Despite significant health achievements in recent years, the absence of a well-functioning HIS has prevented policymakers in Bangladesh from monitoring population health in real time and targeting interventions accordingly. Reflecting the country’s pluralistic health service delivery arrangements, Bangladesh’s HIS is highly fragmented. Multiple overlapping reporting systems result in heavy paperwork burdens and poor data quality. The project has distributed laptops and wireless modems to almost 15,000 government-run health facilities countrywide. Some 7,000 facilities now report routine information electronically, using DHIS2; the remainder should be doing so by the end of 2015.

• Bangladesh