News and Updates

Country Updates, News

29 Sep 2026

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education Partners with KIX EMAP and HISP to Strengthen Education Data Systems

Working with HISP Sri Lanka and the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo, the Ministry of Education is using DHIS2 to build a digital platform that tracks funding, meal delivery and payments for a program feeding about 1.5 million students, the first phase of a wider collaboration on education data systems.

Country Updates

18 Sep 2026

Counting every learner: How Uganda made disability data work for inclusive education

Education officials in Mayuge District, Uganda, used DHIS2 to classify 1,746 learners by type and level of disability, then used that evidence to open a special needs education unit at Ikulwe Primary School and secure trained teachers, ramps and braille machines.

Country Updates

2 Sep 2026

The Gambia Launches Education Data Center to Publicly Share Education Data

The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has integrated education data from separate sources onto a single public DHIS2 portal, the Education Data Center, and is now building new applications on top of it, including an early warning system to identify learners at risk of dropping out.

Country Updates

31 Aug 2026

Using DHIS2 to Plan Teacher Deployment and School Construction in Togo

Regional education offices in Togo now analyze school census data directly in DHIS2 to deploy teachers, prioritize school construction and target classroom furniture shortages—work that once depended on centrally produced reports, and that has left planners asking for data more current than the annual census cycle provides.

Country Updates, News

14 Aug 2026

Nigeria Launches Nationwide Education Data System, Reaching More Than 40 Million Learners

The Digital National Education Management Information System (DNEMIS), built on DHIS2, went live nationwide on July 1, capturing data on more than 124,000 schools and 40 million learners—one of the world’s largest DHIS2 implementations.

News

11 May 2026

Building a Smarter Education Data System in Lesotho with DHIS2

The Ministry of Education and Training is replacing its paper-based data collection process with LEMIS, a national education management information system built on DHIS2, covering 4,819 institutions and spanning early childhood through tertiary education, through a partnership with UNICEF and HISP.