Product/Service Development

Be Girl's innovation is a line of high-performance, reusable menstrual products. Be Girl's product line includes the PeriodPantyTM(patented two-in-one underwear and reliable period protection), FlexiPad™ (reusable, leak-proof sanitary pad) and the SmartCycle® tool (wearable menstrual tracker that puts knowledge about the menstrual cycle in the hands of the user). Be Girl also conducts interactive, educational MHM workshops with adolescents in school.

Our intervention integrates evidence-based approaches for maternal, newborn, and child health, focused on the “golden 1000 days" from conception through age two through two key components: 1) an integrated hospital-to-home healthcare model utilizing Community Health Workers and 2) Continuous surveillance of all pregnancies and children via an integrated electronic health record.

NeoBreathe is the world's first foot operated newborn resuscitation system, and empowers frontline health workers to save lives of newborns with birth asphyxia. It is being manufactured and sold commercially across countries, seeks funds to build and test a scaling plan to reach impact at scale. This frees one hand of the user from the task of bag compression - thus allowing the single operator, for the first time ever, to hold the face-mask with both hands.

HappyTap designs and markets behaviour change products that improve hygiene practices of Base of Pyramid consumers. Our integrated innovation is inspired by behavior change theory - we integrate the latest thinking into a physical product, its accessories, and key marketing messages. We use commercial distribution to maximize user buy-in and ongoing use, and to enable a sustainable solution at scale.

Millions of children in low resource settings are at high risk of poor development due to factors such as undernutrition, inadequate stimulation and maternal depression. Evidence based interventions to address these risk factors exist, but often as a separate and overlapping packages delivered through disjointed systems, therefore posing problems in scale-up. We propose three innovations to address this.

Approximately 14 million infants per year in low to middle income countries (LMIC) are at risk from neonatal jaundice (NNJ) progressing to extreme hyperbilirubinemia (EHB) and brain damage. Nearly 80% of the 481,000 cases of EHB are in LMIC because infants are identified too late or health facility treatment is inaccessible or inadequate. New, low-cost, easy to use screening and phototherapy treatment technologies enable our proposed redesign of care delivery in LMIC to save infant brains.

Adolescent mothers experience greater parental stress and are less cognitively prepared for parenting compared with adult mothers, impacting cognitive development in their children. This is a sustainable home-based child stimulation training, and child nutrition for vulnerable adolescent mothers using a peer-led social marketing model championed by adolescent mothers, “Adolescent Mother Cheer leaders" (AMCLs) who will be trained on use of social marketing popular with adolescents (facebook, whatapp, sms) to design appropriate child stimulation activities to share in networks.

Globally, one in every 100 children lives with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, majority of the children reside in lower middle-come countries (LMICs) and remain undetected and untreated, due to lack of awareness, services and skilled resources.

Globally, over 200 million children under 5 are not reaching their developmental potential due to poverty and lack of ECD services. The aeioTU educational model has proven to close the development gap between children of high and low income families; when sharing it with others, it has proven to enhance educational practices. By scaling the model globally, we will be able to secure every child has a fair start in life, creating a better future for themselves and their families.

Informal daycares make up 83% of child-facing institutions operating in underprivileged neighborhoods; most are squalid, not-fit-for-purpose. Despite the poverty of service, working mothers still pay to leave their children in them, bereft of alternatives. Tiny Totos partners with these childcare providers and through training and technical and financial support, support them to provide safe, secure and stimulating environments for children.