How long does this certification take?

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Is this certification globally recognised?

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What level is this certification?

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Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform) in Madagascar

Executive Summary

Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform)

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform) (CHISS) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness.

This 11 Weeks programme is structured around SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CHISS holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification

Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform)

Acronym

CHISS

Who Should Enrol?

HR Managers and Directors
HR Business Partners
Learning and Development Managers
Employee Relations and OD Specialists

Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

All study materials and study guide
Access to GLI online learning portal
Online examination and assessment
Digital certificate and digital badge
Physical certificate (shipped to you)
CPD credits for professional bodies
GLI alumni network membership
Facilitator and tutor support
Resource downloads and reference library
Automatic enrolment confirmation

Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement

Accelerate your career towards CHRO and senior people-management roles

Professional Recognition

Credential aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards

Leadership Capability

Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex human resource management functions

Organisational Impact

Design and implement human resource management systems that drive performance and measurable results

Compliance Readiness

Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to human resource management

Global Employability

Qualify for human resource management roles across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations worldwide

Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Data Engineering and Management

✦Analytics, Machine Learning and AI

✦Performance, Reward and Employee Relations

✦HR Strategy, Analytics and Workforce Planning

✦Employment Law, Compliance and HR Governance

✦Professional Ethics and Governance

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform)

Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform): industry context, trends and professional standards
Computing fundamentals and IT concepts
The role of IT in business and value creation
IT operating models and organisation
Hardware, software and systems overview
The technology landscape and trends
IT professional roles and standards
Digital transformation and IT strategy
Ethics, responsibility and digital citizenship
IT service and product mindset
Career pathways and professional development

Security and Data Protection

Cybersecurity fundamentals and the human factor
Data protection and privacy by design
Cloud, infrastructure and the connectivity constraint
Artificial intelligence: capability, limits and responsible use
Technical debt and system lifecycle
Descriptive statistics and reading a distribution
Dashboards, reporting and the metric that misleads
Agile delivery and iterative development
Testing, quality assurance and defect economics
Vendor selection and managing technology suppliers
IT service management and support operations
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Digital user experience and accessibility
Managing technology teams and technical work
Data storytelling and communicating findings

Cloud, Connectivity and Cost

Cloud, infrastructure and the connectivity constraint
Technical debt and system lifecycle
Delivering technology change that people adopt
Digital ethics and algorithmic accountability
Building digital capability in an organisation
Data quality and the fitness-for-purpose test
Turning analysis into a decision
Correlation, causation and experiment design
Requirements and the specification gap
Systems integration and the single source of truth
Automation and where it genuinely pays

Automation, AI and Their Limits

Automation and where it genuinely pays
Artificial intelligence: capability, limits and responsible use
Correlation, causation and experiment design

Adoption and Lifecycle

Delivering technology change that people adopt
Technical debt and system lifecycle
Systems integration and the single source of truth

Requirements and the Real Problem

Requirements and the specification gap
Delivering technology change that people adopt
Turning analysis into a decision

Data Quality and Sources

Data quality and the fitness-for-purpose test
Systems integration and the single source of truth
Turning analysis into a decision

Learning and Knowledge

Learning KPIs and scorecards
Driving measurable learning impact
Building a learning culture
Knowledge management and sharing
Learning in the flow of work
Self-directed and continuous learning
Embedding learning in performance
Sustaining a learning organisation
Capstone scoping: a real learning challenge
Designing a learning programme or curriculum
Analytical techniques and bias
Learning data privacy and ethics
Innovation in learning technology
Learning strategy and roadmaps
Talent, succession and workforce learning

Health and Safety Context

Preparing financial statements
Workplace wellbeing strategy
Healthy work design
Absence and health management
Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Interpreting financial statements
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Product safety and standards
Health and safety legal duties
Absence, capability and ill-health management
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
Budget vs actual and variance
Contractor safety management
Safety culture and behaviour

Technology Foundations

Forecasting and planning
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Attachment and developmental theory
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
LAN, WAN and network design
Software design patterns and quality
Big data technologies and platforms
Network design, LAN/WAN and topologies
Peer support and consultation
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Record-keeping and data protection
Digital banking platforms and APIs
Payment technology and switches
Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
Cybersecurity and fraud technology

