DAY 1: DECEMBER 17, 2014

Registration of delegates & participants

This session gives an overview of the objectives of Consultation and the expectations from the deliberations. It sets the context and background to the Consultation.

• Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Government of Telangana
• Commissioner Health and Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh

STATUS OVERVIEW: MOBILE REACH, ACCESS, USE AND  POTENTIAL

Presentation on the reach/penetration of mobile phones among various strata of population in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. It will reflect on mobile penetration trends, specifically in urban and rural regions, and among male, female, youth, and adolescents.

LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCES: USE OF MOBILE PHONES FOR 1) INFORMATION DISSEMINATION & 2) MONITORING/TRACKING TO ENHANCE ACCOUNTABILITY 3) SKILL SUPPORT TO FRONTLINE WORKERS & INTER PERSONAL COMMUNICATION  (IPC)

This session will have case studies on the use of mobile phones for information dissemination and monitoring/ tracking and training/support (including being a job aid) for frontline workers and for inter personal communication (IPC) with women and other stakeholders on health, child nutrition, water and sanitation and education issues.  The Session will be divided into three groups as per the following categories of state departments – Health & Nutrition; Rural Development and Planning Department. Each group will have two case-study presenters and have stakeholders from respective department and other participants. Each case presenter will have 5 minutes to discuss about their practice. After case-presentations, the group will have 45 minutes to discuss regarding each case-study. Each group will have group work leader/anchor to note down the discussion points. Each group will review the case-studies, deliberate on the following key questions and group leader will report back in plenary and share the recommendation points:

• What is happening in your department/sector in the use of mobile phones
• List 3-4 key learnings from the case-presentations that can enhance the work in your sector – on the use of mobile phones for tracking/enhancing accountability, information dissemination and supporting frontline workers.
• Which are the most applicable case-study/project/practice as per theme of the group and that can be scaled state-wide?
• Identify the key support, partnerships required for the scale up – in terms of improvisation/development needs, training needs, piloting and monitoring.
• Define the immediate next steps or actions needed for the roll out/scale up.

This group work will also be presented during the Plenary session on Next Steps and Way Forward on the following day

The Practice is to drive community-led change in the public health system by enhancing its planning and monitoring capacity by utilizing a low cost technology, IVRS (Interactive Voices Response System)

By: Basavaraju R, Executive Director, Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement

SMART Health India; By: The George Institute for Global Health and the University of Oxford; Location: Andhra Pradesh

The Practice is software algorithms that can be loaded onto smartphones and tablet devices to enable the real-time analysis of personal medical information and the provision of clinical decision-making support.

By: D Praveen, Senior Research Fellow, Research and Development, The George Institute for Global Health

GROUP 1.2: RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Mobile Application for Anganwadis (MAA); By: NIC; Location: Andhra Pradesh

By: K. Raja Sekhar, NIC

The practice empowers anganwadi workers in indenting foods, reporting daily the supplementary nutrition beneficiary attendance, pre-school education attendance of children, immunization details of beneficiaries, and women to monitor IMR and MMR, and supervisors’ field inspection reports.

MOTHER; By: NHM Andhra Pradesh and CDAC AP, Location: Srikakulum, Andhra Pradesh

The Practice ‘MOTHER’ is a mobile based system for providing maternal health related information directly to the pregnant and lactating women through voice call alerts in Telugu. Registered beneficiaries will receive customized, pre-recorded health advices in Telugu, in their mobiles, specific to their health condition

By: S.V. Srikanth, Project Leader, Ubiquitous Computing Research Centre (UCRC), C-DAC Hyderabad

GROUP 1.3: PLANNING DEPARTMENT

The Project brings in a digital PKI enabled integrated architecture through multiple service delivery points by fusing in the various pre-existing state initiatives with the Mission-mode Projects like State Data Center (SDC), State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Common Service centers (CSCs) of the National eGovernance Plan (NeGP) of Government of India.

By: Yedukondalu. Kumpati, Dy. Director (Technical), O/o Director, Electronic Service Delivery, ITE&C Department, Government of Telangana

1. Recommendation & action points from health and nutrition
2. Recommendation & action points from rural development
3. Recommendation & action points from planning department

• Role of ‘Value Added Services’ in use of mobile phones for monitoring and tracking for enhancing accountabilities
• Role of mobile service providers in the use of mobile phones for information dissemination
• Role of telecom provider in the use of mobile phones for train/support of frontline workers

The Practice provides a tool to frontline workers to help them engage with mothers or community members

By: Seema Kumar, C4D Specialist UNICEF

Mobile for Mother; By: NEEDS; Location: Jharkhand

The practice delivers educational and health care information services and allows data to be shared between Community Health Workers (CHWs).

By Osama Manzar, Director, DEF

UNICEF will finally sum up the session with a set of recommendations pertaining to the session. Moderator will have presentation to sum up the session by sharing their experiences and recommendation points pertaining to the session.