National Digital Health Information Costed Country Roadmap Toolkit

Over the past three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has engaged in a strategic review process to identify digital health information interventions and enablers that will have the most significant impact on immunisation outcomes to achieve the Gavi 5.0 goals and objectives with a specific focus on zero-dose and under-immunised children. The strengthening of digital health information interventions for immunisation is viewed as an entry point to improving primary health care and contributing to universal health coverage. Gavi’s resulting Digital Health Information Strategy and accompanying resources are intended to coordinate global and national immunisation efforts to invest in integrated, equitable, gender-intentional information systems that will improve the delivery of life-saving vaccines for all children. The Gavi Digital Health Information Strategy identifies six promising digital application areas to accelerate immunisation outcomes and overcome common immunisation programme challenges. These priorities are the result of 3 years of stakeholder consultation, documentation, and evidence reviews with peer-review and refinement at each stage to identify the most promising and effective digital health information interventions.

The guiding principles are:

1. Countries have many immunisation challenges to address with limited funds, and often prioritize key challenges as part of program strategy. This toolkit aims to help countries better identify digital health information interventions that can specifically address their prioritized immunisation challenges.
2. Countries require significant investments in digital health enablers and no one health vertical can or should support all enablers. The toolkit facilitates the prioritisation of digital health enablers that can be supported through a coordinated effort across public and private sectors as well as through the funding agencies.
3. The Gender Digital Divide threatens to undermine investments in digital health information. Gender-intentional digital health interventions and enablers are facilitated through complementary gender-related activities identified through gender analysis planning, and monitoring.