Data and Evidence

Data warehousing and data lakes
ETL, data pipelines and engineering
Data analytics and visualisation
Data privacy and protection
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Baseline surveys and data collection tools
Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
Data quality, analysis and reporting
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Client feedback and satisfaction
Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
Data modelling and database design
NoSQL and modern data stores
Data-driven decision support and analytics
Complaint data and learning

Governance and Risk

L&D operating models and governance
Technical and compliance training
Evidence-based improvement
Managing risk and difficult cases
Lessons learned and development
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Governance and organisational value
Public, private and non-profit governance
Responsible and sustainable governance
Committees: audit, risk, remuneration
Governance frameworks and codes
Ground control and strata management
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Reporting quality and governance
Duty of care and risk management

Legal and Regulatory

Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape
The regulatory and legal environment
Regulatory change management
Employment relationship and the psychological contract
Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
Legal and regulatory responsibility
Environmental legal compliance
Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
Contractor and visitor safety
Policy, planning and objectives
Legal and other requirements
Procurement and contract management
Advocacy and policy engagement
Regulatory compliance and biosafety
Regulatory compliance and market requirements

Delivery and Projects

Project initiation and chartering
Integrated project planning
Project management plan development
Resource planning and levelling
Quality planning and assurance
Agile metrics and velocity
Communication planning and management
Building project relationships
Project management software and tools
Scheduling and planning tools
Project data, reporting and analytics
Sustainability and social impact in projects
Health, safety and compliance in delivery
Project KPIs and performance metrics
Quality and delivery metrics

Leadership and Decisions

Management accounts and dashboards
Decision support and insight
Practice management systems
Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
Collaboration and teamwork
Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
Project roles and the project manager
Stakeholder and sponsor management
Organisational change management
Building project management maturity
Workforce and shift management in retail
Mine water, tailings and environmental management
Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects
Subcontractor and supplier management

Capability and Training

Feedback and developmental conversations
Career and talent development
Building a coaching culture
Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
Capability and skills frameworks
Sales and customer-service training
Language and communication training
Creativity and critical-thinking development
Leadership and management development
Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
Training needs analysis and learning strategy
Coaching and quality monitoring
Training and capability building
Coaching for performance
Development banking and project finance

Change and Adoption

Foreign exchange and hedging
Change management and adoption
The finance function and digital transformation
Large-scale transformation and agile ways of working
Designing and facilitating groups
Managing resistance and engagement
Psychoeducation and workshops
Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
Managing resistance and capability building
Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
Change talk and readiness
Customer experience transformation
Digital and self-service transformation
Measuring CX transformation impact
Digital transformation in banking

Operations and Service

Working with organisations on wellbeing
Outcome and process measures
Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
Quality control and continuous improvement
Integrated risk and quality control
Data quality and governance
Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
Traceability, recall and quality assurance systems
Quality management systems and audits
Advisory service design and delivery
Data quality and master data management
Policy administration and customer service in insurance
The vehicle sales process from enquiry to delivery
In-process quality control and inspection

Cost and Investment

Cost-volume-profit and break-even analysis
Standard costing and variance analysis
Budgeting techniques and the budgeting cycle
Flexible budgets and rolling forecasts
Responsibility accounting and cost centres
Cost reduction and efficiency programmes
Capital budgeting: NPV, IRR and payback
Cost of capital and WACC
Capital structure and financing decisions
Real options and strategic investment
Financial modelling and scenario analysis
Cost and profitability analysis
Data visualisation for finance
Communicating financial results
Cost-benefit and investment appraisal

Stakeholders and Vendors

Managing difficult stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping in banking
Negotiation and influencing
Relationship management and cross-selling
Wealth, SME and corporate relationships
Stakeholder communications
Managing supplier risk
Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Learner and stakeholder satisfaction
Vendor and faculty management
Strategic customer relationships
Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
Managing boundaries and dual relationships
The project environment and stakeholders

Communication and Documentation

Governance of ESG and reporting
Communicating and reporting to leadership
Management and board reporting
Safety communication and campaigns
Environmental monitoring and reporting
Communicating risk to the workforce
Incident reporting and record-keeping
Designing an intervention or programme
Toolbox talks and safety communication
Just culture and reporting
Communicating vision and telling stories
Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting
Process and control documentation
Control monitoring and reporting
Crisis communications

