SECTOR
Nutrition Programs
Malnutrition is disproportionately prevalent in poor, rural regions and developing countries. Nutrition efforts are often coordinated via large, integrated paper-based systems, and often lack real-time data.
Mobile technology can overcome these problems and support these nutrition programs, such as Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP), Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), and Positive Deviance/Hearth (PD/H).
CommCare tracks 10% of malnourished children in India, and 1 in 50 malnourished children in world. Platform helps programs diagnose problems 41% faster than paper tools, so community health workers spend more time registering new patients and administering better care to the ones they have.
Benefits of Mobile Data Collection in Nutrition Programs
Case management and registration enables patients to be easily tracked across multiple visits, facilitating a continuum of personalized care.
Complex anthropometric calculations (e.g. weight-for-age tables) automatically simplify community health workers’ workflows based on the data collected.
Mobile apps support real-time data collection both online and offline, enabling programs to provide immediate feedback based on the data collected.
Case sharing capabilities enable multiple CMAM sites to track specific children through to completion of nutritional rehabilitation programs.
Data validations and display conditions, or skip logic, both reduce time spent and increase the accuracy and completeness of data collection at the point of entry.
Multimedia-enabled behavior change messaging engage patients with positive health practices and notifies them of the availability of local nutritional programs.
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Featured CommCare-Based Nutrition Programs
Dimagi Nutrition Solution Built on CommCare
DNS, the nutrition solution built on CommCare, is successfully empowering Community Health Workers (CHWs) to address the critical issue of maternal and child nutrition. With 1.62 billion people worldwide suffering from anemia, 149 million children under the age of five being stunted, and 21 million children born with low birth weight each year, the need for effective interventions is evident. CHWs utilize DNS to track growth trends, distribute take-home rations, monitor immunizations, and address anemia and stunting. By leveraging this tool, CHWs are improving the health outcomes of communities and contributing to the broader goal of enhanced demographic dividends.
Integrated Child Development Services | India
Dimagi collaborated with the Government of India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) to implement the Common Application Software (ICDS CAS) in 2018. This project equipped frontline workers with a mobile solution, enhancing service delivery, enabling effective monitoring, facilitating interventions, and providing decision support. These efforts played a significant role in combating malnutrition within the ICDS program, known as the world’s largest public health and nutrition initiative.
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Hear from Customers using CommCare to Improve their Frontline Program Performance
Cure Violence Global
“CommCare is a mission-critical, strategic platform for us. We have been able to turn data into a strategic advantage, showcasing our impact and driving funding.”
- Dr. Charles Elliott, Director of Data Management
Catholic Relief Services
“We use CommCare extensively to design data collection tools for both development and humanitarian contexts, appreciating its flexibility for both one-off surveys and case management.”
- Nora Lindström, Senior Director, ICT4D
MHP Salud
“CommCare has allowed us to really streamline the data collection process. CHWs find it easy to capture critical information in the moment with families.”
- Dr Maggie Dante, CEO
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