KAAIA-NIG-MOBICURE The Rural peri-Urban Sexual and re-productive Health Expansion and Development Project by myPaddi - RUSHED



Contract partner: MOBicure Integrated Solutions Limited Country: Nigeria Funding amount: € 250.000,00 Project start: 01.08.2022 End: 30.11.2023

Short Description:

Overall goal


The Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa (KAAIA) 2021 focuses on supporting projects by Africa-based start-up companies that offer innovative solutions to achieve SDG 3 ("Health and Wellbeing"). The Award was launched by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (BKA) in cooperation with the World Food Programme (WFP), the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Austrian Development Agency. The applicant and its project proposal were selected by a high class jury of international experts as one of the three Awardees of the Kofi Annan Award 2021 and will be funded with a maximum amount of € 250,000.

The applicant is a young company established in Nigeria in 2015. Its primary purpose is to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services and products. The applicant has envisioned a distribution model that combines online marketplace model with e-centre service agents in rural areas/periurban to solve the problem of cost and last mile delivery. For this, they have already secured partner outlets in major cities and designed the structure on how the marketplace and e-centres will function. The team also intends to update their existing doctor platform with a robust chatbot option.


Expected results


The aim is to improve more and easier access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and products in rural periurban areas.

100.000 persons are expected as users of the platform. 70.000 persons are expected to use the telemedicine service and the e-pharmacy platform. 40.000 young people will have an improved access to medical doctors and counsellors for SRH medical services. 50.000 young people will have an improved access to SRH products in rural and peri-urban areas. 10.000 persons will have a better SRH education in Nigeria, especially in rural and peri-urban areas.

 


Target group / Beneficiaries


The overall target group for Sexual Reproductive Health includes those aged 15 to 49. The project focuses especially on young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in rural and periurban areas in Edo State, Nigeria.


Activities


The implementation of a chatbot system to assist doctors as well as the implementation of the redesigned app and web platform are planned. Online e-pharmacys will be built and connected to e-pharmacy centers and partner networks. 12 live social media programs with doctors and counsellors will be organized together with external guest speaker. SRH education on social media as well as offline will be offered. SRH education and advocacy campaigns will additionally be implemented in secondary schools and universities. 52 centers and schools or universities will be involved.


Context


Through a Pan-African Call for Proposals, nine young companies were selected for an intensive five-day virtual boot camp training and business coaching provided by the WFP Innovation Accelerator. The applicant and its project proposal were selected by a high class jury of international experts as one of the three Awardees of the Kofi Annan Award 2021 and will be funded with a maximum amount of € 250,000. In addition to the funding, the Awardees will receive support from WFP during the implementation of their projects for one year with monthly meetings and several workshops.

project number 2870-02/2022
source of funding
sector Bevölkerungspolititk/-programme und reproduktive Gesundheit
tied
modality Project-type interventions
marker Gender: 1, Reproductive health: 2, Trade: 1
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.