Antara - Akshada Monitoring Tool

About the Partner Organization

The Antara Foundation works on maternal and child health and nutrition, in partnership with the government of Rajasthan. This entails that we haven’t instituted any parallel system of service delivery but work on strengthening existing system, for benefits to be sustainable. This is done by improving

• skills of frontline workers
• infrastructure, equipment and supplies at facilities, among other interventions.

Background

They primarily work in Jhalawar and Baran districts of Rajasthan, each of which is divided into 6-7 blocks. Each block has around 50 health sub-centres, catering to around 200 villages. Services are provided at the grassroots by 3 women; Auxillary Nurse and Midwife (ANM), at the Sub Centre level, Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and Anganwadi Worker (AWW) at the village level. Please refer to our website for detailed information on our work, focussing on our flagship Akshada program.

Video: https://youtu.be/mGm0Z_JM80g

Scope

DataKindBLR has partnered with Antara to help build a custom data dashboard in our 2017 Sprint(April-June) to better track maternal and child health indicators ideally on a district map by:

• Developing easily readable snapshots of one time data
  • Eg. Profiles of Health sub-centres on infrastructure, utilities, equipment and suppl
    • Classify sub centers as per pre-defined indicators
    • Sub center Gap analysis (needs to be defined)
    • Update on higher risk pregnancies (according to a formula)
• Developing easily readable and actionable dashboards to track changes in periodically updated data
  • Eg. Dynamic dashboards tracking change across 5 indicators (updated monthly) for select sub-centres

Approach

• We have recieved detailed data dictionary from Antara and would work on a dummy data for the scope of this collaboration.
• We are working to generate village boundaries for Rajasthan so that we can visualize these indicators on Map.
• We would be working to fork another DataKind Project, CBGA Story Generator and furbish for our scope in subsequent weekends.

Development Setup:

Prerequisites

• NodeJS (v4.4.3)

• Clone this repository. - git clone https://github.com/cbgaindia/story-generator.git or download the zip
• Change to the repo directory - cd story-generator
• Install Node Packages. - npm install
• Run the app. - npm start -s
• Generate Build - npm run build

Contributing

• Fork and submit pull requests (standard GitHub OSS house rules)

Contributors who worked on CBGA Story Generator

• Akshay Verma
• Navya B. Raju
• Noopur Varma
• Ranjeet Singh
• Suchismita Naik
• Teja Srivastav
• Chetana Amancharla

Join Us

We are looking for volunteers experienced in Python, React.js, Design and Map Skills. Please join us on Slack where have a dedicated channel for live conversation on the project. We would soon update the contribution guidelines here.

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