A cross-border data collaboration project involving 23 African countries above the Equator is launching the first ever daily public COVID dashboard for countries in the Horn of Africa in June 2021.

The United States Agency for International Development, USAID-funded Regional Action Through Data programme is tackling COVID-19 in West and East Africa through two initiatives, respectively involving the sharing of real-time regional disease data online and tech-enabled cross-border immunisations.

These initiatives are said to be enabling governments to better collaborate to protect their roving pastoral populations from epidemics and to overcome the data issues of the Ebola era.

More from Dr. Andrew Kitua, BroadReach's Regional Programme Director of RAD, who manages the implementation of the programme…