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Identity in a Digital Age: Infrastructure for Inclusive Development - Identity in a Digital Age: Infrastructure for Inclusive Development offers guidance on how to address the systemic problems of today’s digital ID (DID) systems, while critically assessing how emerging technologies will shape the future of DID. MORE
Improving Health Communications in Kenya: A Feasibility Study on Engaging Frontline Healthcare Workers in Using Mobile Technology - The Internews Center for Innovation & Learning commissioned a study to explore the potential for community health workers and traditional birth attendants in Kenya to use an interactive mobile platform to improve the dissemination of health information in their communities. Internews’ Kenya office and the research team jointly determined two initial research sites to capture data from two MORE
Integrating Mobiles into Development Projects - The primary audience of this handbook is USAID staff, although much of the content is relevant to anyone interested in integrating mobiles into development projects more effectively. Most of the examples highlighted are from Southeast Asia, although the relevance of the content is global. Since the mobiles for development space is evolving rapidly, the handbook is intended to equip readers with a MORE
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage Using Data Analytics to Monitor Health Provider Payment Systems Toolkit - The Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) launched a new interactive toolkit, which offers step-by-step guidance on using data analytics to monitor heath provider payment systems and track whether payment systems are supporting health system objectives toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).An effective provider payment system is a critical stepping stone to MORE
K4Health mHealth Planning Guide - The mHealth Planning Guide helps individuals and organizations appropriately plan for mHealth deployments. This Guide provides a thorough orientation to the mHealth planning process for anyone looking to learn more about integrating mobile technology into health programs in low- and middle-income countries, outlines key considerations and resources for planning an mHealth intervention, from MORE
m-Enabled Inclusive Business Models: Applications for Health - The SHOPS project funded a 16-month study conducted by the Monitor Group as reported in Promise and Progress: Market-based Solutions to Poverty in Africa. The study identified mHealth (mobile applications for health) business models enabling enterprises to successfully engage with the poor in Africa, primarily in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. This primer aims to (1) highlight MORE
M4RH Cost Considerations - The cost of operating m4RH or a system like it will vary depending on the context. This one-pager explains the costing considerations for m4RH. Example inputs could be used for costing other programs. MORE
Making Content Meaningful: A Guide to Adapting Existing Global Health Content for Different Audiences - The abundance of openly accessible health content—from eLearning courses and multimedia resources to guidance documents and research papers—presents a remarkable opportunity for teaching, learning, and sharing. Open health content, however, is not sufficient by itself. It is important to provide it in the appropriate context and the language of the people who will use it. The Knowledge for Health MORE
MAMA Global Monitoring and Evaluation Framework - This framework is a guide for project implementers to help them develop national Monitoring and Evaluation plans to monitor and report on progress when implementing mobile messaging programs for mothers. Why it helps with planning: Comprehensive M&E example to support M&E strategy development. Provides an example theory of change model and ideas for data collection methods, key M MORE
MAMA Research Agenda - By sharing our research agenda and highlighting our current priorities and approaches to gathering evidence on the impact of our MAMA country, we hope to contribute to the global evidence base of mHealth messaging for improved MNCH.MAMA’s latest research studies are raising the bar – going beyond subscribers’ self-reported claims of change to using clinical data to verify changes in uptake of MORE
mBCC Field Guide: A Resource for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Programs - This resource helps users guide the design of mobile applications for health and provides insights about what works in mobile behavior change communication (mBCC). Compiled by Abt Associates, the guide examines what is known about the power of mobile communication tools to influence health behaviors for consumers and health care providers. Why it helps with planning: This is a planning MORE
mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) Toolkit - Developed by WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, the mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) Toolkit is a self-assessment tool designed to assist project teams in scaling up their mHealth innovations. The MAPS Toolkit aims to assist mHealth project teams to MORE
mHealth Data Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality: Guidelines for Program Implementers and Policymakers - mHealth technology comprises many layers that can affect data security, privacy, and confidentiality throughout the data life cycle. These layers include national and organizational policy; technology used in data collection, management, storage, and use; as well as user behavior. Each layer requires careful analysis to identify and protect potential vulnerabilities. The sensitivity of health data MORE
