Implementing an mHealth app to combat hypertension in India's vulnerable populations

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand how to build and implement information and communication technology (i.e. ICT) to help vulnerable people when significant social, cultural and economic barriers exist between the stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachThe authors followed an action research approach to design and implement a mobile health hypertension education application to help India's most vulnerable populations. The authors used interpretive analysis, guided by the sustainable livelihoods framework, to uncover key findings.FindingsSuccessfully implementing information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) requires understanding that all stakeholders (i.e. donors, facilitators and the beneficiaries) have important assets to contribute. Facilitators play an important role in connecting donors to the beneficiaries and fostering cultural humility in donors so that the donors will understand the role beneficiaries play in success. Stakeholders may use the ICT4D in unintended ways that both improve the people's health and increase some beneficiaries' financial livelihood.Research limitations/implicationsThis research expands the definition of information systems success when implementing ICT4D in resource-constrained environments. Success is more than creating an mHealth app that was easy for beneficiaries to use and where they learned based on a pre- and post-test statistical analysis. Success involved development in all the stakeholders impacted by the social innovation collaboration. For the beneficiary community, success included getting screened for noncommunicable diseases as a first step toward treatment. For the facilitator, success involved more resources for their community health program. Amongst the donors, success was a change in perspective and learning cultural humility.Practical implicationsAlthough universities encourage faculty to work in interdisciplinary research teams to address serious world problems, university researchers may have to exert considerable effort to secure contracts, approvals and payments. Unfortunately, universities may not reward this effort to build ICT4D and continue to evaluate faculty based on journal publications. When universities undertake social innovation collaborations, administrators should ensure responsive and flexible university processes as well as appropriate academic reward structures are in place. This need is heightened when collaborations involve international partners with limited resources and time needed to build relationships and understanding across cultures.Social implicationsThis study discovered the importance of fostering cultural humility as a way of avoiding potential conflicts that may arise from cultural and power differences. Cultural humility moves the focus of donor-beneficiary relationships away from getting comfortable with “them” to taking actions that develop relationships and address vulnerabilities (Fisher-Borne et al., 2015). This research shows how the facilitator helped the donor develop cultural humility by involving the donor in various initiatives with the beneficiary community including allowing the donor to live in a dormitory at the hospital, work in an urban slum and visit health screening campus.Originality/valueThis study (1) extends the ICT4D literature by incorporating cultural humility into the sustainable livelihoods framework, (2) provides a contextual understanding of developing cultural humility in ICT4D projects with a complex group of stakeholders and (3) describes how facilitators become a catalyst for change and a bridge to the community. The culturally humble approach suggests revising the livelihood framework to eliminate words like “the poor” to describe beneficiaries.

Welfare Beneficiary Community BUMDes Karya Dermawan Dusun Dalam Village

Dusun Dalam Village Government established a Village-Owned Enterprise (BUMDes) Karya Dermawan is a policy utilization. The main pillar was established BUMDes Karya Dermawan in accordance with the mandate of the objectives whose activities were oriented to encourage the welfare of the village community. Therefore, this study was conducted aimed at looking at the welfare provided by BUMDes Karya Dermawan Dusun Dalam village especially to the beneficiary community and compare the level of welfare before and after BUMDes Karya Dermawan was established. This study uses a descriptive quantitative approach, and data sourced from primary data by using Paired Sample t-Test as a data analysis tool. This study shows that BUMDes Karya Dermawan provides welfare to the beneficiary communities through businesses that have been established including Cooperatives; Alsintan; and Workshop, which is directly able to change or succeed in providing an increase in welfare for the beneficiary community after the establishment of BUMDes as evidenced by the results of the Paried Sample t-Test analysis. With this evidence of success, for all elements should give intensive attention; so that the development of BUMDes Karya Dermawan exists even more as a driver of community welfare. And also, integratedly invites and becomes a valuable lesson for existing villages to establish BUMDes or villages that already have BUMDes, but have not succeeded in providing a common thread for the welfare of their citizens.

