News item by Akvo: On 24 and 25 of April Akvo gave an Akvo Really Simple Reporting (RSR) workshop for the Dutch WASH Alliance (DWA) partners in Tamale, Ghana. From the WASH Alliance eight partners working on water, sanitation and hygiene projects around Tamale were present, we also hosted six participants from the Connect4Change consortium [...]
News item by TTC: In Bolivia now several mobile C4C programs are being started by Text to Change and the partner organizations. With the organizations PROINPA, IFRA, CEPAC and Casa de la Mujer the sending out of information via SMS has already been started. This varies from sending out pest information for farmers for the [...]
Blog item by Akvo’s Kathelyne van den Berg: On the 21 and 22 february I gave a Workshop for the Connect4Change (C4C) Consortium education sector partners in the Copperbelt, Kitwe, Zambia. The workshop was organised together with my Connect4Change colleagues Theresa Stanton (IICD) and Tjeerd de Boer (Edukans). The trip from Lusaka to the Copperbelt [...]
News item by TTC: Here you can watch a video interview with Ntilila Chaila and Sam Phiri of SMSize the technical partner of Text to Change in Zambia. SMSize helps Text to Change applying for a short code and contracts with the telecom operators.
Watch here a video of our Ugandan C4C partner Health Child on “Using mobile phones to improve community knowledge on maternal and child health“.
News item by Akvo: Here are Akvo’s six top tips on how to compose a great update that keeps people informed and interested about what’s going on with your project. 1. Tell the project’s story – what’s happening now? 2. Include a picture and/or a video – an update with an image is so much [...]
Blog by Kathelyne van den Berg, Akvo: The thing that really sticked from our Really Simple Video training during the C4C workshop was that a simple video is less than 3 minutes or as Mark Charmer calls it in his Spanish “Menos de Tres Menutos”. All the partners were joking about this but this also [...]
News item by Text to Change: On World Aids Day, 1st December 2011, the first Connect4Change program in Uganda officially kicked off for Text to Change and Health Child. The C4C program with Health Child targets pregnant women and the community in the Eastern region of Uganda, Jinja. There are still high rates of child [...]
Blog by Mark Charmer, Akvo: I’m 12,000 feet up in the Andes this week in the dramatic Bolivian city of La Paz, with South American partners in the Connect 4 Change (C4C) consortium. Over the coming four years C4C is bringing online close to 50 million Euro of Dutch development aid projects, focused on health, [...]
John Stephen Agbenyo (@agbedela on Twitter), executive director of Connect4Change Ghana partner SavSign, has been making great use of Akvo RSR to keep people up to date on progress. He’s posted some lovely updates, including a couple about an inter-school ICT quiz, complete with a video clip of the teams competing. He’s also put a [...]
