Implementing Partners

Implementing partners aim to build a new model of care with demonstrated evidence for impact and scalability. They are interested in pioneering data-driven approaches to achieve the desired community health outcomes.

Characteristics and Strengths

• May have influence and reach with the government to adopt and scale-up the new model of care
• Have a good understanding of the health needs of communities
• Have an appreciation for the role of digital technology in healthcare
• May have deployed, or are planning to deploy, digital health tools in the community health space
• Support government’s CHW networks, and may have fielded their own cadre of CHWs
• Are leveraging data and data science to innovate on new approaches to achieving desired health outcomes
• Have access to health systems data from the deployment of a new model of care
• May possess existing capacity, or are looking to build, the in-house capacity to deploy and implement digital health tools
• May have already invested significantly in proprietary locked-in software
• Keen to attract funding from large funders
• May have a presence in multiple countries

Values

• Equitable access to quality health care
• Developing national and local capacities
• Cost-effectiveness
• Government and donor relations
• Harmonization and alignment to the national health strategies
• Integration with national digital health platforms
• Government adoption and ownership of their model of care

Needs

• Government support and buy-in
• Funder backing and resources to design and deploy digital health programs
• HCD and data science capabilities
• May need further understanding and expertise in working with CHT and opensource tools