Product/Service Development

KMET is developing a business plan for CMHI and a strategic plan for ESM-UBT in Kenya. In the next 9-12 months the team specifically intend to understand and then identifying priority market segment, optimize market segments and sales opportunities. develop a robust ESM-UBT supply chain both in the public and private sectors, validate unit economics of ESM-UBT and secure medium and ultimately long term public good and/or other innovative financing vehicles.

QFS builds off a proprietary microencapsulation technology to quadruple the fortification of salt with iron, folic acid, B12 and iodine. QFS' design is based on the proven premise that the deficiencies of iodine, iron, folic acid and vitamin B12 pose a significant health risk, and that deficiencies of these specific micronutrients are especially harmful to women of childbearing age, and are a major contributing factor to both maternal and infant mortality and morbidity.

In 2015, an estimated 2.7 million newborn deaths occurred worldwide, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under 5 years. To improve newborn survival, the scale-up of interventions that are effective at reducing neonatal death is crucial.

This model leverages women's social networks to extend supply chain at the last mile in delivery of enhanced complementary foods to mothers of children aged 6-24 months. Bulky enhanced commercially available complementary food is hygienically re-packaged to small quantities, and sold door to door by trained women entrepreneurs. The women entrepreneurs train mothers on proper food nutrition and age-appropriate complementary foods.

Fyodor has commercialized the Urine Malaria Test (UMT) - the first and only non-blood dipstick test that tells within 25 minutes if a fever is malaria, and works just like a pregnancy test. With the UMT, we are making it possible for anyone with a fever to be promptly tested, particularly in settings where access to formal healthcare facilities may be limited. In this project, we aim to roll out the UMT at scale and expand access to malaria testing in emerging markets.

StrongMinds treats depression in women in Uganda through a community-based talk therapy model based on group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G). IPT-G emphasizes interpersonal relationships as the root of, and source of recovery from, depression.

Saral's innovation, Swachh (which means hygiene in Hindi), is a compact machine designed to produce quality, affordable, disposable menstrual pads through a decentralized manufacturing structure. Saral also provides MHM education and awareness campaigns delivered through after-school programs and via trained village health workers known as Sanginis.

Worldwide, 225 million women have unmet contraceptive needs. Contraceptive implants are increasing in popularity; however, uptake is slowed because most Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) cannot administer implants. The SubQ Assist is designed to facilitate this task-shifting by ensuring a safe and accurate administration after almost no training, dramatically changing the availability of implants to underserved women.

Clean Team Ghana Ltd (CTG) is a Kumasi based social enterprise, providing Container Based Sanitation (CBS) services in Kumasi. CTG provides a quality plastic toilet to the customer; who pays a small weekly fee for a “swap and go" service. CTG waste collectors collect the waste weekly, by sealing the used cartridge and replacing it with a fresh one. The waste is then transported to KMA's sewage works, where it is safely disposed.

Safi Sana (Ghana) Limited has developed an innovative municipal scale wastemanagement model by using fecal waste as a raw material to generate value-added end products.