The Challenge Jharkhand, one of India’s most health-challenged states, faces persistently high neonatal mortality rates driven by inadequate postnatal care, limited health worker capacity, and fragmented data systems. The Home Based Newborn Care (HBNC) programme, a critical Government of India initiative, deploys community health workers known as Sahiyas (ASHAs) to conduct home visits for newborns…
The Challenge Reducing neonatal mortality to single digits is a key Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). In Jharkhand, 38% of deliveries were conducted at home, and many mothers returned home within hours of facility deliveries. This meant home-based newborn care was essential for averting neonatal deaths through early detection of danger signs and appropriate care for…
The Challenge Building on the successful deployment of the HBNC monitoring system in 2018, UNICEF Ranchi identified the need for significant enhancements to the SahiyaSangi Portal — the primary digital platform supporting Jharkhand’s community health worker (Sahiya/ASHA) programme. Two major new requirements emerged that demanded sophisticated system enhancements: Sahiya Assessment Digitization: Home Based Care for…
The Challenge UNICEF India’s IEC eWarehouse (www.unicefiec.org), initiated in 2006, served as the organization’s strategic platform for storage, sharing, and dissemination of IEC (Information, Education, Communication) materials. After years of operation, several needs had emerged: Velocity’s Solution Scope of Work Velocity provided comprehensive maintenance, digitization, document request management, and audio-video storage services for UNICEF India’s…
The Challenge UNICEF India is committed to engaging children and youth as key actors in their own development and aims to reinforce real-time information, two-way communication, and citizen engagement initiatives using mobile technology. To support this mission, UNICEF India had deployed RapidPro (rapidpro.io) in support of selected flagship initiatives, including U-Report, Real Time Monitoring (RTM)…
The Challenge India achieved significant progress under the Swachh Bharat Mission Phase 1 (2014-2019) in increasing access to toilet facilities. However, safe management of faecal sludge generated in toilets remained a critical issue, especially given that only 40% of urban India is connected to sewer networks, with approximately 60% of toilets relying on on-site sanitation…
The Challenge India had made considerable gains in ensuring children’s access to education through the government’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Samagra Shiksha programme, and the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act. However, an estimated 6 million children were still out of school as of 2014, with 75% concentrated in six states: Uttar…
The Challenge UNICEF India had been using a Performance Rating and Review System built on a 3-point rating scale. Following updates to UNICEF’s global HR policies and best practices in performance management, the organization needed to upgrade the system to a more granular 5-point rating scale. The key challenges included: Velocity’s Solution Scope of Work…
The Challenge Bihar has one of the highest populations of out-of-school children in India, with significant numbers concentrated in rural and hard-to-reach habitations. The existing paper-based tracking mechanisms were ineffective at scale, making it nearly impossible to: The Government of Bihar and UNICEF needed a robust, scalable digital platform that could function in low-connectivity environments…
The Challenge Conducting a competency assessment for 120,000 teachers across a geographically diverse state like Jharkhand presented formidable challenges: Velocity’s Solution Scope of Work Velocity Software Solutions designed, developed, and deployed an end-to-end Digital Test Administration Platform comprising: Key Features & Deliverables Test Delivery Platform: – Mobile-optimized Interface: Purpose-built for smartphone screens, with touch-friendly navigation,…
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