mHealth Ecosystem Partnership

Increasing access to healthcare for vulnerable women and children under the age of 5 across Africa, while providing the delivery mechanism for mHealth services that are commercially sustainable and scalable

Ecosystem-Partnership

To further the goals of mNutrition, the mHealth programme has created a large-scale non-exclusive mHealth ecosystem partnership, designed to provide a range of mHealth services to women and children under the age of 5, with a particular focus on nutrition, across Sub-Saharan Africa. This programme could have far-reaching impact; according to GSMA Intelligence there is a total annual, addressable market of 11.24 million pregnant women and mothers with children under five years of age*.

The initiative is in direct support of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6. The initiative is also closely aligned to the UN’s Every Woman Every Child Initiative, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) and the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact.

The partnership will reduce barriers to handset ownership and connectivity for consumers and community health workers by committing to:

  • Discounted handsets and tablets
  • Significantly discounted or free access to health content, health registration and data collection via existing and new SIM cards, SMS, USSD and data channels
  • Customised configuration for both consumers and health workers
  • Associated mobile money, advertising and billing capabilities
  • Affordable mobile integration of innovative diagnostics
  • Country and region specific customization and localisation
  • Increased data sharing between services
  • Joint PR and marketing to drive demand generation

Phase I will see the launch of services in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and phase 2 will address Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.

It is our intention to encourage cross-sector partnerships with all industry stakeholders in both the public and private arena in order to leverage new or existing initiatives and resources.

Current mobile operator partners:

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CONTACT US

The GSMA welcomes engagement from potential new partners, who have immediate capability to contribute to and leverage the important large-scale commitments made by the current partners.

Contact us to learn more about how your organisation can engage with the objectives of the mHealth ecosystem partnership.

 

*Source: WHO 2012, World Bank, GSMAi. Total number of pregnant women and mothers with children under five, adjusted for % of unique mobile subscribers, adjusted for % of literacy and adjusted for HIV prevalence.