What the SW EPI Report Generator Will and Will Not Say

Every month the South West Region’s EPI data review needs the same two documents: a Word report and a PowerPoint deck. The data is already in DHIS2. The work is in moving it into the format the review uses.

The SW EPI Report Generator does that step. Give it the monthly immunisation export and it builds either document, for the region or for a single health district, in English or French. You choose one format per run, and only that one is built.

It works offline. The tool never connects to DHIS2 and holds no password. You fetch the data yourself, through a bookmark you run in your own browser tab while you are logged in, and then hand the downloaded files to the tool.

Two formats, because the review uses two

A regional report has eleven sections: programme performance framework, follow-up on recommendations and action plans, implementation of the annual plan, epidemiological situation and outbreak response, AEFI surveillance and data reporting, vaccination performance, vaccine and cold chain and logistics management, communication and social mobilisation, priority actions, financial statement, and formal completion and validation.

A district report has its own eleven, running from background and objectives through coverage by antigen and by health area, zero-dose and under-vaccinated children, cold chain and stock, to the action plan and a closing section on data quality.

It does not invent numbers

Anything the export does not carry prints in red brackets, so the EPI unit can see what is missing and complete it by hand. The financial statement arrives that way, and so does every deadline.

It does not state a cause

The district action plan has a cause column and the tool leaves it empty. If a vaccine ran out and coverage fell, the report says both, and the review meeting decides whether one explains the other.

Priority actions, ranked by children

Priority actions are ranked by the number of children behind each finding, so the largest gap sits at the top. Each line names the officer responsible and the indicator to watch.

It was built by a practising District Medical Officer in Mamfe, Cameroon, against the documents the region already uses.

Getting it

The tool costs 10,000 FCFA, once, paid by mobile money, and the access code you receive re-downloads it for life. Adapting it to another region, another indicator set or another report format is quoted separately.

It is in the Pro Library. You pay by mobile money, confirm on your phone, and the download starts as soon as the payment clears.

— Dr. Nzozone Henry Fomukong