Introduction¶

Digital tools and platforms like DHIS2 have enormous potential for streamlining health campaign data collection and real-time monitoring, as well as supporting functions during the pre-campaign planning phase, post-campaign evaluation and ongoing programmatic analysis and use. Effective use of digital tools for health campaigns can support planners to optimize resource allocation, monitor performance targets in real-time and assess coverage and health impact alongside other data sources. Health campaign activities range from supplemental immunization activities (SIA), insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) and other types of mass drug administration (MDA), indoor residual spraying (IRS), nutritional supplements and more.

The WHO promotes a number of benefits that can be achieved through an integrated approach to campaign digitalization, documented in the Integrated Campaign Digitization Toolkit (2025). The DHIS2 platform aims to support the integrated principles for digitalization of health campaigns across interventions and health programs, borrowing lessons learned from 30 years of designing integrated routine health information systems. This document aims to provide practical guidance to national health programmes, campaign planners, DHIS2 implementers and MOH health information systems units.

Remerciements¶

HISP Centre would like to acknowledge Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) for their financial and technical support in the development of the DHIS2 campaign toolkit and innovative new DHIS2 features that support health campaign use cases, as well as The Gates Foundation whose financial support made this work possible. We also thank the many contributors who made this toolkit possible: the DHIS2 Community of Practice, Ministries of Health, partners and collaborative fora such as the Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition.