eHealth Africa, in collaboration with Nigeria Health Watch, has launched the Insights Learning Forum 2026 Report and Learning Brief, documenting key outcomes and tracking 11 public commitments made to strengthen Africa’s health systems.
The report, launched following the 2026 forum, brings together insights from government, public health, technology, research, development and private-sector stakeholders, with the commitments to be monitored ahead of the next forum scheduled for July 27–28, 2027.
The Senior Coordinator, Communications at eHealth Africa, Moshood Isah, said the report went beyond documenting discussions at the forum.
“Importantly, the report goes beyond documenting what was discussed at the Forum,” Isah said.
He said the report contained a dedicated Commitment Table designed to track the 11 commitments made by partners during the forum.
The mechanism, he explained, was intended to ensure that commitments made publicly remained visible and were followed beyond the event.
The two-day ILF 2026 examined practical examples of innovation, investment and collaboration already producing results across Africa’s health sector.
Participants also considered how successful initiatives could be strengthened, connected and scaled across the continent.
During the Commitment Session, 11 institutions, alongside eHealth Africa, made specific and trackable commitments to advance health systems.
Rather than allowing the commitments to end with the conference, the organisers established a public accountability mechanism to monitor progress.
The newly released report will serve as a reference for assessing progress ahead of ILF 2027.
eHealth Africa’s Director of Partnerships and Programs, Ota Akhigbe, said the report was designed to ensure that the forum translated into measurable action.
“ILF was never intended to end when the last session closed,” Akhigbe said.
She said the report would document the discussions, lessons and commitments made during the forum while providing a means of tracking progress.
“As we look towards ILF 2027, we want to be able to point not only to the conversations we had, but to the progress those conversations helped create,” she added.
The Managing Director of Nigeria Health Watch, Vivianne Ihekweazu, said Africa needed to move beyond digital health pilot projects to sustainable integration into health systems.
“Africa has no shortage of digital health innovation. What we need is to move from pilots to practical solutions that are integrated into health systems, sustainably financed, and built around the people they serve,” Ihekweazu said.
She said Nigeria Health Watch was committed to supporting the accountability process.
As co-author of the report, Nigeria Health Watch will independently review reported progress against evidence submitted by eHealth Africa in each monitoring cycle.
The report noted that commitments were currently recorded as eHealth Africa-reported, pending independent review as supporting evidence is submitted ahead of ILF 2027.
eHealth Africa said it would use the Commitment Table to monitor progress, follow up on commitments and guide continued engagement with partners before the 2027 forum.
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