Description of Session
In 2018, Medic Mobile launched the Community Health Toolkit as a global good with the goal of scaling software to advance Universal Health Coverage and Care. The Toolkit is intended to help community health care systems rapidly adopt ready-to-scale technologies and strategies, and provide a platform for new technologies, applications, and approaches. It’s a collection of open source technologies; open access design, technical, and implementer resources; and a community of practice for the precision global health community. With this approach, and sustainability in mind the constant challenge of scaling technology solutions, there is an emerging need to build the internal capacity of implementers and technical organizations. to design, build and deploy these tools in their organizations. Over the last year, we have been in the process of creating and sharing open source documentation for human-centered design capacity building and technical capacity building. Capacity building services might include basic on-boarding / orientation on CHT using a curriculum-based training approach with set content, an in-depth training- building further on the basic training and adapting the set training content for a specific context/project, co-design / co-development - delivering curriculum-based training and providing hand-holding to the partner on how to use the tools. We will talk about the format we have created to better transfer this knowledge to everyone regardless of the role they have in the organization. This curriculum, that emphasizes on deploying m-Health tools in the Community Health Toolkit, is structured for and can be used for training TOTs in various contexts especially for non designers. It has been tested with two partners in the Africa region so far.
