Togo builds on previous climate-health work and existing DHIS2 health information system infrastructure and capacity to help improve malaria campaign planning and provide stakeholders with an overview of climate impacts on health programs.
Togo was one of the 10 countries involved in the first phase of the DHIS2 Climate & Health project from 2024-2026. This has built on previous local initiatives, such as climate-informed malaria stratification work led by the national malaria control program (NMCP), while also leveraging innovative new DHIS2 tools to explore forecasting and early warning for malaria and other climate-sensitive diseases. Togo continues to develop DHIS2 climate and health systems under the leadership of the Ministry of Health with support from funding and implementation partners, including HISP West & Central Africa (WCA).
Updated: July 2026
Togo’s Ministry of Health has identified several initial focus areas for piloting DHIS2 climate & health systems:
DHIS2 Climate & Health work in Togo builds off existing DHIS2 infrastructure and capacity and incorporates innovative DHIS2 tools for climate data integration, analysis, predictive modeling, and dissemination of tailored outputs to key stakeholders.
In Togo, DHIS2 has been used by the Ministry of Health since 2016 as the country’s Health Management Information System (HMIS), their main data collection and aggregation tool and national repository for health data. Togo also uses DHIS2 for infectious disease surveillance and for monitoring prioritized non-communicable diseases such as hypertension. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and the Ministry of Environment has also been involved in piloting a DHIS2-based One Heath platform for Togo. These systems are owned and maintained by the MoH, with technical support from HISP WCA.
Through the DHIS2 Climate & Health project, HISP WCA has worked on several DHIS2 system enhancements and outputs:
The DHIS2 Climate App has been installed in the national HMIS and malaria repository systems, and provides health stakeholders access to global datasets such as ERA-5, which are also shared with ANAMET for validation and use. HISP WCA is working using DHIS2 Climate Tools to automate the ingestion of ERA-5 data into the national malaria repository, specifically focused on temperature, rainfall, and humidity, and to provide gridded environmental data at the district level.
A central question guiding Togo’s work on predictive modeling with DHIS2 is how to predict malaria cases at the district level to enable the MoH to allocate sufficient resources and drugs several months ahead of need. HISP WCA has installed the Chap Modeling Platform and DHIS2 Modeling App on a DHIS2 staging instance that includes HMIS and intervention data, and has worked with the National Malaria Control Programme to identify key variables, test various models, and validate framework for malaria case prediction to address issues with historical data inconsistency and ensure district-level accuracy. The next steps are to integrate the operational model into DHIS2 and design an alert and notification dashboard using predictive data, working with the NMCP to define action thresholds.
Togo has a well-developed policy landscape for climate and health, grounded in national priorities and supported by a network of partners.
Togo’s climate and health work is informed by the country’s Health National Adaptation Plan (H-NAP) from 2020. This document includes DHIS2 strengthening as an area of focus to support integrated disease surveillance and early warning of climate-sensitive diseases.
The Ministry of Health is responsible for ensuring health system resilience and adaptive capacity for climate-health risks. The National Malaria Control Programme is responsible for national malaria initiatives and data systems. The National Meteorological Agency (ANAMET) is responsible for Togo’s weather and climate data, and has signed a memorandum with the MoH to facilitate data sharing. HISP WCA coordinates with these stakeholders on DHIS2 Climate & Health work.
The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) has supported climate and health work in Togo for several years, including the development of the country’s H-NAP and a concept note for the Green Climate Fund on building the resilience of Togo’s national health system and vulnerable communities to climate sensitive diseases. The WHO country office has also supported this work, and contributed to the development of the malaria stratification approach for SMC campaign planning. Recent enhancements to DHIS2 systems and development of local innovations were financially supported through the DHIS2 Climate & Health project, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Learn more about DHIS2 Climate & Health work in Togo:
During a session at the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference, HISP WCA presented an overview of their DHIS2 Climate & Health work in Togo and other francophone countries.
In this session from the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference, HISP WCA shared their work on early warning for malaria outbreaks in Togo.
By analyzing precipitation and temperature alongside malaria incidence data, Togo’s health authorities can plan more targeted campaigns that help reduce infection and death in children under 5.
HISP WCA presented a poster in June 2025 summarizing the country’s work on climate-informed malaria stratification in DHIS2.
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Are you working on climate and health in Togo? We would love to hear from you. Contact the global DHIS2 Climate & Health project team at climate@dhis2.org, or connect with HISP WCA at: ekossi@hispwca.org