Discover how DHIS2 supports routine nutrition monitoring, child growth tracking, acute malnutrition management, and maternal nutrition programs through integrated data systems, real-time analytics, and mobile data collection—using flexible digital tools adapted to national and subnational nutrition contexts.
Nutrition programs require timely, integrated data to track child growth, manage acute malnutrition, monitor maternal nutrition, and inform evidence-based interventions. Digital platforms like DHIS2 provide a powerful foundation for collecting, managing, and analyzing nutrition data from health facilities, community-based interventions, and mass campaigns, while enabling integration with health, climate, and food security data.
As a scalable and configurable platform, DHIS2 serves as the backbone for national nutrition information systems, supporting use cases such as growth monitoring and promotion, community-based management of acute malnutrition, maternal counseling, infant and young child feeding programs, vitamin A supplementation campaigns, and nutrition surveillance. DHIS2 enables countries and organizations to combine aggregate indicators, individual patient tracking, and geospatial data in a single, interoperable system—supporting decision-making from community level to national policy.
The DHIS2 Nutrition toolkit, developed in collaboration with UNICEF, gives countries a practical starting point for integrating standard nutrition indicators into their national DHIS2 systems. It covers key intervention areas and includes dashboards designed to support analysis and decision-making at facility and community levels.
Nutrition monitoring in DHIS2 can also support cross-sector data integration, linking nutrition outcomes with food security, agriculture, water and sanitation, and climate data to facilitate comprehensive approaches to addressing malnutrition.
Across diverse contexts, DHIS2 is being adapted to support nutrition resilience, program effectiveness, and data-driven decision-making, often in collaboration with ministries of health, international organizations including UNICEF and WHO, nutrition clusters, and implementing partners.
The DHIS2 platform includes built-in functionalities that support key aspects of nutrition data collection and analysis:
While the features above are broadly applicable, DHIS2 has been adapted to support nutrition programs across multiple regions and contexts. The examples below show how countries and organizations are leveraging DHIS2 for nutrition.
The real-world examples below show how countries and organizations leverage DHIS2 to make an impact on nutrition programmes.
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