TIST: Rising carbon price enables more rapid growth of TIST tree growing in Africa and India
Growth of TIST’s pro-poor tree growing activities in sub-Saharan Africa and India has been held back in the past by the low price paid in the informal carbon market for its “high quality” carbon credits. The greater recent awareness of the need to act to address climate change has led to a large increase in 2020 in the price paid to purchase TIST’s carbon credits. The resulting increase in resources has enabled TIST to adopt a more ambitious expansion plan aimed at substantial further increases in the currently 90,000 farmer beneficiaries and the currently 18 million trees grown.
Jacaranda Health reaching the last mile of under-immunized infants through tech-enabled immunization tracking
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Immunization is one of the greatest global health success stories, achieving significant gains in driving down rates of child mortality worldwide. Yet against this backdrop of success a major data challenge emerges; namely how to identify underimmunized infants when coverage is already high… Generating high-frequency, real-time data on where, when and how to reach the last mile of underimmunized children is a low-cost, scalable approach to closing the immunization gap, ensuring all infants receive their full dose of vaccines as a basic human right. PROMPTS, Jacaranda's digital health platform serving 800K+ mums and babies across Kenya, is also being used to improve immunization, and identify geographic hotspots of weak immunization across 15 counties. Building on its two-way messaging and data collection capabilities, PROMPTS sends mums information about immunization, reminders for when to take their babies for vaccination, and asks questions about adverse events (like a fever or headache) following immunization - a common factor to vaccine hesitancy. Mums will be asked; ‘Have you taken your baby for its week 6 vaccination?’. If she replies ‘no’, the next question is ‘why?’. This follow-up is critical. Responses from mums are relayed to our government partners, who are then equipped to address barriers like stock-outs or lack of transport to facilities, improving immunization coverage in a resource-efficient way. EfD are pleased to have supported Jacaranda's PROMPTS initiative and their government partnerships initiative. |
Jacaranda's Tech and the path to operational scale-up - Three ways technology is helping us reach more mums and providers
Simple technology has the power to radically transform care models for patients and providers, and for health organizations like Jacaranda, its use in building robust, operationally-effective systems at scale can’t be underestimated…
Thanks to tech-enabled data collection, PROMPTS Helpdesk Manager Angela Juma has greater visibility on where and how to make improvements to the helpdesk, connecting more mums to care - faster.
Simple technology has the power to radically transform care models for patients and providers, and for health organizations like Jacaranda, its use in building robust, operationally-effective systems at scale can’t be underestimated. As they continue to test, build, and adapt their solutions to reach more mums and nurses, their program teams are asking converging questions around efficiency versus scale, namely; ‘how do we make accessing our tools easier?’, ‘how do we maintain their quality at scale?’, and ‘how do we ensure our program teams continue to innovate whilst responding to increased numbers?’. The answer - in part - lies in tech, which helps scale quality interventions faster by reducing barriers to uptake, saving time and human error, and generating data to help Jacaranda see where and how to improve.
Jacaranda save lives by updating their simple and replicable low cost technology tool to find and track emergency blood sources.
Jacaranda are cutting operational bottlenecks using low cost technologies to provide real time tracking to source blood supplies by type and number of units preventing postpartum hemorrhage deaths (excessive bleeding after delivery), the most common cause of maternal death in SSA.
By empowering providers with real-time information, Jacaranda are helping limit the unnecessary, life-threatening delays in clinical emergencies - giving medics more time to do what they do best; getting people better. Read how Jacaranda are using the potential of digital technologies to radically shift models of care and bring powerful new tools to patients and providers here
Jacaranda Health selected to join Google's AI for Social Good Program!
Jacaranda are excited to be one of the top 30 projects from over 17 countries across Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa to join the Google AI for Social Good program. They will be working with Dr. Amulya Yadav at Penn State University to expand upon their AI tools that triage and predict risk for mothers on their PROMPTS platform. Read more about AI for Social Good here
Jacaranda's Momentous Milestones!
Over 500,000 mothers and families reached through PROMPTS!
In Kenya over 33% of the maternal deaths are caused by delays in seeking care. Mothers need to be empowered to seek care at the right time and place. Since 2017, the PROMPTS team has been working hand-in-hand with county government teams to reach as many moms and families as possible, to equip them with tips and information to increase care-seeking during and after pregnancy. This year we crossed the milestone of half a million mothers on PROMPTS. PROMPTS has driven a 20% increase in mothers seeking antenatal care at government hospitals, mothers are twice as likely to take up family planning during the postpartum period, and 83% of mothers who are asked to seek additional care go to the hospital. County governments have begun to share in the costs of PROMPTS.
Q2 2021 DATA OVERVIEW
15 Number of counties enrolled since 2017
357 In-facility mentors trained under EMONC Mentorship Program
25 MILLION Messages sent to Mums since 2017
580 Facilities enrolled since 2018
527,333 PROMPTS Enrollments to date
127,765 Enrollments in Q2, 2021