The Connect4Change consortium together with preferred partner Text to Change has developed a programme for the years 2011-2015 that focuses on the following objectives:
- Improve the income and employment opportunities of small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs through better access to markets and financial services and improved productivity by using ICT
- Improve the quality and equity of the education system through the integration of ICT in primary, secondary education, teacher and vocational training with a special focus on girls.
- Improve the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of the health care system through an integrated introduction of ICT in health care services and community health with a special focus on health rights for women and girls.
To reach these objectives the consortium will make use of three different intervention strategies: direct poverty alleviation, civil society building, and lobby and advocacy. These strategies entail the following activities and interventions:
- Integration and up-scaling of ICT in development programmes.
- Ensure the innovative application of combined ICTs in development programmes in collaboration with specialised partner organisations in the North.
- Facilitate effective knowledge sharing and learning among Southern and Northern partners by bundling ICT-based learning and reporting approaches.
- Sharing policies, methodologies and good practices among members and with other actors. Mobilise popular support for holding governments accountable through the use of ICT.
- The activities of the consortium are carried out in the countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Peru, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
For more information about the proposed activities of the Connect4Change consortium we would like to refer you to the complete MFSII management summary phase 1 (PDF 85kb)