Program Peningkatan Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak Melalui Dukungan Kegiatan Posyandu

Posyandu activities need to get support from all parties. Posyandu aims to support government programs in improving the health status of the community, especially mothers and children. Posyandu activities are organized by village midwives and help by village cadres. Without the support of all parties including stakeholders and the beneficiary community, Posyandu activities are difficult to succeed. This program includes the provision of standard posyandu equipment, the provision of educational game facilities for children, additional feeding, and health promotion. Program activities are carried out through a number of strategies. Finally, the success and sustainability of the program on the support of all parties.Abstrak. Kegiatan Posyandu perlu mendapat dukungan dari semua pihak. Posyandu bertujuan untuk mendukung program Pemerintah dalam peningkatan status kesehatan masyarakat khususnya Ibu dan anak. Kegiatan Posyandu diselenggarakan oleh Bidan desa, dan beberapa orang Kader desa. Tanpa dukungan semua pihak termasuk pemangku kepentingan dan masyarakat penerima manfaat, kegiatan Posyandu sulit berhasil. Program pengabdian ini meliputi penyediaan peralatan standar posyandu, penyediaan sarana permainan edukatif untuk anak, pemberian makanan tambahan, dan penyuluhan kesehatan. Program kegiatan dilakukan melalui sejumlah strategi. Akhirnya, keberhasilan dan keberlanjutan program atas dukungan kerjasama semua pihak.

Analisa persepsi penerima program BSPS Nagari Bungo Pasang Salido Kecamatan IV Jurai Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan

The state is responsible for protecting the entire Indonesian nation through the implementation of housing and settlement areas so that people are able to live and occupy decent and affordable houses in a healthy, safe, harmonious and sustainable environment throughout Indonesia. Implementation of Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) is carried out through activities to improve the quality of self-help houses and the construction of new self-help houses as well as incentives for the construction of new self-help houses in the form of infrastructure, facilities and public utilities. One of the areas targeted by the BSPS program is Nagari Bungo Pasang Salido. This study aims to 1). evaluate the results of the implementation of the BSPS Program and see the results of its achievements in terms of security and standard housing structures for beneficiaries, 2). improve the quality of basic research results and produce scientific publications in reputable international scientific journals. This research uses the direct method by distributing questionnaires to the recipients of the BSPS program assistance. The results of this research show that the study of the achievement of the BSPS program for the beneficiary community is very good, with a questionnaire result with a percentage of 100%. The study on the safety of beneficiaries in occupying a house that is suitable for habitation with the feasibility of a fairly good structure, where the average percentage is 76.5% consisting of 7 indicators with 6 indicators worth 100% and 1 indicator worth 35.7%. The results of the Achievement of the Standards for Habitable House Structures for the BSPS Program in Structure Development, the average result is 97.19% consisting of 14 indicators.

The Impact of Transformation of Social Assistance on Financial Inclusion and Welfare of Beneficiary Families

This study is based on the transformation of the distribution of cash social assistance into non-cash in the City of Tegal. The non-cash distribution is by using a banking account that has a combo card facility, which is a multi-function card that can be used as an ATM card as well as disbursement of social assistance. There is a slice of the objectives of the non-cash transaction referred to as an alternative to accelerate the increase in financial inclusion of the Indonesian population as stated in the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion with the financial inclusion index indicator. This study aims to determine the impact of the transformation of the distribution of social assistance on financial inclusion in Tegal City and the welfare of beneficiary families (KPM). Primary data were collected from questionnaires that have been filled in by KPM and secondary data were obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Representative Office of Bank Indonesia Tegal. The analytical tool used is a quantitative approach to KPM's response to the distribution of non-cash social assistance. As supporting data, in the problem of financial inclusion, analysis tools are used by qualitatively comparing financial inclusion that is generated as a result of the implementation of the distribution of non-cash social assistance to existing financial inclusion. The analysis shows that the acceptance and perception of KPM supports the transformation of non-cash social assistance distribution, this is supported by KPM's interest in using combo cards as a means of saving. On the other hand, the transformation of the distribution of social assistance to non-cash contributes to financial inclusion in the city of Tegal, namely the Agent Laku Pandai (LKD) contributing 75.20% to banking financial services in Tegal City. From the 4 Welfare Indicator Classifications, it is found that the welfare of KPM has experienced changes in welfare after receiving non-cash social assistance and has improved the welfare of the beneficiary community (KPM).Keywords : Non-Cash Social Assistance, PKH, BPNT

The Map of Need: identifying and predicting the spatial distribution of financial hardship in Scotland’s veteran community

IntroductionDuring military service, many household costs for both married and single service personnel are subsidised, and transition can leave veterans unprepared for the financial demands of civilian life. Armed Forces organisations such as Sailor, Soldier, Air Force Association (SSAFA) play a central role in understanding the financial challenges that UK veterans face and provide an insight into the financial hardship experienced by veterans. The aim of this study was to use SSAFA beneficiary data as a proxy to identify the nature of financial benefit, the spatial distribution of financial hardship in the Scottish SSAFA beneficiary community and explore factors that might predict where those recipients are located.MethodsUsing an anonymised data set of Scottish SSAFA financial beneficiaries between 2014 and 2019, this study used a geographical methodology to identify the geospatial distribution of SSAFA benefit recipients and exploratory regression analysis to explore factors to explain where SSAFA beneficiaries are located.ResultsOver half of benefit applicants (n=10 735) were concentrated in only 50 postcode districts, showing evidence of a clustered pattern, and modelling demonstrates association with area-level deprivation. The findings highlight strong association between older injured veterans and need for SSAFA beneficiary assistance.ConclusionThe findings demonstrate that beneficiaries were statistically clustered into areas of high deprivation, experiencing similar challenges to that of the wider population in these areas. Military service injury or disability was strongly associated with areas of high SSAFA benefit use and in those areas high unemployment was also a significant factor to consider.

