2. What is SARPAM? Too many people in southern Africa suffer from disease without any medical relief . Greater access to proper medical care at an affordable price will mean more for the region than just a healthier economy. Photo: Vestergaard Frandsen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vestergaardfrandsen/)
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4. What is Tendai? Community-level Monitoring by Civil Society of Access to Medicines in southern Africa. First hand information on availability, access, quality and prices of medicines can be gathered even in remote areas Instantly accessible digital surveys, photos and videos provide insight into the real issues at community level All information with regards to this project will be shared on InfoHub Photo: Innovations for Poverty Action) (http://www.poverty-action.org/)
5. SARPAM works at a regional level: Through SADC Secretariat With DoHs Tendai works at a grassroots level: With local CSOs At basic health care facilities Photo: WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) Missions (www.wels.net/missions)
6. Expected Outcomes Identification of problems – e.g. Zinc Sulphate is unavailable Monitor interventions – e.g. Zinc Sulphate procured at CMS – is it available at clinics? Link cs networks across the region Collect market intelligence to feed into regional database to be used by various stakeholders Advocacy , awareness, information-gathering and conversations about access to medicines
7. Implementation 6 civil society organisations: PATAM, SEATINI, TAC, CWGH, HAI Africa, EPN Training workshops Pilot implementation: Oct 2011 – June 2012 Monthly data collection
24. Survey Software OpenDataKit – a free and open source set of tools which help organisations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions.
