Mobilized Construction
Mobilized Construction has developed a smart IoT device to measure and assess road conditions in real-time. Utilizing geospatial data from accelerometers, we calculate International Roughness Index...
CUSTOM CHALLENGE; KENYA
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
A proprietary software platform that enables coordinated, micro-contracted local labor to rehabilitate dirt roads.
Learn more about the Custom Challenge and why we only fund ideas that focus on distributing proven poverty interventions.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Infrastructure, like roads, have been identified as the largest enabler of economic development. Transportation accounts for 50% of the cost of a product in rural areas. Mobilized Construction has developed a proprietary software to complement existing road repair processes to build ease of use for local project planners. Data-collectors and civil engineers currently document road conditions by hand or use expensive vehicles equipped with sensors.
The second part of Mobilized Construction's platform is the Desktop Road Assessment Management tool for transportation planners and program managers to prioritize and assign repair work to manual laborers. Currently managers decide on road repair priorities based on intuition, community requests, or public pressure. This tool will equip individuals with data to make more equitable and inclusive decisions. The system will formalize informal and unskilled labor as well as create jobs for women and youth.
The third part of the platform is the Field Supervisor mobile application for supervisors and field laborers to receive micro road repair contracts. After tracking daily progress and completing repairs, data collectors certified complete by measuring road conditions again and wages to laborers are transferred via mobile payments like M-Pesa.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
At the 6 month mark, 30-50 kilometers of road will be repaired
30,000 lives will be impacted by the end of 6 months
100-150 kilometers of road will be repaired by the end of year 1
250,000 lives will be impacted by the end of year 1
FOUNDING TEAM
Kevin Lee - CEO
Gregory Islas - Data Scientist
Jens Egholm - CTO
African 1000 Days Action
The African 1000 Days Actions (ADA) is a start-up non-government organization that brings affordable quality maternal healthcare to poor women. Through its South Sudanese Project,
MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Misoprostol, a $3 drug that could prevent 100,000 maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging.
Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
African 1000 Days Action brings affordable, quality maternal healthcare to poor women with limited access to primary healthcare services. The organization trains facility-based healthcare providers and traditional birth attendants to administer Misoprostol as a postpartum hemorrhage prevention method. The organization will ensure an effective supply chain in the Upper Nile State region of South Sudan to allow the drug to be available at an affordable price and will establish a modern pharmacy to distribute Misoprostol. To begin, African 1000 Days Action will obtain a written official approval from the South Sudanese Ministry of Health for the implementation of the project. The team notes that this is a crucial step in a post-conflict country where many regions are still militarized and the local project staff may need to frequently demonstrate that the project is approved by authorities. Then African 1000 Days Action will conduct meetings with important stakeholders including the Chinese Petroleum Extraction Company airline which is the only transportation available to reach their pilot location from Juba, South Sudan's capital city.
The organization will focus on identifying and training traditional birth attendants. In South Sudan, around 80% of mothers deliver at home assisted by traditional birth attendants. While public healthcare institutions suffer from a lack of equipment and human resources, private pharmacists, drug shop owners, and private clinical officers have built expansive networks within the community and are playing a vital role in providing health services to remote communities. Private healthcare providers and traditional birth attendants will be chosen from this group to train on the correct use of misoprostol.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
- Train 500 healthcare providers and 1,000 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) to administer misoprostol during the pilot
- Grow to 5,000 healthcare providers and over 10,000 TBA trainees by the end of 2019
- Ensure misoprostol supply chain to mothers during childbirth in rural areas
FOUNDING TEAM
Jean Luc Ugirashebuja - Executive Director
Pollicy
Pollicy, founded by Neema Iyer, believes in the power of data to revolutionize how governments deliver services to their citizens. The venture will use multiple accessible digital
TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE; UGANDA
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Data gathering platform to improve the provision of waste management services.
Learn more about the Transparency Challenge and how citizen reporting platforms can be used to hold government officials accountable and reduce corruption.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Pollicy believes in the power of data to revolutionize how governments deliver services to their citizens. The venture will use multiple accessible digital tools to create demand generation and feedback mechanisms between citizens and districts to improve the provision of waste management services. An open dashboard will present the visualized data to the district government for rapid decision-making, budgeting, planning and resource allocation
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
10,000 citizens reached during the pilot phase
3 digital channels created during the pilot phase
FOUNDING TEAM
Neema Iyer - Founder
Mozambique School Lunch Initiative
The Mozambique School Lunch Initiative is a non-profit organization that delivers nutritious school lunches to children in rural primary schools in Mozambique, reducing childhood
CUSTOM CHALLENGE; MOZAMBIQUE
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Vitamin fortified lunches.
Learn more about the Custom Challenge and why we only fund ideas that focus on distributing proven poverty interventions.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
The Mozambique School Lunch Initiative is a non-profit organization that delivers nutritious school lunches to children in rural primary schools in Mozambique, reducing childhood malnutrition and increasing school participation.
By fortifying the school lunches with iron and vitamin A, and including annual deworming, we ensure that children are able to make the most of the school meals and thereby increase the impact of every dollar spent. Furthermore, by procuring food products from the local community, our school lunch program also stimulates local agricultural investment and production. In these ways, the Mozambique School Lunch Initiative promotes increased human capital accumulation and local agricultural market integration.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
600 children dewormed during the pilot phase
8 schools reached during the pilot phase
FOUNDING TEAM
Cara Myers - Founder
ThinkZone
While 97% of Indian children enrol in schools, over 40% dropout before by age 12. The high dropout rates and poor learning outcomes eventually contribute to a huge deficit in the
FLIPPED CLASSROOM CHALLENGE
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
‘School-in-a-box’.
Learn more about the Flipped Classroom Challenge and why new education models, like flipping the classroom or deskilling a class curriculum, offer a solution to the vast teacher shortages in the developing world.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
ThinkZone empowers parents and educators to develop foundational skills of children by leveraging accessible tech solutions and community-led interventions. We enable community educators, childcare workers, and school teachers to deliver quality early-grade education programs via data-driven mobile and voice/SMS based technology, low-cost learning resources, and class management tools.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
15 women entrepreneurs onboarded during the pilot phase
450 students enrolled during the pilot phase
FOUNDING TEAM
Binayak Acharya - Founder
Energy One Africa
Energy One Africa was founded by Mathy Mpassy Isinki with the goal of giving energy access to underserved low income consumers via pay-as-you-go. Energy One Africa's subscribers
SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Solar lamps.
Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Energy One Africa operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where only 9% of the population has access to electricity, leaving more than 70 million people without access.
Energy One Africa is building the energy solution that hard to reach markets needs, providing reliable and affordable solar power products, as well as specialized training for local community electrification leaders. The approach consists of enabling community-led electrification by providing solar power training sessions on installation and sales before developing local distribution projects with local people.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
1,500 solar lamps distributed during the pilot phase
8,250 direct beneficiaries reached during the pilot phase
33,000 subscribers reached by the end of year 2
PERFORMANCE UPDATE (JANUARY 2020)
Energy One Africa has already trained 300+ people within 2 provinces of the Democratic republic of Congo, providing the workforce to serve 5,000 last mile customers and impacting 27,500 lives. Our plan for the next five years is to train 500 community electrification leaders and provide power to 100,000 last mile households.
FOUNDING TEAM
Mathy Mpassy Isinki - Founder
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