SPIDER Project Result Follow-up

Results follow up on projects supported by SPIDER

Each Spider project has an integrated research component that will provide quality assurances or checks at periodic stages of the project. This ensures the participation of the target groups, whose opinions and objections can be valuable input to the ensuing stages of the implementation process.

What this also means is that monitoring and evaluating the project takes place during and after the project life-cycle. An integrated research approach entails baseline studies and needs assessments of the target groups that will benefit from the initiative.

Results from the baseline and needs assessment serve as bench marks for evaluating the impact of the initiative through the project life-cycle and beyond. Researchers and/or Monitoring and Evaluation experts from partner countries are commissioned to carry out the results follow up.

Results from projects

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Teacher training in Bolivia even more important in times of COVID-19

SPIDER’s education programme has supported Bolivian organisations doing teacher training in how to use ICTs when teaching since 2013. These skills proved even more important to ensure that education can continue even when COVID-19 lockdowns closed Bolivian schools.

How a HMIS affects the Quality of Care

CCBRT introduced a HMIS to help manage their clinic, reach out to patients and handle referrals.

Result follow-up made a baseline assessment on system use and its effect on quality of care, what the challenges were and lessons to be learnt from CCBRT’s experiences.

Telehealth for Cervical Cancer Screening

Mobile colposcopes can bring screening for cervical cancer closer to women in rural areas, make second opinions and referrals quicker and easier.

What did staff and patients think of this new approach to screening?

Digital Vouchers for Contraceptives

The Maisha Meds software gives adolescents access to subsidised contraceptives through digital payments at selected pharmacies.

Result follow-up sought to understand what made adolescents return to some pharmacies and not others.

Adolescent girls in Rohingya refugee camps

mPower used mobiles for SRHR information to adolescent Rohingya girls in the refugee camps. This was challenging

Results follow-up studied their situation and awareness of SRHR topics before, during and at the end of the project.

Building Capacity of Children and Women Headed-households

Ndola Nutrition organisation’s project used ICTs to train participants in chicken rearing and to improve the soy bean farming as means to better sustain themselves and their families.

The result follow up studied the challenges faced by children and female headed households and how the capacity building would impact their lives.

iRebero Smart Community: Driving Employability and Self-Sufficiency through an ICT Ecosystem Model

Sangwa job training centre uses a comprehensive value chain that ranges from feed production to marketing to form a community that is self-sufficient in the production of pork.

The result follow contributed with baselines and a five year business plan for sustainablity.

Digital Health Information and Services in Rwanda

Babyl Rwanda and Viamo provides health information and services through mobile phones.

The research supporting implementation researched how the service is used and what the users think of the solution.

E-Learning and Multimedia Technology for Mathematics and Basic Health education in Nakivale Refugee Camp

This project implemented by Mbarara University of Science and Technology works with an e-learning solution for teachers and pupils in Nakivale refugee settlement.

Researchers made a baseline study to investigate the learning enviroments in the settlement’s six schools as well as the overall situation for pupils.

Mathematics and Language through the use of ICT

World Vision Bolivia has trained teachers in three schools in Potosí to use ICT for language and mathematic education in primary schools.

Researchers following the implementation has studied what both teachers and pupils think of using ICTs in the classrooms, and found some suggestions for improvements.

Open Data to Monitor SDGs in the Lower Mekong Region

Open Development Mekong collects data to track and follow up 5 of the SDG goals in the Mekong region.

The research supporting this implementation has identified various risks and mitigation strategies associated with working with open data within each country as well as a collaborating region.

Digital African Health Library

Clinicians in most parts of Africa operate in an information poor and resource constrained environment. Digital African Health Library uses smart phones to bridge this gap.

Researchers investigated how increased access to decision support changes practices and what types of resources are mostly used.

iReady projects in Burundi and Mozambique

The iReady projects focus on young persons living with or affected by HIV and Aids in Burundi and Mozambique.

SPIDER research programme has made baseline studies to inform the projects on the information needs of project participants and what services they prefer to access information about their rights.

Media for Transparency and Accountability in Uganda

The media plays several integral roles in achieving transparency and accountability in the private and public sectors. Media reports allow citizens to gain more access to information and to follow on-going discussions in the public corridors.

Mobile Health for Improved Maternal and Child Health Services Utilisation

Maternal health is about ensuring the wellbeing of mothers during pregnancy, delivery and two months following delivery. SPIDER is supporting a project called “Mobile Health for Improved Maternal and Child Health Services Utilisation” that is implemented by AMREF Ethiopia.

Open Development Myanmar (ODMM)

SPIDER has been supporting a project called Open Development Myanmar (ODMM) which is implemented by Phandeeyar – a technology community hub designed to support social innovation, civic technology and ICT for development in Myanmar.

mCare Project

The mCare project, implemented by mPower Social Enterprises Ltd aims to reduce maternal mortality and child mortality which results from untimely and insufficient antenatal and postnatal care (ANC and PNC) of pregnant mothers in rural areas of Bangladesh.