Address at

On 26th July, 2013

Rajendra Pratap Gupta Co-Chair , IWG-A

Harnessing the power of innovations to accelerate progress

towards achieving the health MDGs

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Mission & Vision

• Created in 2010 by the UN Secretary General

• Aims to harness the power of innovations & accelerate progress towards achieving the health MDGs in support of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.

• A global hub for innovation

• Catalyst for initiating and enabling the scale up of cost-effective innovations

• Innovations across technological, social, financial, policy and business domains.

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Organization Structure – IWG Global

• The IWG is maintained as a broad network of interested partners with a small secretariat, working through partner organizations.

• Partners represent government, non-government, profit and non-profit private-sector and development agencies

• Co Chairs – Government of Norway & Johnson & Johnson

• Thematic work streams led by participating stakeholders

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Innovation Working Group Asia (aIWG)

• Launched on May 28, 2013 in conjunction with ‘Women Deliver 2013’ in Kuala Lumpur.

• Organized as a workstream of the Global IWG.

• Co Chairs

1. Mark Kelly, Senior Operations Director, South Asia, World Vision

International

2. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, International Health Policy Expert & President,

Disease Management Association of India.

• Facilitated by a coordinator and supported by the Global IWG secretariat in Partnership, for Maternal , Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH ), WHO, Geneva.

• Network of members/partners

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• Focused on Maternal Child Health Space

• Public sector Partnership

• Private sector Partnership

• CSR initiatives

Scope of Partnership

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• ICTs - Telemedicine & mHealth

• Nutrition

• Demand Creation

• South South Collaboration

Current Focus – Thematic Areas

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Opportunities

• Asia has largest numbers of women and children impacted by MDGs 4 &5.

• Leveraging existing innovations ie Nutrition .

• Universal health coverage in terms of both conceptual development and implementation is showing remarkable advance in the region.

• The technological development in Asia within mobile technology and ICT will add value to the IWG workstream on e/mHealth.

• Growing economies in the region

• Strong development of corporate social responsibility.

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Value to our Partners

• Provide neutral meeting place for multi-stakeholders pursuing shared value in the space of maternal child health.

• Initiate thematic work-streams based on priorities identified for the region

• Facilitate shared experiences of stakeholders

• Stimulate on going and vibrant regional consultation between stakeholders

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Membership

• Share Experience

• Share Expertise

• Share Resources

• Stimulate Discussion on important issues

• Support the Cause

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ICT preparedness toolkit

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Why this toolkit ?

• There is a need and a high level of interest to use mHealth / ICT based interventions for RMNCH

• Since this is a recent development & due to lack of credible

resources , there is a hesitation to start such ICT based interventions

• Are these new resources ?

• No, they are based on existing works and frame works, like WHO work on developing application for safe care at delivery

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Can we use ICTs to improve coverage & quality of RMNCH interventions?

• Some countries are still facing challenges in achieving certain MDG RMNCH related targets.

• There is clear evidence about what needs to be done (a package of essential low-cost interventions that have been demonstrated to work).

• Partners want to come together in a multi-stakeholder setting to scale-up, improve or deliver more effectively these interventions.

• We want to see how ICTs/mHealth innovations can be leveraged in this context.

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The challenge: Lot’s of activity, different stakeholder perspectives, no dialogue

• Hundreds, if not thousands of ICT and mHealth pilots.

• Not that many demonstrable scaled-up use of ICT/mHealth innovations at State or National levels.

• A larger health ecosystem that is more complex than innovators are sometimes used to (e.g. community level is not the same as national level).

• There are stakeholders with very different perspectives and agendas involved (Government, NGOs, International Agencies, Commercial operators, Implementers etc.)

• Critical questions are not being asked and there is a lack of dialogue between different stakeholders.

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A response: Stakeholders review ICT/mHealth preparedness/readiness

Develop an instrument that encourages dialogue between different stakeholders, ensures that

critical questions are on the table for discussion, and provides access to resources, tools,

guidance, case studies etc. to help countries understand what needs to happen to leverage

the potential of ICTs/mHealth at scale.

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A workbook that brings together resources, opinion and guidance

• Bring health innovators, operators, sponsors and end-users to the table

• Guide stakeholders through a logical process of exploring key questions

• Encourage stakeholders to use tools, resources and assets that already exist (e.g. WHO, GSMA, mHealth Alliance, IWG)

• Focus on what can be done given where we are, not what can’t be done because we’re not ready.

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Synergies

• AeHIN is a platform for eHealth professionals from Asia

• IWG-A is working on developing the Telemedicine road map for Asia

• We can work together in making this happen faster

• Ideas for collaboration welcome

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For more information, visit: www.everywomaneverychild.org/iwg

Rajendra Pratap Gupta

Co-chair president@dmai.org.in

Mark Kelly Co-Chair

mark_kelly@wvi.org Terry Leong Coordinator

Email: terry_leong@wvi.org Twitter: @iwg4health

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