Thanks so much to WSBTV for covering our Scale X Design Challenge events in Atlanta! Check out Cohort 3 Teams U-ME Capital and TESFA practicing their pitch and sharing their work with local journalists!
Scale X Design in the News!
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Check out our Scale X Design Challenge 2019!
We were thrilled and honored to have the 3rd annual Scale X Design Challenge last night at Turner Studios in Atlanta! Congrats to team aGap for taking home the grand prize!
In case you missed it, check out five of our amazing teams pitch! And thanks to our sponsors: Delta Airlines, Fiserv, Turner Studios, Salesforce and Western Union Foundation!
Circles of Change in Shondaland
Did you catch Cohort 2 Alum, Iman El-Mahdi, in Shondaland? ( the pioneering storytelling company behind many television series including “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”) Congrats to Circles of Change on the amazing attention you’re bringing to CARE’s work! Read the story here: https://www.shondaland.com/act/a21239255/timesup-metoo-and-the-global-movement-for-womens-rights/
Inspiring films tell the story of frontline health workers in Bihar
We’re excited to see new resources from the Bihar team!
A collaborative storytelling project from Bihar
Two short and powerful films document the Bihar Technical Support Program, a partnership between CARE the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Government of Bihar to improve the quality of care and health system in Bihar, India. Through two films you will be inspired by the story of Manju Devi, a frontline health worker in Bihar, working to save lives by delivering maternal and child health care in her village; and in the second film you will be transported to Bihar to learn how CARE and the Government of Bihar are reducing rates of maternal, newborn, and child mortality and malnutrition, and improving reproductive health services statewide. Watch the films here: bihar.care.org
Innovation Briefs: Bihar Innovations
New briefs highlight five innovations being taken to scale in Bihar, India and beyond, Including Team-based Goals and Incentives. CARE has developed and implemented a package of evidence-based, quality innovations that seek to address the various issues which impede access to high-quality services in Bihar. The implementation of these innovations have resulted in successful outcomes and improvement in the health system – so significant that the Government of Bihar began to scale several of the innovations to all 38 districts in the state, and some of the innovations are scaling nationally. Find all five briefs at bihar.care.org.
Click here to read the Team-Based Goals and Incentives brief
New results for the Community Scorecard!
Congrats to the Community Scorecard team on their new journal article in BMC Health Services Research! Frontline Health Workers Coalition Blog published a quick review of the results:
“CARE’s theory of change posits that the empowerment of community members and frontline health
workers—where they feel comfortable advocating for their rights—plus the creation of space for power-holders, health workers, and community members to talk and interact in a safe, supportive, and equitable environment, leads to improved health outcomes. To test this, a research team conducted an evaluation in Malawi to analyze the effect of the CSC on a set of governance measures, including trust in health workers, power sharing, mutual responsibility, and collective efficacy.
The team found significant relationships between those who actively used the scorecard and perceptions of equity and quality of their discussions. They also found positive relationships with governance measures of actions resulting from the process, such as joint monitoring and transparency, collective action, and availability of community help.
“Active participation in the CSC ensures a safe, inclusive space to voice concerns and work together to improve health services and outcomes,” explained Sara Gullo, lead author of the article.
CARE Malawi’s Thumbiko Msiska agrees. “CSC enhances engagement of various stakeholders, especially rights-holders, and brings their perspectives into the conversations, clarifying expectations and promoting ownership.”
Read the full post by CARE staffer, April Houston here:
And the published paper here: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-3651-3
Chomoka launches this month!
The Chomoka team (Cohort 1) reached an important milestone this month with the onboarding of VSLA groups
to start using the smartphone application for their weekly meetings. The team has been working diligently with the developers to test the application and fix bugs to create a stable version of the application that can be rolled out to a wider audience of groups. The team has 100 groups who have pre-registered for Chomoka in the Dar es Salaam area who will start using the application in the coming weeks and months. While the process has taken longer than the team hoped, they were determined to get the product right, using lean experimentation and human-centered design, so that customers have a positive first experience with Chomoka and word of mouth in communities drives demand. The team has 10 Chomoka Agents who have been trained and will be leading the on-boarding of the application with targeted VSLA groups from now into the new year. Check out how the app functions below! (The narration is in Swahili but the screen by screen navigation is in English!)