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A non-profit research organization working towards solutions and advocacy with the mission of health, awareness, growth and empowerment.
About You
About You
About Your Organization
Organization Name
CHANGE
Organization Website
Organization Country
India, KA
Country where this project is creating social impact
India, KA
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
GCE round 7 grant from Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
1) Adithya V.
Principal investigator of FINGO the project which won the prestigious GCE award.
adithya@ngochange.org
9980949281
2) Dr. P.V. Bhandari
A consulting psychiatrist and medical director of Dr. A. V. Baliga charitable hospital with immense experience in de-addiction and mental health.
venkatarayabhandary@gmail.com
9242124621
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Innovation
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Idea (you're poised to launch)
How long have you been in operation?
Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Through this study we'll be trying to address the issues of providing access to healthcare to every household. This will have an indirect effect as this will reduce the cost of travelling to the far off health care facility as well as equity with respect to access to health care
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We propose the use of Geomatics/ Geoinformatics to map the domestic structures as well as health care facilities and other public structures of importance from health care aspect with the public participation.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The three tier health care delivery system operating currently in India uses population norms for setting up an health care facility. We propose to map the domestic structures and other infrastructures in the locality which will help in advocating setting up of new health care facilities based on the area covered and the geographic terrain of the locality.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The competitors will be the private practitioners and quacks as setting up new government facility will definitely affect their patient load if not completely but to some extent.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Social Impact
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
During the masters thesis I realized how easy it was to get an informed consent from the study participants wherein if the study was conducted by a student from a reputed university and accompanied by the government health worker the people blindly participated in the study without knowing what the study aims to do or for what purpose the data collected will be used, it was then I realized how important participatory research was. This will help in empowering the rural communities by making them a part of the research as well as voicing their concern for access to health care.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The goal of the initiative is to improve the accessibility to health care facility by providing the burden through the use of geomatics.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
None yet as it is still in the ideation phase.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
The study will help in knowing the burden over the government health care facilities and thus help in providing solutions and advocacy towards establishing new health care facilities.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Devising and developing of software for mapping
Task 2
Training of rural volunteers or ASHA workers or other novice users to handle the high-tech devices.
Task 3
Community engagement
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Mapping of all the physical infrastructure
Task 2
Analysis with regards to the accessibility to the health care faciltiy
Task 3
Advocacy
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
There aren't any partnerships as of now but are funded by the Bill and Melinda gates foundation. Have applied for CSR to a leading cellular phone manufacturing company. Have also been working with a few independent collaborators who provide their expertise on ethical and legal parts of the study. For execution of the projects are in talks with a research organization, a teaching hospital and a charitable hospital.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Community participation and multi-disciplinary appraoch.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Being a start-up research organization and short on funds investment is needed. Being short on funds also doesn't allow to engage more human resource expertise. With regards to research although having a background in the same its always beneficial to involve more brains in the research. Collaborations will help us in reducing the burden on the little human resource which we have at our disposal.
 | 14 weeks agoAkila Maheshwari said: This seems to be a unique idea. What you are saying is that primary health centers should be based on geographical area mapping and also ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 20 weeks agoShirish Ghadi updated this Competition Entry. |
| 20 weeks agoShirish Ghadi submitted this idea. |