KINERJA ORGANISASI PENGELOLA TINGKAT MASYARAKAT DALAM PEMANFAATAN DAN PEMELIHARAAN HASIL PROGRAM SANIMAS DI KELURAHAN KAPALO KOTO KOTA PADANG

This research is motivated by environmental pollution because many people do not yet have access to proper domestic wastewater sanitation. Kapalo Koto Village is one of the priority villages in handling sanitation in Padang City. The results showed that of the four variables proposed by Wibowo, it can be concluded that the Performance of Community Level Management Organizations in the Utilization and Maintenance of the Results of the SANIMAS Program in the Kapalo Koto Village Padang City has not yet reached its maximized. Utilization and maintenance activities of the SANIMAS Program result in the Kapalo Koto Village experienced several obstacles. Caused by several indicators that have not been maximized, such as the capability of low Community Level Management Organizations, sources of funding from beneficiary community contributions for program maintenance and development are not collected. The implementation of utilization and maintenance activities is still not routinely carried out. Continued monitoring is not conducted regularly and evaluation activities are not carried out annually. However, if seen from the benefits generated by the SANIMAS Program it has an impact on reducing pollution to the residential environment, thereby causing an increase in the level of public health. Keywords: Performance, Management Organizations, SANIMAS Program

The Relationship between Policy Design and Poverty Reduction: How the Design of Social Protection Programmes Address the Needs of the Poor in Ghana

The implementation of social protection programmes has seen some significant success in poverty reduction among nations. This notwithstanding, there are some challenges in the designing of these programmes that sometimes defeat their intended purposes. For this reason, there is the need for a further consideration on the design of social protection programmes in reaching the poor. This paper assesses how the design of social protection programmes in Ghana takes into consideration the needs of the poor and other intended beneficiaries. The study adopts the concepts of social protection designs by Norton, et al (2001) and the beneficiary-targeting approaches by Rama and Dean (2016) to compare and assess how Ghana’s programmes are designed. This is purely a qualitative study that interviewed 20 respondents with adequate knowledge on the design of the social protection programmes. The study revealed that generally, in Ghana, the design processes of social protection programmes adopt more institutional-consultation approach than beneficiary/community-level consultation. On the part of selecting beneficiaries for social protection however, programmes like LEAP, School Feeding and the Capitation Grants were community based, that allow representatives of communities to select beneficiaries for the programme. The design of social protection programmes should be responsive to the needs of their intended beneficiaries, there is therefore, the need for broader consultations with the targeted beneficiaries. Consultations should, hence, not just be limited at the institutional levels.

Communication Accommodation in the Empowerment and Village Program by Ademos in Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia

In mentoring The Empowerment and Village Empowerment, the skills of a facilitator in communication are needed. There is communication accommodation in every interpersonal relationship that is built. This research uses a case study method with several sources and sources of data. This study found that convergence and divergence occurred clearly in every relationship built by the facilitator and the beneficiary community. Convergence and divergence play an important role in creating closeness and sustainability of relationships.

Evaluate the Factors Related to the Level of Community Satisfaction on Community Empowerment Activities

This research aims to analyze the empowerment programs, activities and evaluate the factors related to the level of community satisfaction towards empowerment program. Location of the study was determined by purposive method in the Karangsari Village, Sapuran District, Wonosobo Regency. Respondents in this study were 26 people who were taken by purposive which is the community that received the empowerment program. The correlation analysis (rank spearman) is used to determine the relation between factors with the level of community satisfaction. The results of the analysis showed that most of the programs implemented were about waste management, where the empowerment activities carried out were mostly socialization, and the beneficiary community in the empowerment program were the general public. Factors related to satisfaction level such as accuracy of innovation, problem solving assistance, community confidence in the success of the program and community perception that empowerment gives positive values in the form of new knowledge, changes in behavior and attitudes, and can improve the economy The accuracy of the innovation, the mentoring process, the belief in the success of the program and the added value has a correlation with the level of community satisfaction with the 99% confidence level.