Empowering CHWs to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

 
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Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
Bangladesh
Partners: 
BRAC Manoshi;
Click Diagnostics;
Activities: 

The project aimed to decrease illnesses and deaths in mothers, newborns and children in urban slums of Bangladesh, focussing on major bottlenecks in the current healthcare system - low quality, burden of cost, and lack of timely intervention. Community Health Workers (CHWs) in urban slums were equipped with basic mobile phones in order to easily feed data into an electronic medical database. Doctors could view the data and provide targeted instructions to field staff. The model was piloted in three slums of Dhaka in 2009/10 and evaluated in different categories. Scaling-up to a nation-wide programme was planned.

Further reading: 

Alam, M. et al. 2010, Assessing the scope for use of mobile based solution to improve maternal and child health in Bangladesh: A case study on efficiency of community health workers, automated risk assessment of patients and web based data collection, Working Paper for ICTD 2010 Conference, London

BRAC and Click Diagnostics 2009, Case Study for Incorportation of Mobile Technology in Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (Manoshi) Program at BRAC Health, Click Diagnostics, Lexington

Click Diagnostics 2009, Click's Solution for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH), 4 Nov. 2009 

[added Feb. 2010, updated 2011]

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