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C-Change (Communications for Change) Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Bamikale Feyisetan/Jim Foreit
1. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi
Bamikale Feyisetan, PhD, Senior Research Specialist
C-Change, Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009-5721
202-464-3867
Jim Foreit, PhD, Director, Research
C-Change, Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009-5721
202-464-3867
2. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Overview
Rationale
Objective
Dependent and independent variables
Project Design
Where we are
3. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Rationale
• Phenomenal increase in mobile phone subscription in
Malawi – from 382 in 1995 to 1.8m in 2008
• Use of mobile phone is pervasive both in rural and in
urban areas
• Text messaging is common in Malawi
• Encouraged by the use of mobile phones for health
programs in other countries – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,
Mozambique and South Africa
4. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Overview
Objective:
Assess the effects of using mobile text messaging on FP
service uptake
Measures of Program Effects: Percent change in: (i) Number
of FP visits to the health facilities; (ii) Number of FP
clients; (iii) CYP
5. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Study Design
• Four districts to be selected for the study
– 2 for intervention
– 2 for comparison
• Intervention:
– Develop and deliver text FP messages/invitations to current FP
clients and their friends/colleagues whose numbers are available
– Messages to be developed by C-Change and Health Education Unit
of the Ministry of Health, Malawi
– Mobile numbers and messages to be made available to mobile
providers who will send messages at agreed intervals
6. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Data Collection
Baseline and end-line data collection
– To calculate the measures of program effects
7. Use of Mobile Phones for FP Programs in Malawi: Where we are
• Consultations with stakeholders have just been undertaken
• Developing an RFP to seek a local partner organization to
work with
• Developing study protocol
