safer motherhood versus covid-19

this project improves and gives easy, rapid and efficient access to maternal health care, essentially reducing the rate of death at birth.
This project offers local means a series of techniques aimed at combating dependence on traditional practices of complex supply of unapproved, slow, unreliable and costly drugs which weaken access to maternal health care, this projects also improves shorter transportation time and reduced supply and storage costs of covid-19 drugs and prevention kits and responses, increased flexibility in providing products tailored to local needs in lower risk maternity to the covid-19 realities. preferences and loyalty of local communities to modern practices of the protection of motherhood for less in the period of Covid-19.

Our approach differs slightly from that of existing health facilities but is in line with the required safety and security standards. Our digital library will contain a range of lower-risk maternity solutions to covid-19s that facilitate diagnosis, access to medication, surgery and assistance that support maternal health care for vulnerable and difficult populations. to reach.

We strive to design a pregnancy follow-up plan to require no post-treatment, to be life-saving or life-enhancing through high-quality, safe, user-friendly
care, lower risk, lower cost and lasting for low-resource populations

Our solution aims to strengthen safer motherhood in the face of covid-19 maternal health care for:

80 million people who do not have access to safe, timely and affordable surgical care
4 million people without access to maternal health care
3 million people living in rural areas who often lack access to maternal health services
10 million people without access to covid-19 information
More than 10 Miles of disabled people who often do not have access to safe motherhood facing
Nearly a billion people living on less than $ 2 a day

The problem of maternal and child mortality at birth during this Covid-19 period is increasingly becoming a factor that impedes access to health care in safer motherhood because the necessary inputs for prevention, response and management of Corona virus diseases are hitherto absent, our solution strengthens access to maternal sensory care by making available information and inputs for mother and child care in this period of Covid-19 for the target population while everyone is afraid of this plague.

Our approach differs slightly from that of existing health facilities but is in line with the required safety and security standards. Our digital library will contain a range of lower-risk maternity solutions to covid-19s that facilitate diagnosis, access to medication, surgery and assistance that support maternal health care for vulnerable and difficult populations. to reach. We strive to design a pregnancy follow-up plan to require no post-treatment, to be life-saving or life-enhancing through high quality, safe, user-friendly care, lower risk, lower cost and lasting for low-resource populations.

A core component of our solution will be the use of mobile phones

application.  We intend to ensure that all the registered pregnant
mothers in the refugees Settlements and host communities are provided
with user friendly mobile phones.  These phones will be registered at
the lower primary health facilities and shall be configured to show the
identity, time,location, name of the pregnant mothers  when they make
makes calls. The phones shall be toll free allowing pregnant mothers to
make calls without limitations to the health workers and the smart
antenatal mobile health teams when in need of their services. There will
be health information systems at the primary health facilities in the
refugees and host communities that capture detailed data from pregnant
mothers in the settlements and relay or transcribe into the district
health information systems.  Database from different pregnant mothers in
the refugees settlement will therefore be generated and transmitted
according to the district health information database. Therefore mobile
phones will primarily be used by the pregnant mothers to access 
essential reproductive health services when they need them, be able to
follow ANC/MCH schedules for routine antenatal care and be able to
interface with a health worker and village health teams during tracking
and monitoring compliance  to reproductive health services by pregnant
mothers. At the same time, the data  will be used to provide health
information regarding maternal and child health in the refugees hosting
districts.

Globally, there are an estimated 5.7 billion unique individual mobile
phone subscribers, with significant continued growth in LMIC (Ericson, 2019).

There is increase hope that mobile phone technology will assist in
overcoming barriers to health system functioning and service delivery

and many developing countries are integrating m-Health components
(Labrique et al, 2013). m-Health is used to refer collectively to the
use of mobile technology for health-related functions, including data
collection and management, service delivery, health communication and
diagnostics (WHO, 2019). Despite this growth, heterogeneity of m-Health
study designs and contexts continue to hinder the determination of
effects on maternal and child health  outcomes. A Study of m-Health
interventions which targeted pregnant women reported improvements in
antenatal and neonatal service utilization, but evidence of effects on
maternal and neonatal outcomes was limited,  (Sondaal et al, 2016).
orange has and are the primary m-Health technology and the most relevant
to behavior change interventions. They have largely been use routinely
for communications among many various communities.  However, their uses
have been limited among the refugees settlements and the rural
communities due to their inability to own mobile phones.  Pregnant
mothers are usually the most affected since they are unable to
communicate when in need of reproductive services. Therefore, providing
them with mobile phones will make their communication easier and  be
able to attend antenatal services and other scheduled reproductive
services.

his project improves and provides easy, rapid and efficient access to maternal health care, essentially reducing the death rate at birth.
This project offers local means a series of techniques aimed at combating dependence on traditional practices of complex supply of unapproved, slow, unreliable and costly drugs which weaken access to maternal health care, this projects also improves shorter transportation time and reduced supply and storage costs of covid-19 drugs and prevention kits and responses, increased flexibility in providing products tailored to local needs in lower risk maternity to the covid-19 realities. preferences and loyalty of local communities to modern practices of the protection of motherhood for less in the period of Covid-19.