Users and Customers

Destination, venue and experience products
Event planning timelines, run sheets and production schedules
Vehicle specifications, trims and options in customer language
Customer retention in the vehicle ownership cycle
Maintenance in production: preventive, predictive and breakdown
Costing production: standard costs, variances and the true cost of scrap
Customer loyalty and repeat purchase in retail
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Telecom products, tariffs and customer lifecycles
Creating content that performs: formats, hooks and production
Professional case study and presentation
Market research design and methods
Customer experience and journey mapping
Competitive and market intelligence
Evidence-based practice

Strategic Context

Sustainability strategy and materiality
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
Business model design and unit economics
Value innovation and uncontested market space
Innovation portfolio and the three horizons
Intellectual property and defensibility of innovation
Measuring innovation performance
Vision, mission and strategic intent
Competitive strategy and positioning
Key account management strategy
Building strategic customer relationships
Translating insight into strategy
Risk assessment and safety planning

Security

Fraud risk and controls
Goal setting and contracting
Incident investigation and reporting
Security governance and management systems
Ethics and professional conduct in security
Claims investigation and fraud indicators
Treatment planning and review
Awareness and security culture
Cybersecurity and financial data protection
Fraud risk, prevention and detection
Cybersecurity governance
Cyber risk management
Data breach and incident governance
Cloud and data security
Security by design

Performance Measurement

Cost, performance and capacity management
Setting objectives, indicators and targets
Linking CX to business performance
Service KPIs: CSAT, NPS, CES, SLAs
Performance management in service
Banking KPIs and branch scorecards
Credit risk measurement and mitigation
Sales performance and pipeline management
Social performance and outreach
Investment principles and objectives
Performance monitoring and KPIs
Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
Marketing and sales KPIs and dashboards

Procurement and Supply

Managing complexity and comorbidity
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Procurement and contract value
Supply market analysis
Third-party and supply-chain risk
Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
The procurement cycle and operating models
Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
Public versus private procurement
Supply markets and the enabling environment
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
Sustainable procurement principles and standards
Fair trade and responsible supply

Workforce

Employee engagement models and drivers
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Workforce management and scheduling
Workforce planning and scheduling
Employee experience and engagement
Customer and employee satisfaction
Audit risk and materiality
Thought leadership
Category management and strategy
Spend analysis and segmentation
Team coaching and the team as client

Ethics and Standards

Ethics and integrity in banking
Professional ethics and banking conduct
Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
Responsible and sustainable banking
Ethics and independence
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
Ethics and professional standards in finance
Digital ethics and responsible AI
Embedding responsible business
Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Sustaining ethical, effective practice

Sustainability

Monitoring, evaluation and sustainability plan
Sustainability certification and standards
Sustainable and green banking
Control environment and risk assessment
Emerging assurance areas (ESG)
Workplace and organisational contexts
Sustainability, ESG and integrated value
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
ESG principles and frameworks
Environmental governance and climate risk
Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
Goal setting and action planning
Sustainability and environmental duty
Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)
Sustainability and climate responsibility

Professional Leadership Practice

Energy efficiency and demand management
Range planning and category management
Habit change and behaviour design
Accountability and follow-through
Lessons learned and knowledge management
Value and benefits management
Requirements gathering and management
Earned value management
Issue and problem management
Servant leadership and self-organising teams
Negotiation and conflict management
Management reporting and decision support
Working capital management and the cash cycle
Cash flow forecasting and liquidity management
Financial risk management and derivatives

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform) principles aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards
Apply evidence-based methods to improve human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness
Master talent acquisition, resourcing and onboarding and learning, development and talent management
Apply performance, reward and employee relations and hr strategy, analytics and workforce planning in real-world settings
Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in human resource management

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CHISS certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CHISS?

This certification is ideal for HR Managers and Directors, HR Business Partners, Learning and Development Managers and Employee Relations and OD Specialists, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CHISS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 11 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CHISS internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CHISS certification?

The Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform) is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CHISS certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CHISS?

The Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform) is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CHISS?

The Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform) carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CHISS while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CHISS?

Graduates progress towards CHRO and senior people-management roles. The CHISS strengthens your expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness and positions you for advancement across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations.

Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform)

Certified Health Information Systems Specialist (DHIS2 Platform)

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

What Our Alumni Say

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