In 2019, the Aga Khan Health Service, Afghanistan, pledged to improve the quality of health services provided at 189 government health facilities across the regions of Bamyan and Badakhshan in Afghanistan.

To facilitate this endeavour, AKDN agencies collaborated to develop a robust, digital health tool to aid with performance monitoring at the health facilities. AKDN dHRC developed Sehatmandi, a tablet-based application to digitise the previously manual assessment and monitoring process for select health facilities. The application enables healthcare administrators to record data through a digital questionnaire, enabling indicator monitoring in real-time.

During 2019, the app was successfully implemented in 74 health facilities in Bamyan along with 115 in Badakhshan, and is now used by healthcare administrators to assist with monthly performance monitoring and reporting in various clinical and administrative areas.

The application is a user-friendly and time-saving tool, and operates in offline mode, allowing data to be synchronised with the central server via SMS technology, at times when an Internet connection is not available.

Sehatmandi is a three-year project administered by the World Bank through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) and implemented by the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan. It aims to increase the utilisation and quality of health, nutrition, and family planning services, across all 34 provinces in Afghanistan.