Mobilizing for Change

IEEE Humanitarian WorkshopOctober 18, 2008

Introduction to theUnited Nations Foundation

Created in 1998 with Ted Turner’s historic

$1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities.

UNCatalyst

UN Foundation Core Platform

PartnershipAdvocacyGrantMaking

The United Nations Foundation is an advocate for the UN and a platform that connects people, ideas and capital

to help the United Nations solve global problems.

• Stopping transmission of wild polio virus 2009

• Reducing Measles mortality 90% by 2010

• Covering the African continent with bednets for malaria prevention

The UN Foundation’s Children’s Health Program works with the UN to help prevent childhood disease and mortality.

• Increasing public and private investment in adolescent girls

• Leveraging resources for in support of universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services and information

• Strengthening United Nations Population Fund

The UN Foundation’s Women and Population program works with the UN to promote gender equality and empower women and girls.

• Bringing about an effective new climate change agreement by 2009

• Doubling the historical rate of energy efficiency globally

• Encouraging clean energy development, especially sustainable bio-energy in the United States and developing nations

The UN Foundation’s Energy and Climate Change program works with the UN to help hurry the world’s transition toward a clean energy economy.

• Educating and engaging the tourism industry, travelers and local communities

• Fostering start-up enterprises that demonstrate sustainable opportunities for communities around World Heritage sites

• Creating market access to improve sustainable livelihoods for communities around World Heritage sites

The UN Foundation’s World Heritage program works with the UN to help conserve World Heritage sites and promotes livelihoods around the communities that depend on them.

•Playing a leading role in employing mobile health solutions to support health systems, health providers and people in need 

•Capacity building to enhance emergency communications preparedness and rapid response to disasters

•Driving thought leadership on the social and economic benefit of mobile in the developing world – through research and innovation

The UN Foundation’s Technology Partnership with Vodafone Foundation works to harnesses mobile technology tackling pressing UN global development and humanitarian challenges

UN Foundation Partnerships

• Strategically leverage business expertise and resources• Fiduciary services facilitate financial commitments• Manage nearly $400 million from dozens of partners

• $30 million Vodafone and UN Foundation commitment • Three focus areas:

• mHealth for Development• Disaster Relief Communications• Innovation and Thought Leadership

mHealth

UNF-VGF Partnership Results

ThoughtLeadership

HumanitarianTechnologyChallenge

DisasterCommunications

• By the end of 2008, our mHealth programs will be implemented in 25 countries in three continents • In Kenya, the World Health Organization has contributed over $150K to scale our existing program throughout the country• Rapid emergency communications response support through WFP and TSF• Capacity building UN ICT emergency preparedness and response - building the first UN wide standard for ICT officers operations in disasters

• A bottom up technology challenge – identifying the technology needs of humanitarian stakeholders “on the ground” and in partnership with IEEE identifying corresponding technology solutions. IEEE’s membership base of 400K will be engaged.• Published two studies focusing on the growing influence of mobile communications and financial access in the developing world and the use of mobile technology within operations of leading NGOs in the developing world

Education&

Awareness

mHealth - Definition

Diagnostics/Consultation

Disease/EmergencyTracking

Monitoring/Compliance

Definition:The delivery of health-related services via mobile communications technology.Examples:- Mobile access to health records - Medication monitoring- Patient monitoring - Outbreak surveillance - Public health alerts - Training for health workers- Nutrition awareness programs - Tracking behavior changes

mHealth: Impact of our WorkOverall • Mobile Software. Working with Datadyne.org and Nokia to create effective mobile tools serving as standards for how WHO collects health data across the world • Cost effective. Reducing cost and increasing effectiveness in how health data is collected • Building sustainable programs. African governments and WHO are financially supporting the expansion of the program

Kenya• mHealth program used during a polio outbreak in Kenya• WHO has contributed financial resources to the program

Zambia• Uncovering low medicine inventory levels – helping the Ministry of Health react quicker to shortages

eHealth

An Opportunity at Bellagio

mHealthOutcomes

Partnership

mHealth

•The Rockefeller Foundation hosted a four-week conference on the topic of eHealth in the developing world

•The month was divided into 8 components of eHealth •The topic of mHealth for Development was scheduled

for the third week of the conference •25 individuals attended representing multiple sectors –

private and public sectors, government, academia and IGOs

•The major outcome for the Bellagio sessions was to create partnerships to advance the eHealth in the developing world

•The development of an mHealth operating and incubation organization

•The construction of four mHealth programs•Over 60 commitments from the meeting participants

Bellagio mHealth ParticipantsPUBLICSECTOR

PRIVATE SECTOR

ACADEMIA&

FOUNDATIONS

GOVERNMENT & THE

UN

The Earth Institute

Microsoft UCSF Vietnamese Ministry of Health

Datadyne.org Qualcomm MIT WHO - WPROCarso Institute

Vodafone UC Berkeley South African Ministry of Health

CGAP Nokia Gates Foundation

Google.org Cisco/Nethope

Apollo Telemedicine Foundation

Cell-Life GSMA Rockefeller Foundation

AED-Satellife Voxiva UN FoundationD-tree Google Vodafone

Foundation

• Unanimous agreement and support from Bellagio attendees• Mission and vision statements developed and agreed• Funding and sponsorship committed• Commitments from >5 globally recognized organizations for

membership• Announce the creation of an mHealth Alliance at GSMA in

Barcelona

Agreement to construct an mHealth Alliance

• mDoc – A Hospital in your hands• mHealth for Positive Living – HIV treatment, Wellness and

Support• CommCare – Tools for community health workers• Breakout – Ending the cycle of outbreaks

Four pioneering mHealth programs defined by Bellagio participants

mHealth Meeting Outcomes

mHealth Alliance

• Serve as the leading global advocate for mHealth in developing countries• Define the landscape of mHealth and develop standards for mHealth practitioners• Develop the business case for mHealth – providing information and best practices for the private and public sector to invest in and implement sustainable mHealth programs• Help ensure the policy environment is conducive for mHealth programs to be executed • Working with performance measurement and evaluation experts to rigorously measure program impact considering cost benefits and other indicators for success• Fund innovative mHealth programs executed by multi-sector partnerships

Activities

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