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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps there could be some lessons learned from the work done in Tanzania
using USSD for IDSR reporting directly into DHIS2. Ismail can provide more
details on that specific solution.

Knut


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Wilson,Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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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Knut Staring
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