mHealth Evidence - mHealthEvidence.org is designed to bring together the world’s literature on mHealth effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and program efficiency. The database serves as the leading resource for cataloging and categorizing mHealth evidence. The site contains both peer-reviewed and grey literature on mHealth activities that are either proactively identified or included in the database based on MORE
mHealth Evidence Review and Assessment (mERA) checklist - Over the past decade, the global mobile phone revolution has inspired thousands of global health innovation projects. In order to overcome barriers in scaling-up programmes, clinicians and public health practitioners have been working with non-governmental organizations and governments to leverage the ubiquity of phones and connectivity across once-remote, rural populations. A major obstacle to MORE
mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health - This guide explains how mHealth serves newborn health through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHWs, CHW supervision, scheduling and tracking postpartum and postnatal visits, and teaching and counseling for mothers and families. Case studies are provided from Afghanistan, India, Malawi and Indonesia. Links to resources for planning, implementation, and evaluation MORE
Mobile for Development Impact - Mobile for Development Impact site offers data, analysis, and insights on mobile in emerging markets, to inform investment and design decisions and to support digital inclusion. Information includes:·An overview of which network operators are active in a country, and network coverage (2G, 3G or 4G) where available ·Details of Mobile for Development products and services within each country MORE
Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit - Mobile phones are much more than just a tool for making calls.Increasingly they are the primary way people across the world access the internet. Whilst the internet can provide a wide range of benefits to the user, it requires specific skills and knowledge to use a mobile phone effectively. This means that people who lack the skills and understanding are unable to access these life-enhancing MORE
Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium - Globally, 2.5 billion people are “unbanked,” lacking access to formal financial services. As a result, roughly one third of the world’s population is forced to rely on cash transactions or informal financial systems, which can often be unsafe, inconvenient, and expensive. Among the unbanked, however, a billion have access to a mobile phone, and mobile-based financial services are MORE
Mobile Money for Health white paper - Mobile money enables funds to be deposited, transferred, and withdrawn electronically through mobile phone accounts. Fueled by the success of Kenya’s M-Pesa mobile payment platform, mobile money is a rapidly growing alternative to cash in developing countries. Whereas mobile money services have been launched in more than 70 countries with the majority of current deployments in sub-Saharan MORE
Mobile Phones are Transforming Africa - DRIVE a few miles from the centre of Accra, the capital of Ghana, into the neat rows of houses that surround it and the paved roads disappear almost as quickly as the phone lines. Yet this has not dented the ambitions of Kwami Williams, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who is building a business processing moringa trees and exporting the resulting tea and cosmetic oils MORE
Mobile Technology Handbook - This handbook is a comprehensive resource for getting started with mobile data collection. It provides guidance on how to develop a mobile data collection strategy, how to compare and select mobile platforms, and case studies on how mobile technology has been used for data collection in development programs. You can use the handbook as a reference or make it the foundation for a workshop to spread MORE
Mobile Technology in Support of Frontline Health Workers: A comprehensive overview of the landscape, knowledge gaps and future directions - Mobile Technology in Support of Frontline Health Workers: A comprehensive overview of the landscape, knowledge gaps and future directions. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are rapidly gaining popularity for their potential to improve public health, and many developing countries see them as an important resource for frontline health workers MORE
Mobiles for Quality Improvement Pilot in Uganda - SHOPS‘ partners Abt Associates, Jhpiego, and Marie Stopes International (MSI), collaborated in a mobile learning and performance support pilot called Mobiles for Quality Improvement (m4QI) conducted in Uganda during the period September 2010–August 2011. The goal of m4QI was to demonstrate the potential for positive behavioral change in service delivery by reinforcing face-to-face induction MORE
Mutual Value, Mutual Gain: Best Practices from Successful Social Sector Partnerships with Mobile Network Operators - For operators to take advantage of the revenue potential found in underserved communities in emerging markets, the formation of efficient and effective partnerships between operators and social sector organizations that have long-standing networks and expertise in serving rural and marginalized populations is crucial. This Insights paper details best practices in pursuing, negotiating, designing MORE