Yearly Archives: 2015

On 29th and 30th September, the mCHW team invited 20 representatives and stakeholders, both from academia and from NGOs to a symposium at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, to discuss ways forward in the field of mobiles, development and global health training. The two days were structured in four group sessions. In the first session,…

“What does it really mean to use technology for education and learning in Africa”, asks Niall Winters in his recent contribution to the eLearning Africa Report 2015. “For many”, he writes, “it is an opportunity to provide students with the skills they need to take part in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, a…

By Martin Oliver Our project’s aim – to advance the training and supervision of community health workers in Kenya, following a participatory approach – creates some very specific requirements for evaluation. Unlike some intervention projects, our work with CHWs, CHEWs and other close-to-community actors isn’t stable. It has to be negotiated at every step, and…

By Hannah Wanjiru The project held a highly successful stakeholder’s forum on March 18, 2015 at Amref Health Africa Headquarters-auditorium. The meeting drew 30 stakeholders from the Ministry of Health both national officials, county officials and various partners such as UNICEF, medic mobile, World Vision and Special Education Professionals. The agenda of the meeting was…

  Niall Winters discusses the emerging findings form the mCHW project at a Public Seminar at the Department of Education, University of Oxford on 16 February 2015. He elaborates on the framing of global health training with technology from a social justice perspective (Winters & Geniets, in submission). Critiquing ICT for development, he shows how the design,…

It has been another busy few months for the mCHW project team. The successful scale up in November and December of the project to 100 community health volunteers and their supervisors in Kibera and Makueni with ongoing refresher trainings, was followed by an inspiring Capacity Building trip by Amref Health Africa collaborators Dr Alice Lakati…

By Benson Maina Njoroge, Public Health Officer and Supervisor in Kibera, Nairobi I was privileged to attend yet another one of the First Love Mothers group meetings held on Sunday 8th Feb 2015. This followed an invitation from the Chairlady of the group Ms Judy. I arrived early in Kibera where the meeting was to…