The influx of refugees from South Sudan and Uganda into Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)  continues to increase due to the ongoing conflict in
the region. Currently, it is estimated that about 10,000 pregnant
mothers live in the refugees settlements and host communities in
DRC  This number is expected to rise as more refugees continues to trickle into RDC from the South Sudan and UGANDA. Therefore, in one year about 10,000 or more will be served with the proposed solution.  In five years up a minimum of 50,000 or more pregnant mothers will be served with the proposed solution.

the 5 next year this project offers local means a series of techniques aimed at combating dependence on traditional practices of complex supply of unapproved, slow, unreliable and costly drugs which weaken access to maternal health care, this projects also improves shorter transportation time and reduced supply and storage costs of covid-19 drugs and prevention kits and responses.

Goal: The main goal of this solution is contribute to the improvement of
maternal and child health among the refugees and host communities in
RDC. We shall initially  conduct a baseline survey to determine the number of pregnantmothers and new born in refugees and host communities in the target region. This shall be followed by designing and implementation of the
EHC using the LLTR model in primary healthcare facility in refugees and
the host communities.  As part of the sustainability plan, we shall
incorporate capacity building of healthcare workers and village health
teams in our solution. Additionally, we shall investigate the impact of
EHC implementation on maternal and newborn in the refugees and host
communities. Furthermore, we shall investigate the refugees and
communities practices that improve the maternal and child health
survival in the refugees settlements and host communities . We envisage
up to 50,000 or more pregnant mothers in refugees and host communities
will  benefit from the proposed solution. This will have an overall
impact on the health and productivity of refugees and host communities
in the refugees hosting districts.

Financial: The proposed solution will have to use significant amount of funds to be able to implement the EHC package in the next year and the next five years. As of now, we can't yet figure out how we shall be able to execute the proposed exercises.Therefore, financial limitation will have significant effects on how the proposed solution will be implemented.

Legal: Despite the relatively open regulatory environment for refugees in DRC and the many existing initiatives by refugee innovators, there are many constraints that still need to be addressed to bolster refugee-led innovations. Women who are engaged in community based activities experience problems in how to market their products in order to improve on their livelihood. The refugees movements are are still restricted and thus they are unable to look for markets for the products and services.

Technical and legal: Refugee innovation in DRC is rich and diverse, and is supported not only by international agencies but also through community-led initiatives. However, refugees still face many barriers to innovation. At a national level, DRC is aware of its need to further support science and technology innovation, but does not mention refugees in its national policies.Also Networks problems.

Cultural: Having diverse cultural philosophies and practices at the
refugees and host communities are serious set backs in  the execution of
the proposed solution at the refugees and host communities  since each
of the ethnic groups would prefer practice their own culture at the
sites, making fulfillment of the proposed goal difficult.

Financial: As an effort to overcome the financial limitations, we hope to aggressively seek for funding from potential funders through joint grant application platform with willing partners and individuals who would like to partner and participate in the contribution to the plight of the refugees and heavily burden host communities in DRC. We hope through sustained effort of seeking for funding, we shall be able to overcome the the current financial limitations.

Legal: Although  DRChas one of the best policies in the world, more still needs to be done on refugees policies so that the plight of the refugees are properly handled through policies that impact on their welfare.

Technical:Governments and the international community can help to minimize these barriers by considering how they could best support refugees to take their own ideas forward – through better access to financing for personal and business development, provision of more opportunities to bid for business grants, and by sharing information on existing services that refugees may be able to access themselves.Through this project we shall advocate for improvements of refugees led innovation through better policies. We shall use refugees settlements and areas of host communities which have networks coverage.

Culture:  We shall advocate and encourage the organization of the
different ethnic groups to be located distinctly at different sites of
the settlements for clear identify and to build cohesiveness and free
interactions among  the refugees and host communities while preserving
cultural identity and practices.

  All the team members  work of general hospital Medicine HGPR.  However, the individual members are from different mainly from Maternal and child health, Medical Biochemistry and information, Pediatrics. HGPRembraces community engagement in all its core functions of teaching, research and innovation. The curricula of training both undergraduate and graduate levels emphasize deliberately structured courses on community engagement. Available evidence shows that the community engagement approach has had positive impacts on both the students and host communities. The community orientation makes HGPR
disseminate researched knowledge, technologies and innovations for
immediate application for Socioeconomic community transformation.

