Mobile Health Based Best Wishes Program

Reduce birth defects and maternal and neonatal mortality

Project start date : 01/01/2015

Last updated : 16/03/2022

Beneficiary country : Nepal

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Mother and child health
  • Nutrition

Fields of application

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

Stage of development

  • Pilot project/testing/trials

Financing method

  • Private (private investors, crowdfunding, philanthropy, etc.)
  • NGO

Area where the project is utilised

  • Provincial/regional (in one region of a single country)

Economic model(s)

  • Donations

Target audience

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

Project objectives

  • Decreased mortality
  • Decreased morbidity

Materials used

  • Cellular (mobile) phone
  • Smartphone
  • Computer

Technologies used

  • Mobile telecommunications (without data connection)
  • Internet
  • Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)

Offline use

No

Open source

Yes

Open data

Yes

Independent evaluation

Yes, auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization

About the sponsor

Karuna Foundation Nepal

Karuna Foundation has been established in Nepal since 2015 and started to operated as a Nepalese NGO. The Foundation is registered at District Administration Office, Kathmandu as per the Organization Registration Act, 2034 B.S and has acquired all the necessary legal and administrative compliances.
Karuna Foundation Nepal aims to prevent avoidable disabilities among children and improve quality of lives of children and adults with disabilities and bring progressive changes in the lives of families at risk, developing evidence based scalable community models.

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

Country of origin :

Contact : Sponsor website Project website

Partners

  • Medic Mobile Pvt Ltd

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