Our Partners

Since HISP’s beginning in post-apartheid South Africa in 1994, our work has been funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the University of Oslo and the Research Council of Norway with the goal of strengthening health systems in the Global South. In 2013, Norad, PEPFAR, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria committed to support the HISP program together due to DHIS2’s expanding footprint. Later, UNICEF, the CDC, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance came on board, and remain active investors in HISP and DHIS2. These health-focused partners were joined in 2019 by STELLA/Novartis for health supply chain and logistics and by IDRC and GPE/KIX for the education sector. In 2022, Resolve to Save lives made an investment in improving the DHIS2 user experience to support their hypertension screening and treatment programs. In 2023, the Wellcome Trust announced two multi-year grants to the HISP Centre to fund both our core DHIS2 development and operations and our new engagement in the field of Climate & Health. Explore a timeline of HISP & DHIS2 investment and development.

Our investors are not merely financial partners. They are our close collaborators on the HISP approach to supporting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in strengthening their digital systems for improved governance, first in health and increasingly across sectors. We work with them through multi-year agreements that include research, software development, implementation, and capacity building, both at the global level and at the country level through the HISP network. Each year, our investors come together with us in Oslo for an annual meeting to review our progress and help drive us forward, and to help facilitate collaboration and coordination across the investor group.

While our investors have different program priorities, their funding for HISP and DHIS2 balances and complements each other, and supports LMICs in information system strengthening overall. Sharing financial support across investor organizations reduces financial risk, as no one investor is responsible for supporting the core DHIS2 platform by themselves, and they can collaborate to make up for individual shortfalls, and reprogram funding to meet emerging needs, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate change crisis.

This stable funding has enabled HISP to expand and sustain over time, to have the flexibility to explore the latest technologies, to develop a network of experts across countries and regions, and to continue delivering a stable and generic open-source platform that can be adapted to meet new challenges and local demands. The ongoing support of our partners ensures that DHIS2 remains a sustainable free and open-source solution, a digital public good available for use by all.

The following partners provide financial support to HISP to develop, maintain, and implement the DHIS2 software and shared DHIS2 resources.

HISP welcomes new partnerships that align with our mission to support digitalization and information system strengthening in LMICs in support of the Sustainable Development Goals; contracts for work related to DHIS2 and information systems on a global, regional, and country level; and financial and in-kind contributions to support our work. Visit the Partner with Us page to learn more.