All the members of my team are full time staffs of HGPR and usually engaged in teaching and research. 67 Teams

MICHEL MUKAMBA WATONGOKA who is the team leader for this project has vast experience in working with the communities. 

TSDR Rodrigue LUBUTO KAURWA .  Has several experience on reproductive health.  He is interested in improving access and utilization of reproductive services among  host communities. He has several experiences in dealing reproductive health among mothers and their new born.

Nathalie FURAHA SHAMAMBA . Holds a masters  degree in information Science.  He has several experiences on community health research and using mobile application technology in community's research.

We have partnerships with HGPR Goma in areas of research and
innovations. We are routinely involved in joint grant applications,
joint implementation of the research projects, participating as external
examiners and development of manuscript for publications. We are  currently working on joint COVID-19 project focusing training of refugees and host communities on the recommended preventive measures on COIVID-19.  We have also submitted a joint grant application to build the capacities of the health workers in refugees’ settlements and host communities for quality diagnosis, case management, treatment of COVID-19 to improve the healthcare services of the refugees and host communities for sustainable health and development in the region. If funded, we hope to use the project to improve the lives of these vulnerable groups

Allow the target population to have easy access to the various socio-economic and professional supports in the fight against COVID-19 for the prevention, response and management of these diseases.
- Make available health resources and reliable sources of community information in order to promote awareness and exchanges between different potentials in the fight against COVID-19,
- Promote the adoption of responsible health behaviors in the prevention, response and management of virus diseases
- Promote and support the initiatives of community survival works in the fight against COVID-19 including IGAs, and Discourage stigma and refractors on corona virus diseases
- Train, inform, raise awareness and educate the community and provide

contribution and self-financing

we want to work with you to become a partner and above all to help solve the problems that hinder the development of the population of our country and the whole world.
we want to improve the well-being of the population by improving community health conditions in general by initiating techniques that help and

in Early identification, case management, treatment and the efficient
timely administration of health support services to pregnant mothers and
their newborns, helps in providing access and utilization of healthcare
services.  we want to help in providing solutions to healthcare gaps
that are currently being experienced in settlements and host communities
due to the huge numbers who largely depend on poorly inadequate
healthcare services. Therefore, we'll significantly contribute to the
well-being of the populations and their host communities

by this partnership we want to work with you to help the population so it will be a collaboration partnership and mobilization of funds to support projects in favor of the target population of our activities; We hope that through this pilot project we shall be able to provide  comprehensive  package to the pregnant mothers and their new born in the refugees and host communities in order to improve on the access,utilization and quality of reproductive services. In order to fulfill this tasks, there is need to have partnerships with other interesting parties so that we all make our contributions in the improvement of maternal and child in the refugees settlements and host communities for sustainable health and development in the region. Partnerships provides an opportunity to participate in the implementation of our shared goals irrespective of our institutional differences.

all the organizations working in favor of the population in poverty among others: PPR, adelopo Rdc, PNUD, MERCY CORPS,
CAMP RDC, ADD, We hope to benefit from their leaderships through writing and submitting
joint application for for funding. We shall earnestly work together in
the process development as well as participating in writing and
implementation of the solutions. We shall also involve partnering with
interested Solve's members, MIT Faculty or available initiatives
interested to to partner with us.  We believe that through this
partnership we shall gain from the technical inputs they will render to
our solutions

Recurrent conflicts in Democratic Republic of Congo continue to cause huge displacements of people into refugee settlements in the region. . However, the influx of refugees has brought additional population pressure on natural resources .  The ratio of health workers to patients at health facilities is low.  With the emergence of COVID-19, reproductive health services for mothers and new born among refugees and host communities are further exacerbated. Improved access to and use of healthcare services is urgently required, Our project focuses on the refugees and the host communities . Specifically, the project focuses on  maternal and child health. It is hoped that when a woman is provided with the necessary reproductive health  services, she has the capacity to produce a health child that grows into a productive adults in a society.  Health is directly related to resilience and productivity. Therefore, this fits in line with  Andan Foundation prizes, a Swiss non-profit foundation

dedicated to supporting solutions that promote refugee resilience, self-relianceand integration. We shall use this fund to implement the proposed
comprehensive health care systems for the improvement of maternal and
child health at lower primary health facilities in the refugees
settlements . We shall use the LLTR model, an innovative tool that will be used in the implementation
of this vital health care package in the improvement of access and
utilization of maternal and child health care services in the region.

