2016 ICT4D Conference

World Vision's AIM Health project funded by Irish Aid through the Ireland office uses the timed and targeted Counseling (ttC) strategy through a MoTECH suite enabled mHealth application to improve maternal and newborn and child health. The mHealth project with support from World Vision US has outfitted CHWs with MoTECH suite ttC application enabled s devices to address MNCH issues in the project catchment area. The scale of the mHealth deployment is one of the largest in Uganda with over 896 CHWs. Results forthcoming overtime are indicative of the good progress and potential impact of the solution as an efficient, quality guaranteeing resource for community health system  strengthening.
At this forum we shall share with the august audience the structural and infrastructural challenges and looming gaps encountered in piloting and rolling out an ICT4D mHealth intervention and how we have managed to harness result amidst these challenges. We will share success and what this success looks like in the face ideal ICT4D implementation logic. We will delve into resourcing and planning needs, stakeholder engagements with MoH and other partners to address alignment to national strategy and systematic and strategic integration for sustainability including other opportunities for scaling. We will share practices adopted and adapted at nation level to guarantee results as we seek to use this opportunity to learn from the wealth of knowledge present at the forum.