Innovations for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, an initiative of Concern Worldwide U.S., pilots creative solutions for improving the survival and health of women, babies and children. Innovations is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

For nearly 50 years, Concern Worldwide has worked with the world’s poorest people to transform their lives. We have been at the forefront of engineering transformative approaches to malnutrition, maternal and child health care, mobile cash transfers, disaster recovery, climate change resilience and more. We reach nearly 7 million people in 29 countries.

for maternal, newborn& child health

| GHANA

| KENYA

CHN ON THE GO

Equips Community Health Nurses with a smartphone app designed with and for these frontline health workers who visit rural pregnant mothers and newborns. The app offers immediate diagnostic support, accredited e-learning courses, tools for planning targets such as the number of children to immunize, and WhatsApp groups to connect nurses to peers and supervisors. Partners include Grameen Foundation and Ghana Health Service.

INNOVATIONS

Improves health behaviors in remote communities with high maternal and newborn deaths rates through robust messaging for women and those who influence their decisions, such as husbands and elders, and rewards communities that change with a water pump or emergency vehicle. The program aims to make facility deliveries, exclusive breastfeeding and other improved maternal and newborn health practices the social norm.

Develops a health planning tool that uses computer modeling to determine ideal locations for ambulances and static and mobile emergency obstetric and neonatal care clinics.

COMMUNITY BENEFITS HEALTH

MOBILE URGENT MATERNITY SERVICE “MUM”

| GHANA

OUR PROGRAMS

| SIERRA LEONE

| KENYA

PHASE 1 PILOTSInnovations completed four Phase I pilots that addressed maternal and child health gaps in the health system. The most successful, a toll-free hotline plus automated tips and reminders for expectant and new mothers called Chipatala Cha Pa Foni, is scaling up in Malawi.

ESSENTIAL NEWBORN CARE CORPS

Trains and rebrands traditional birth attendants, who used to assist home deliveries, to counsel pregnant and new mothers at home and refer them to health centers for care, deliveries and family planning. To incentivize their new government-recognized roles, the now-called Maternal Newborn Health Promoters earn income as social entrepreneurs selling health and baby products to the mothers they visit.

Designs low-cost, high quality medical devices for Kenya’s maternity wards where functioning equipment is scarce. In this unique partnership, engineering staff and students from the University of Nairobi and nurses from Kenyatta National Hospital co-design the devices. Maker, UNICEF and Philips Foundation recently launched a partnership in Kenya to design devices locally for women and children.

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OUR APPROACH › Tap diverse methods, including mobile health, social entrepreneurship and behavior change

› Partner creatively and purposefully with NGOs, multilaterals and companies

› Employ user-centered design by collaborating with users to design and continuously improve our programs

› Pursue opportunities for new markets, new products and shared value

› Rigorously monitor and evaluate, then share results

› Replicate, adapt and scale pilots that prove successful

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