Scaling BBC Media Action mHealth services pan-India
Posted on: November 7, 2014
By: Sara Chamberlain
Categories: Innovation, Social Awareness |Tags: Bihar, BMGF, Community Health Workers, Kilkari, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
I’m exhausted, on the verge of illness and we’re very, very tired in the India office – but – we’re EXCITED! Why? Because in the last month, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has delivered maternal and child health content developed by BBC Media Action to more than 260,000 families. Kilkari, BBC […]
Read moreTransforming family health in India: lessons learned
Posted on: June 23, 2014
By: Radharani Mitra
Categories: Innovation, People, Strategy |Tags: Bihar, BMGF, Community, Khirki Mehendiwali, Kilkari, Listeners' groups, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
Over the past three and a half years, a large team of over 250 people has been hard at work on an ambitious project that aims to improve family health in Bihar, one of the poorest and most populous states in India. This month about 60 of us came together to take stock of all […]
Read moreStories of failure. And success.
Posted on: August 20, 2013
By: Siddhartha Swarup
Categories: Innovation, Research, Strategy |Tags: Ek Teen Do, Khirki Mehendiwali, Kilkari, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
How did the education system get it so wrong? Remember those multiple-choice tests where we had to pick one right answer? From the day we join school we are taught that there is always one right answer to a problem. Fortunately, life teaches us otherwise. Get married or not? One child or two? Job or […]
Read moreA lifeline for mothers in Bihar
Posted on: August 12, 2013
By: Sara Chamberlain
Category: Innovation |Tags: Bihar, Kilkari, mHealth
Ram Lakhan frequently leaves his brothers, sisters and wife behind to work as a labourer in Mumbai. He uses his dual SIM Chinese mobile phone to talk to the folks back home: “I’ve got an Airtel SIM for Bihar and an Idea SIM for Mumbai – the Airtel network is better in Bihar, but Idea […]
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