Localizing common requirements for immunization digital systems: Experience from the DIPC project

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As part of the GIZ Digital Innovation in Pandemic Control (DIPC) project, Digital Square is creating models for more agile, efficient, sustainable, and pandemic-prepared health systems with a focus on immunization workflows. By leveraging existing tools, guidelines, and standards—such as WHO’s SMART Guidelines and their Digital Adaptation Kit (DAK) framework—DIPC is improving systems to be more responsive to the needs of clients, healthcare providers, and health system managers.

While WHO has released DAKs for HIV, family planning, and antenatal care, an immunization DAK was not yet available when DIPC project countries were designing their system enhancements. Instead, DIPC teams opted to use the WHO DAK framework available from other health areas and apply it to immunization to create a system and user requirements document (SURD) for each country. Each localized SURD then served as the foundational document used for system development, providing a common language across various audiences.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the localized SURD development process as part of the DIPC project.