Overview
Digital Square works in the West and Central Africa region to enhance the capacity of digital health leaders through training and technical assistance, building on existing digital health approaches and plans in each country. We sponsor and host trainings for digital health leaders, and we provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health with creating enterprise architecture, developing costed roadmaps, and integrating and empowering Community Health Workers (CHWs) as a valued part of the health system.
Highlights from the region
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local leaders have accelerated digital health transformation due to the formal adoption and appropriation of the costed Digital Health Investment Roadmap for the DRC by the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention (MOH) and the National Universal Health Coverage Council. The roadmap, supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Digital Square, will help to plot a course for standardizing the DRC’s different digital platforms, training thousands of health workers, and computerizing thousands of health centers by 2024.
Digital Square convened a TOGAF® Standard Certification Training for Francophone African Ministry of Health (MOH) officials from Senegal, Burkina Faso, DRC, and Mali. The TOGAF® Standard is designed to enable Ministries of Health to advance enterprise architecture planning for their respective country’s national digital health systems, enabling more streamlined implementation and governance processes, reduced costs, and ultimately better health outcomes at the country level.
Senegal has made great progress in reducing the prevalence of Malaria in the past several decades. Through the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and Digital Community Health Initiative (DCHI), Digital Square, has partnered with Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action (MSAS) to continue further progress by creating a digital community health febrile disease management system, allowing CHWs to seamlessly share data and gather insights to inform their work.