Texting for Maternal Wellbeing: Use of Mobile Phones by CHWs to Offer Family Planning Services

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This report summarizes an innovative mobile health application piloted among community health workers (CHWs) and health center staff to improve contraceptive prevalence in Benin’s Toffo and Zè communes. URC's non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services, conducted the pilot through the USAID-supported Partnership for Community Management of Child Health (PRISE-C) project.

A community health worker (right) shares family planning counseling messages with her clients using a mobile phone application
A community health worker (right) shares family planning counseling messages with her clients using a mobile phone application
Approaches 

Health Communication and Behavior Change

Research and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise 

Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

Reproductive Health and Family Planning

Food and Nutrition

Related Projects 
Partnership for the Community Management of Child Health (Partenariat pour la Prise en Charge Communautaire de la Santé Infantile Prise-C)
Resource Type 
Publications
Project Reports
Regions/ Countries 
Benin
Language 
English