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 (FHW). However, best practices for implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of programs and projects is lacking. This report summarizes current data from over 140 FHW-supported mHealth projects from developing countries to describe the emergent trends and best practices in the use of mobile phones, tablets, and technical platforms by FHWs over the last decade, understand the key considerations in choosing the type pf phone and platform and associated programmatic costs, present the evidence on the effectiveness of mobile approaches, and establish a framework for systematically deploying such tools.
Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Monitoring in Indonesia (IDS Evidence Report 2016)
Routine growth monitoring is a common practice that aims to: detect children at risk of malnutrition; direct essential resources when children have growth faltering; track nutrition trends; determine eligibility for counselling and other specific services; and help to make child malnutrition more visible to the child’s caregivers, the community and government.
The quality and usefulness of growth monitoring is often limited by poor data quality, long delays between data collection and dissemination that prevent timely response, and shortcomings in the interpretation and use of the data. The full potential of growth monitoring is often underused both to increase knowledge and improve practices at community level and to inform decision-making for better nutrition.
The use of mobile phone technology may offer innovative opportunities to strengthen community-based growth monitoring and make it more effective for tackling child malnutrition. Despite global enthusiasm for using mobile phones for nutrition monitoring and surveillance systems, there are only very few studies that have critically assessed their application. Together with World Vision Indonesia and World Vision Canada, the Institute of Development Studies aimed to fill this evidence gap and evaluate the piloting of a mobile phone application for community-based growth monitoring.
Use of mobile phones by the rural poor: gender perspectives from selected Asian countries (FAO, IRCD and LIRNEasia 2016)
Mobile phones have been shown (though not uniformly) to positively contribute in various ways to rural development, from reducing information asymmetry, improving functional networks, to increasing access to services and finance. Yet a digital gender divide exists. When contrasted with the fact that women compromise 43% of the worlds’ agricultural labor force, this digital gender divide can inhibit rural development. There is substantial exploration of the digital gender divide in the literature. Yet the answers to questions regarding differential access and use of information and communication technologies are mostly inconclusive.
This study tries identify the information needs of the rural poor with gender dissagregated statistics.
The mAgri Design Toolkit User-centered design for mobile agriculture (GSMA 2016)
The mAgri Design Toolkit is a collection of instructions, tools, and stories to help develop and scale mobile agriculture products by applying a user-centered design approach.
Many mAgri services that have launched in emerging markets have suffered from low user adoption, despite coming from leading mobile network operators and value-added service (VAS) providers. This toolkit is one of the outcomes of a partnership between the GSMA mAgri Programme and frog, and provides operational guidance on how to bring the user-centred design approach into the product development process to better connect mAgri services with the needs of farmers and other key actors in the ecosystem.
ICT4Refugees: A report on the emerging landscape of digital responses to the refugee crisis (GIZ 2016)
This report is a result of a collaboration between BMZ, GIZ, betterplace lab and Kiron institutions which share the view that the current phenomenon of “ICT for refugees” is novel and has
great potential that should be investigated.
Drawing on field and desk research, this report aims to give an introductory navigation to, and interpretation of current developments. It shall capture the breadth of different areas where technology can create impact, of varying local contexts, and of actors involved. This report does not provide a comprehensive review, and a thorough discussion of assessment and effectiveness is also beyond the scope of this research. Rather it aims to understand current developments, high – light important areas of potential and contribute to a discussion about the opportunities and risks involved.
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