DHIS2 has become the backbone of routine health reporting in many African countries, carrying everything from monthly facility returns to individual patient records for HIV, tuberculosis and immunisation. Its value depends on how well it is configured and governed. Poorly structured metadata, uncontrolled user access and weak data review routines quickly turn a national platform into a source of conflicting numbers, while well-managed systems give planners timely evidence for allocating staff, commodities and budgets.

The DHIS2 Health Information System Management Training Course moves from design to use. Participants start with the logic of the platform, set up organisation units, data elements, category combinations and data entry forms, then configure Tracker programmes with stages, program rules and indicators. Later sessions concentrate on analytics, data quality and administration: building favourites and dashboards, scheduling analytics tables, auditing user roles, managing metadata packages for programmes such as malaria and immunisation, and connecting DHIS2 with other systems through its API. The final day addresses governance, change management and the routines that keep a live instance healthy.

Every participant works on a training instance of DHIS2 throughout the week. Facilitators demonstrate each configuration step, then participants repeat it with their own scenarios, finishing with a configured data set, a Tracker program, a dashboard and a data quality review report.

On completing the programme, participants will be able to:

• Design an organisation unit hierarchy and metadata structure that matches national reporting requirements.
• Configure data elements, category combinations, data sets and custom data entry forms.
• Set up Tracker and Event programmes with stages, program rules and program indicators.
• Build pivot tables, charts, maps and dashboards that answer managers' questions.
• Apply validation rules, outlier detection and WHO data quality review methods to routine data.
• Administer users, roles, sharing settings and analytics jobs securely.
• Exchange data and metadata with other systems using import tools and the DHIS2 Web API.

Participants typically come from ministries of health, health programmes and the partners that support them, for example:

• Health information and HMIS officers
• Health records and information officers at county, regional and district level
• Monitoring and evaluation officers in disease and reproductive health programmes
• DHIS2 system administrators and implementers
• Programme managers for HIV, TB, malaria, immunisation and nutrition
• Data managers at NGOs and implementing partners
• Epidemiologists and disease surveillance officers
• Health informatics and ICT staff supporting health facilities

You return to your organisation with:

• A configured aggregate data set and data entry form built on the training instance.
• A working Tracker programme with program rules and indicators.
• A published dashboard combining charts, tables and maps for a district health team.
• A data quality review report covering completeness, timeliness and consistency.
• A checklist for user role design, sharing and routine system maintenance.
• A short improvement plan for the DHIS2 instance you support.

Most of the week is spent inside DHIS2 itself. Delivery combines:

• Live configuration demonstrations on a shared training server
• Individual lab work on each participant's own sandbox instance
• Data quality exercises using anonymised routine reporting data
• Group design challenges based on real programme reporting tools
• Peer review of dashboards and configuration choices

A CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy is awarded to participants who attend the full programme and complete the hands-on configuration labs.