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["Wilson,Randy" <rwilson@xxxxxxx>]

In Rwanda we are exploring the possibility of paying community health workers incentive payments (PBF) via Mobile Money for effectively tracking pregnant women using the RapidSMS system.  For example those who reported an average of 7 or more pregnancy-related messages per pregnant woman reported would receive a certain amount, while those reporting 4-6 would get less, and 3 or less would get no incentive payment.

We have already worked out how to transfer the data into the DHIS-2 from RapidSMS (updating phone number lists and importing datavalues to calculate the average number of pregnancy related messages per community health worker), but we're not sure if DHIS-2 supports sending of USSD messages that are used for mobile banking transactions.  Has anyone done this before?

Alternately, we could generate a report and send as an Excel sheet to the mobile carriers and have them initiate the transfers, but would then need a way to import the confirmation of payments back into the system since I suppose people with broken phones would not be able to receive their payments even if they are sent.

This is still at the discussion stage, but we would like to build on experiences of those who may have tried this before.

Randy Wilson
Senior HMIS and Data Use Advisor, Ministry of Health/Rwanda
Integrated Health Systems Strengthening Project
Management Sciences for Health, Inc. (MSH)
BP 371
Kigali, Rwanda