Other Health products from Mezzanine:
AitaHealth | Stock Visibility Solution | eLABS | HealthX | Leap Communicator
Why
The need for social grant administration technology to assist in the efficient and accurate processing of social grant beneficiaries is becoming more and more apparent in the social services sector. The mandate of the Zambia Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) is to protect and promote the livelihoods and welfare of people suffering from poverty and deprivation. The MCDSS uses different instruments and programs to achieve its vision, one of which is the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) program (initiated in 2003 in Zambia). The SCT program is aimed at the most vulnerable households and the main objective is to reduce extreme poverty and intergenerational transfer of poverty among beneficiary households. Field workers, called enumerators, originally identified beneficiaries through a ‘high touch’ and paper-based enumeration process which had an 8-week feedback loop.
Cash Transfers are regular, non-contributory payments of money provided to individuals and households. The beneficiaries receive K70 and are paid bimonthly which amounts to K140 for every payment. Beneficiary households with persons with disabilities receive double transfers i.e. K280. This aims to fight poverty and hunger in Zambia’s most vulnerable communities.
The SCT has been subjected to extensive evaluation, and its impacts have been documented. Several positive impacts have been demonstrated to date, including reduced poverty, increased food security, improved child well-being, improved living conditions, and greater productivity and asset ownership.
In 2017, the MCDSS embarked on incorporating Mezzanine’s Mobile Technology capability into the registration and enumeration process to:
What
Enumerators use a mobile application to register households and determine their eligibility for a social cash transfer (government grant).
Where
The 1 200 Enumerators (mobile application users) went live on 25 May 2017 in all 108 districts of Zambia.
Data
From 2003 – 2016 the Ministry used a paper-based system to register and identify households eligible for a social grant. In 14 years they registered just over 242,000 households. After a year of using the SCT Registration mobile application, the Enumerators have registered over 520,000 households and 1,56 million individuals. There are 70 data points that are captured in the mobile application workflow and in total, the database already contains more than 50 million data points.
Other Health Products From Mezzanine
AitaHealth
Community Health Workers use AitaHealth to register, screen, flag, educate, refer, and schedule follow-up tasks for individuals in their area. Management uses the data to design and plan community health interventions and improve linkage to care for individual patients.
Stock Visibility Solution
Over 3,200 service points use SVS to digitise last-mile supply chain functions for critical services. SVS enables these facilities to participate in a networked supply chain where the right commodities are available at the right place and time without waste.
eLABS
Working with our clinical partner, Wits Diagnostic Innovation Hub, we use mobile technology to digitise laboratory value chains for critical services. eLABS helps reduce bottlenecks and inform proactive interventions to get lab results back to healthcare practitioners and patients sooner, enabling improved patient care.
HealthX
HealthX is a digital capability that enables enterprises (e.g., Health Programs, Donors, and Funders) to provide a beneficiary-centred workflow for relevant health and social services. Enterprises are able to proactively plan and deliver services based on beneficiary requirements and needs, enabling a responsive approach to healthcare delivery.
Leap Communicator
Provided through Amref, health workers register to participate in a digital learning community that uses basic mobile technology to disseminate, track, and manage distance learning objectives.
AitaHealth
Community Health Workers use AitaHealth to register, screen, flag, educate, refer, and schedule follow-up tasks for individuals in their area. Management uses the data to design and plan community health interventions and improve linkage to care for individual patients.
Stock Visibility Solution
Over 3,200 service points use SVS to digitise last-mile supply chain functions for critical services. SVS enables these facilities to participate in a networked supply chain where the right commodities are available at the right place and time without waste.
eLABS
Working with our clinical partner, Wits Diagnostic Innovation Hub, we use mobile technology to digitise laboratory value chains for critical services. eLABS helps reduce bottlenecks and inform proactive interventions to get lab results back to healthcare practitioners and patients sooner, enabling improved patient care.
HealthX
HealthX is a digital capability that enables enterprises (e.g., Health Programs, Donors, and Funders) to provide a beneficiary-centred workflow for relevant health and social services. Enterprises are able to proactively plan and deliver services based on beneficiary requirements and needs, enabling a responsive approach to healthcare delivery.
Leap Communicator
Provided through Amref, health workers register to participate in a digital learning community that uses basic mobile technology to disseminate, track, and manage distance learning objectives.
