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Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment

The Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment (DPPA) Toolkit was commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to the GFA Consulting Group on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and with support from Digital Square. 

The tool aims to provide a systematic methodology to identify the need for digital tools that integrate with countries’ existing digital ecosystems while also modernizing their overall pandemic preparedness. The DPPA integrates and builds on data from the USAID Map and Match project and also uses the EDIT tool developed by the Kati collective to help assess the state of digital health readiness.

The DPPA Tool, first published in 2021, has now been tested and refined in assessments, which were carried out in five countries (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo) in 2021-2022. After completing these assessments, GIZ updated the Toolkit to Version 2.0 and completed the following analyses and reports.

Publication date: September 2025

Available materials

  1. English

    1. Executive Summary -Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment 373.4 KB PDF
    2. Towards a Digital Health System Cycle Learnings from the Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment 1012.4 KB PDF
    3. Pilot Implementation Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment 1.2 MB PDF
    4. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Ghana 1.1 MB PDF
    5. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Cote d'Ivoire 1.2 MB PDF
    6. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Nigeria 997.6 KB PDF
    7. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Sierra Leone 819.5 KB PDF
    8. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Togo 838.8 KB PDF

  2. French

    1. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Cote d'Ivoire 1.6 MB PDF
    2. DPPA Report Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment Togo 1.3 MB PDF