Improving dietary and health data for decision-making in agriculture and nutrition actions in Africa
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2023-02-28
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Child malnutrition is one of the most used indicators for tracking progress towards attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) and the impacts of development interventions. Unfortunately, the current methods for collecting child nutrition indicators require considerable training, are slow and are expensive to collect data accurately. In this project, we developed and tested a mobile smartphone-based platform called Mbiotisho which means our health in Samburu, one of the local languages in Kenya), by which households can easily collect, submit, and access information on their and their children’s nutritional status in near-real time and at extremely low cost. Over the course of four years, we piloted and implemented the application in four locations.
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CHILD MALNUTRITION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SMARTPHONES, DATA COLLECTION, HEALTH DATA, SOUTH OF SAHARA