Safe Delivery App

Empowering skilled birth attendants to provide a safer birth for mothers and newborns everywhere and improving quality of care

Project start date : 01/05/2015

Beneficiary country : Afghanistan Bangladesh Benin Cambodia Ethiopia Ghana Guinea India Iraq Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) Myanmar Papua New Guinea Philippines (the) Rwanda Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Syrian Arab Republic Tanzania, United Republic of Togo Ukraine Zambia

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Mother and child health

Fields of application

  • Health professional training

Stage of development

  • Routine project/operational

Financing method

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

Area where the project is utilised

  • International (in several countries)

Economic model(s)

  • Donations

Target audience

  • Healthcare professionals and structures (hospitals, healthcare centres/clinics, health networks)

Project objectives

  • Decreased mortality
  • Decreased morbidity
  • Reduced suffering
  • Improved treatment

Materials used

  • Cellular (mobile) phone
  • Smartphone
  • Tablet

Technologies used

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

About the sponsor

Maternity Foundation

Maternity Foundation is a Danish NGO that works to improve maternal and newborn health. They develop and integrate scalable programs and digital solutions that empower birth attendants, pregnant women and new mothers in low and middle income countries. They envision a world where no woman or newborn suffers preventable disease or death related to pregnancy or childbirth.

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

Country of origin : Denmark

Contact : Sponsor website Project website

Offline use

Yes

Open source

No

Open data

No

Independent evaluation

Yes, auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization

Partners

  • UNFPA

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

  • Ethiopian Midwives Association

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • Ministry of Health

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

  • Department of Training and Research

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • Laos

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • OBGYN Association Laos

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • Copenhagen University

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • University of Southern Denmark

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière

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

  • Laerdal

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

  • World Bank

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

  • jhpiego

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • UNICEF

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

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • USAID

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

  • Danish Red Cross

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

  • GIZ

    Other

  • Care International

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

  • The Andres Soriano Foundation

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)