MNutrition - Business models for mobile phone based delivery of nutrition services in Africa and South Asia

Overview: mNutrition will deliver a range of services including nutrition, agriculture and health messages that support beneficial behaviour change and increase demand for agricultural extension and health services, population-level registration and health risk assessments performed by community health workers. mNutrition will also develop an open source database of nutrition-relevant messages. It will promote business partnerships with mobile network operators through GSMA’s industry positioning and global membership and proven track record for launching mobile services.

Planned for 10 countries in Africa (six New Alliance countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and four additional nutrition priority countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia), as well as four countries in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh).