NEW E-LEARNING COURSES FOR MATERNAL & CHILD SURVIVAL PROGRAMME WELL RECEIVED

Successful launch of child and maternal healthcare courses

Through our ongoing partnership with Jhpiego, Mwabu have developed e-learning courses for healthcare providers in Zambia working in maternal and child healthcare. This project is part of the Maternal & Child Survival Programme (MCSP), a multi-partner, flagship program in support of USAID’s priority goal of preventing child and maternal deaths.

This month marks the successful completion and launch of four new e-learning courses, covering:

  • Antenatal Care
  • Maternal, Adolescent, Infant and Young Child Nutrition
  • Consolidated HIV
  • Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition - Out Patient Care

Jhpiego partners with the Zambia Ministry of Health (MoH) to deliver the project; the courses have been well received by the MoH team and will now be implemented in training to bring up-to-date information to the hands of frontline health workers. 

Each course consists of interactive digital content with engaging artwork, voicing and video. Each module includes case studies so understanding can be applied to real-life examples, plus assessment in the form of knowledge checks. Mwabu’s solution tracks the progress of learners as they work through the digital content and includes tests to be completed before and after training, so that learning outcomes can be evaluated.

Mwabu designs bespoke e-learning content across a wide range of topics, with public or private sector organisations. To date Mwabu has designed content for a range of organizations in Zambia, from healthcare to wildlife conservation.

In Zambia MCSP has supported the Government in implementing its reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health and nutrition programme in four provinces through: 

  • Targeted technical assistance to district health offices;
  • Collaborating with Zambian organisations for institutional strengthening; and 
  • Developing e-learning courses for frontline healthcare providers. 

The programme aims to increase the availability, demand and uptake of high-quality health and nutrition services for mothers, newborns, children and adolescents, and strengthen health systems at the national and sub-national levels.

Survey Indicates Teachers Want Tech!

23 October 2024

In a recent pilot of our survey tool, focussed on foundational learning, we collected data on the availability of teaching and learning resources, teachers’ training and support needs, availability of technology (smartphones, tablets, computers) as well teachers’ beliefs and willingness relating to technology use in the classroom.   Our preliminary findings show that despite recent large-scale interventions, teaching and learning resources remain limited, for example there is one reading book per 3-5 learners in 46% of classrooms. This, together with learner absenteeism are the most prevalent challenges faced by teachers. The most requested forms of support are training on literacy teaching methods and provision of numeracy materials. 

Time + Tide Report on Fantastic Learner Progress.

16 October 2024

Mwabu congratulates the Time + Tide Foundation Girls Club for the fantastic improvements they have achieved in their Girls Club literacy programme in Liuwa Plain. After one year of using the Mwabu Learn app as part of an after-school programme aimed at improving low literacy levels of girls, the 2023 cohort scored a collective average of 53% on their literacy assessments – a significant increase from the baseline at 27%.

Digital Sexual Reproductive Health Education.

23 September 2024

Mwabu’s product team has created a few sample modules and developed a draft course outline for a new interactive digital course to support dissemination of crucial information about sexual reproductive health (SRH) to adolescents across Zambia and beyond. We have taken these steps as we are aware of the urgency and need for relevant, sensitive and appropriate education content relating to this topic. We also know that individual organisations working in this area seldom have the funds required for investment in a full digital course so, as part of this initiative, we are exploring alternative funding models to enable contributions to development from several sources.