The MAPS Toolkit: mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale
We are proud to present this mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) Toolkit to help advance discussions on how to scale up mobile health (mHealth) innovations and maximize their impact on outcomes for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.
To mobilize global commitment and spur progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health in 2010. The Strategy called all partners to action, resulting in the unprecedented movement Every Woman Every Child (EWEC), which generated hundreds of financial, policy and service delivery commitments from governments, civil society, donors, and the private sector. Innovation was among the key areas highlighted in the Strategy where action was urgently required. The EWEC Innovation Working Group (IWG) has been instrumental in taking this agenda forward, not least by supporting the adoption and scaling up of mHealth solutions that strengthen the availability of essential health interventions that save women and children’s lives.