Mitigating the challenges of introducing a mobile health (mHealth) solution in rural Mozambique by using a community dialogue approach
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Authors: Dieterio Magul, Ester Mboa, Pedro Murroto, Elizabeth Streat, and Sandrine Martin
Mobile technologies should be accompanied by robust community engagement strategies.
The increased use of mobile technologies and services in sub-Saharan Africa offers invaluable opportunities for accelerating development outcomes. To capitalise on them, interventions should be accompanied by robust community engagement strategies. A community dialogue approach successfully and pre-emptively addressed the socio-cultural norms and allayed fears around data collection and use that may otherwise have limited community acceptance and uptake of new mHealth tools in remote and underserved villages in Mozambique.
This poster was presented at the Africa Social and Behaviour Change Conference 2019.
