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[Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

in Zambia they have set up a partly manual system to reimburse/incentivize
reporters for the Malaria program. I guess they can give the details as
they are also on the list.

In general I can say that we don't have a USSD connection directly from
DHIS2, though we are very keen to investigate the whole area of
reimbursement etc as part of the DHIS mobile project. We would need the
DHIS2 server to have a mobile modem supporting USSD/SMS.

Those who were implementing this in Zambia found that there were no
standardized interfaces for doing this reimbursement on the network side,
and the way they got around it I think was to install a mobile modem which
could do SMS and USSD, and use an external program to run through a list of
USSD/SMS commands (these were generated by a custom script in DHIS2). They
are doing this on a different machine than the one that hosts DHIS2.
Depending on the hosting situation and which OS the gateway-software runs
on, it may be easier to do as they have done. To generate scripts on DHIS2
which are run on another machine that has network connectivity for
SMS/USSD.


Lars



2013/12/18 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
>
>
>
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Lars Kristian Roland
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