Frida and Afyakit’s road to Cape Verde

I only saw the email the second time it was sent to me. I could not believe that I’d missed it! The email was from WHO informing me that our application for the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge was among the 30 that had been identified as those with greatest potential to impact health, and inviting us to showcase it at a regional conference in Praia, Cape Verde. This was awesome. We were among the top 30 out of over 2400 applications. This came right on the heels of an article in Forbes about Afyakit. We had come a long way.

Afyakit is a management decision support tool that seeks to improve quality of health services by availing actionable data to health managers at various levels to inform decision making. It comprises a mobile- and web-based supervision platform and tools with inbuilt easy-to use analytics. This ensures that data collected during routine supervision of health facilities by district and other managers is analysed, packaged and presented in easy to use formats such as color-coded dashboards as well as ad standardized detailed reports. The analytics are aggregated at subnational and national levels. Afyakit tools are modular and scalable.