Digital Pandemic Preparedness Assessment (DPP)
Since the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa (2014 - 2016), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has been supporting global pandemic preparedness. Digital Pandemic Preparedness (DPP) is critical not only when paper-based methods reach their limits in the face of high caseloads, but also when large-scale epidemics require targeted national, regional and international disease control measures and the optimal use of resources and strategies. Digital tools allow for the rapid generation of granular data sets to identify and model trends in disease patterns, and can subsequently trigger dynamic changes in policy and response.
Building on previous experience, GIZ projects (the Global Health and Digitalization Sector Programs and the GIZ Regional Program supporting pandemic preparedness in the ECOWAS region), KfW, USAID and the Helmholtz Institute for Infection Research (HZI), in collaboration with GFA, developed an initial DPP framework and a first draft of a tool to measure the DPP of individual countries. This assessment complemented other activities in the area of DPP, namely the WHO Digital Health Atlas, the USAID Map & Match (M&M) activity implemented by Digital Square, and the EDIT tool developed by Kati Collective.
This project aimed to:
- contribute to a harmonized DPP by further developing the available DPP-related resources,
- supporting the adaptation and implementation of the tool by German and international development partners, and
- promote data availability under the concept of data as a global good.
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