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Reducing Maternal Mortality Rates and Infant Mortality Ratios

Project start date : 10/01/2013

Last updated : 04/09/2023

Beneficiary country : Afghanistan Ethiopia Ghana India Nigeria Rwanda Uganda

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Mother and child health
  • Primary healthcare
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Vaccination

Fields of application

  • Information, education and communication for behaviour change (IEC)
  • Patient monitoring and medical data

Stage of development

  • Routine project/operational

Financing method

  • Public (grant/subsidies, call for proposals/call for tender, etc.)
  • Private (private investors, crowdfunding, philanthropy, etc.)
  • NGO
  • Government agency (USAID, etc.)
  • Intergovernmental or international agency

Area where the project is utilised

  • International (in several countries)

Economic model(s)

  • Subsidies
  • Advertising
  • Donations

Target audience

  • Pregnant women
  • Young children (0-5 years)

Project objectives

  • Decreased mortality
  • Decreased morbidity
  • Other (please explain)

Materials used

  • Smartphone
  • Tablet
  • Connected objects

Technologies used

  • Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)

Offline use

Yes

Open source

Yes

Open data

Yes

Independent evaluation

Yes, auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization

About the sponsor

ZMQ

ZMQ is a “Technology for Development” social enterprise, which create practical technology linked tools [&] solutions to empower communities by providing timely information and connecting them with life-saving services, thus achieving sustainable development. There is a huge gap in provisioning information and services to rural, under-privileged and isolated communities. And this has been for hundreds of years. With the advent of technology, especially, it is seen that these technologies can bring in transformative changes by substantially improving accessibility, affordability and effectiveness of social programs, thus enabling human development. ZMQ’s theory of change is to provide “information [&] services” to isolated, marginalized and rural communities in a timely and accessible way, which often makes difference between life and death.

Sector : Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)

Country of origin : India

Contact : Sponsor website Project website

Partners

  • ZMQ Technologies

    Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

  • Mewat SHGs

    Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)

  • Health Child

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • Afghan Institute of Learning

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • USAID

    Other

  • UKAid

    Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)

  • Microsoft

    Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

  • The Vodafone Foundation

    Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)

  • Yale University

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • Nokia

    Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

  • Airtel

    Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

  • The Millenium Alliance

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)