Tesfaye Beyene, Shebedino District Health Office head. Photo: Benti Ejeta/JSI
From 2019 to 2024, Shebedino was one of the three districts that JSI’s Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP), in collaboration with Hawassa University and the Sidama Regional Health Bureau (RHB), helped implement the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Information Revolution (IR) initiative. If anyone can tell the dramatic story of Shebedino District’s health information system (HIS) transformation, it is Tesfaye Beyene, Shebedino Health Office head,…who has watched the IR unfold and witnessed its effects on staff and service quality. Read more…