ACCENTURE AND THE Accenture Foundations have issued Amref Health Africa with a further US$3mn grant to help the organisation improve its mobile health training programme aimed at 3,000 community health workers in Kenya
According to Accenture, the grant brings the firm’s funding efforts to Amref Health Africa to more than US$7.3mn since 2005.
This grant is a part of Accenture’s initiative, Skills to Succeed, which is training more than 700,000 people across the globe with the skills to get a job or set up a business. The MPESA Foundation has offered an extra US$1.5mn in funding. Community health workers provide a key role in providing healthcare services to communities, however do not provide training and support to deliver them effectively. Accenture’s two year grant will enable Amref Health Africa to grow its Health Enablement and Learning Platform (HELP) – which provides community health workers with flexible, mobile access to skills training and support tools across Africa.
HELP, which was piloted in 2013, is a mobile health learning platform created in partnership with Vodacom Mezzanine’s Helium platform, and Safaricom – a Vodafone affiliate in Kenya. HELP is working in line with Vodafone’s mhealth portfolio, which has developed a network of global partnerships, creating better access to healthcare services through its customer reach and scalable mobile health solutions. Vodafone and Safaricom will continue to offer scalability and mobile solution
expertise with technology partner Mezzanine.
“Through this collaborative partnership, we are leveraging technology and delivering measurable solutions that will make a profound impact across sub-Saharan Africa,” said Jill Huntley, managing director, Global Corporate Citizenship, Accenture.
“By harnessing the power of mobile, Amref Health Africa is delivering job and medical skills training at speed and scale – a critical component in improving the health as well as the long-term economic
sustainability of communities in Africa.”
