkina Faso. Read more ›

CHISU Results in Action: Ministries Gain Better Insights from Interoperable Data in Burkina Faso

In 2019, USAID supported the development of a One Health information system in Burkina Faso with MEASURE Evaluation (a USAID funded project), and continued support through the Country Health Information Systems and Data Use (CHISU) program to create a comprehensive and effective response to zoonotic and key human health threats at the community level. Read more ›