Wezesha

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

A digital platform that enhances two-way communication in the healthcare sector between patients, service providers, and government institutions.

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

Wezesha is a digital communication platform for the primary healthcare sector, which uses accessible technology to enhance two-way communication between patients, service providers and government institutions. As a patient arrives at the clinic they are prompted to register on Wezesha through their mobile phone using USSD technology. After receiving services at the clinic, the patient will be prompted by Wezesha to respond to <5 questions relating to their experience. For example, a patient seeking antenatal care may be asked to rate the quality of the service provided by responding to specific questions about their interaction with the care provider.

Wezesha aggregates this digital data over time and across geographic areas to analyse how patient experience differs. Data is shared with partners in government and service providers, who can then make decisions on how to adjust service provision. This becomes a major lever for improving service quality and patient experience. Once this digital communication channel is established between Wezesha and patients, government and service providers can use this as an outbound channel to directly reach patients. For example, a patient with a chronic condition who needs to return to the facility regularly, can receive a digital prompt via SMS.

This solution is based on evidence provided from research which indicates that improving data, communication and strengthening systems of accountability within primary healthcare leads to enhanced citizen experience and healthcare outcomes. 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Partner with 3-5 primary healthcare facilities in the first three months

• 1,000 citizen engagements in the first three months

• Operate within 100 primary healthcare facilities by end of year 2

• 500,000 citizen engagements by end of year 2

• Expand into two additional countries and/or sectors by end of year 5

FOUNDING TEAM

Simon DeBere - Co-founder

Robert Smith - Co-founder

#TRANSPARENTIVAL

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE; COLOMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Existing government petition system to fight corruption.

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

#Transparentival will be a cooperative campaign to educate, motivate and support people to fight corruption in Colombia.

In this project we will use the right to petition as a tool to fight corruption. The right to petition allows people to access public information, challenge abuses of power and report negligence from authorities.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Send 1,000 corruption reports using right to petition during pilot

• Reach 10,000 people with information on government petitions during pilot

• Raise an additional $15,000 during pilot

• Reach 50,000 people with information on government petitions by end of Y1

• Reach 100,000 people with information on government petitions by end of Y2

FOUNDING TEAM

Margarita Méndez Sandoval - Director

Luke Hammett - Project Leader

Civis

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE; INDIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

A mobile platform that enables citizens to understand legislation and share their feedback on laws and policy decisions in local languages while providing an avenue for the government to understand citizens’ priorities and gather feedback on policies in real time.

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

At Civis we are building a scalable, multi sided platform, to ensure that the process of public consultations can be effectively used by citizens and governments alike, to co-create laws together. We do this by:

1. Aggregating all open Consultations seeking feedback.

2. Simplifying them in accessible language.

3. Reaching out to individuals and gathering inputs on these laws.

4. Analysing and sharing citizen’s feedback with the Government - thereby building Government capacity to run effective Consultations, and gather actionable insights.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 10,000 users by the end of pilot phase

• 100,000 users by the end of year 1

• 1,000,000 users by the end of year 2
  
  

FOUNDING TEAM

Antaraa Vasudev - Founder

Raise Your Text

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Texting accountability and outreach platform. 

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

Raise Your Text plans to reduce teacher absenteeism for unauthorized absences while increasing educational data and teacher-parent engagement through an anonymous texting accountability and outreach platform. Using "dumb" and smart cell phones which are being increasingly used in the developing world, parents and students indicate teacher absenteeism anonymously by sending text messages to the Raise Your Text system, and teachers can engage with students and their families about classroom updates, events, and issues via message. Once information has been gathered and analyzed, data will be utilized by the Department of Education in partnership with Raise Your Text to either incentivize or take action against poor performing teachers. 

Raise Your Text has key connections with the local Department of Education, teachers, politicians to conduct a pilot with 20 schools and 100 teachers on the island of Pohnpei. After the pilot is complete, the service will be converted into a more formal software and service which will be marketed to local, state, and country departments of education with large problems in teacher absenteeism and teacher-parent engagement. 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Monitor 100 classrooms during the pilot 

• Monitor 2,000 classrooms by the end of year 1 

• Engage 10,000 students and their family members in the platform during the pilot

• Engage 200,000 students and family members in the platform by the end of year 1 

FOUNDING TEAM

Nick Canfield - Team Lead

Richard Clark - Partnership Manager

Joyceleen Panuel - Project Manager 

Prathima Appaji - Legal and Political Analyst