Our project focuses on improving access, utilization  and quality of
maternal and child health in the refugees and host communities in
Northern Uganda.  Therefore, this fits in line with orange , which supports technology-focused projects that advance the
needs of women and girls, and that promote a world where women’s voices
can be celebrated.  This project will use the fund to support the women
community based innovation projects at the refugees and host communities
through tailored training to enhance their capacities to run these
project.  Most of women in the settlements and the host communities lack
basic formal education but are engaged in a number of community based
income generation projects as a source of livelihood. However, they are
deficient of essential business and entrepreneurship skills, thus the
majority of these women only aim at engaging in small scale of
businesses. Those who try a fairly large scale business do not run them
well and they often make losses.  Therefore, we  shall provide support
training on business and entrepreneurship skills to scale up their
capacities to handle the community based innovation projects at the
settlements and the host communities for the improvement of their
livelihood in the region.

One of our strategies in the  improvement of maternal and child health
involves building the capacity of health workers and village health
teams in refugees and host communities.  Therefore, this fits in line
with the Health Workforce Innovation Prize which expand and support the
health workforce for newborns, pregnant women, and new mothers in
low-income countries. We shall use this fund to train healthcare workers
and village health in the provision of efficient health services
maternal and child health through training in reproductive health
services. Our focus will involve building capacities of health works
force and village health teams to competently handle healthcare 
challenges including early identification of pregnant mothers, ensuring
timely referrals of village health teams, consistent tracking and
monitoring, improvement of health workers' assessment and referral
capabilities at lower primary health facilities, and/or introduction of
new tools or methods for treatment among others in the refugees and host
communities in  DR Congo

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO is unlikely to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (3) good health and
well-being, 4) quality education, 5, clean water and sanitation with
the current influx of refugees from UGANDA and RWANDA which has put population pressure on the limited natural
resources and basic social services in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.  With the presence of COVID-19 in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, the Refugees settlements and host
communities in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO may be the hot-spots for COVID-19 due to inadequate health facilities and healthcare workers. Pregnant women and
their new born  will suffer the brunt of this pandemic due limited
access and utilization of essential reproductive health services in the
region. The main transport for use by most people including pregnant
mothers and children going to the nearest primary health facilities in
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO are the motorcycles services known as the "boda boda" . However, due to the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO presidential directives of stopping Boda Boda from carrying anyone including pregnant mothers unless authorized has resulted into a drop in significant clinic attendance. Persistent fears of contracting COVID-19 from others in the hospitals or health centers have resulted into a drop in the health facility or hospital delivery. Refugees and host communities will disproportionately suffer from shortages of  essential reproductive health services in the region and this will no doubt put their lives into jeopardy.Our focus in this
project is to improve access, utilization and quality of maternal and
child health in refugees and host communities in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.  This will be done in partnership with primary health facilities in the
refugees hosting districts in the region. This fits in line with the The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that support solutions that improve
maternal and newborn health in low- and middle income countries. We
shall use this funds in scaling up access, utilization and quality of
maternal and child health through intervention using systems at the
primary health facilities in the region. If successful, this model will
be scaled up in other refugees hosting districts in the region.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO is unlikely to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (3) good health and
well-being, 4) quality education, 5, clean water and sanitation with
the current influx of refugees from UGANDA and RWANDA which has put population pressure on the limited natural
resources and basic social services in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.  With the presence of COVID-19 in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, the Refugees settlements and host
communities
in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO may be the hot-spots for COVID-19 due
to inadequate health facilities and healthcare workers. Pregnant women
and
their new born  will suffer the brunt of this pandemic due limited
access and utilization of essential reproductive health services in the
region. The main transport for use by most people including pregnant
mothers and children going to the nearest primary health facilities in
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO are the motorcycles services known as the "boda
boda" . However, due to the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO presidential
directives of stopping Boda Boda from carrying anyone including pregnant
mothers unless authorized has resulted into a drop in significant
clinic attendance. Persistent fears of contracting COVID-19 from others
in the hospitals or health centers have resulted into a drop in the
health facility or hospital delivery. Refugees and host communities will
disproportionately suffer from shortages of  essential reproductive
health services in the region and this will no doubt put their lives
into jeopardy.Our focus in this
project is to improve access, utilization and quality of maternal and
child
health in refugees and host communities in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
CONGO.  This will be done in partnership with primary health facilities
in the
refugees hosting districts in the region. This fits in line with the The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that support solutions that improve
maternal and newborn health in low- and middle income countries. We
shall use this funds in scaling up access, utilization and quality of
maternal and child health through intervention using systems at the
primary health facilities in the region. If successful, this model will
be scaled up in other refugees hosting districts in the region.