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Mobile phone climate change health warning systems in Northern Uganda; is a project scheme designed/developed in responds to this described problems/challenges “Uganda is ranked 159 out of 178 countries, 15th on vulnerability and 147th on readiness to combat climate changes effects,ND-GAIN index1 (2013),since 2007 extreme flooding, drought conditions; have resulted to outbreak of diseases like malaria, cholera, crops diseases among others; with one million people lost their lives, increased famine and poverty, with no mitigation or prevention efforts (GOU 2015)”.
The project aims to communicate and create awareness about health warning risks or potential disease outbreak to 4,000,000 population in 15 months, the project will focus on, 1) creating and connect 3000,000 mobile phones owners and 100 tele-centers to communication server for information dissemination in five months 2) forming one sectors consortium for weather health data analysisand dissemination in six months and 3) train and orient 80 weather Health informers and awareness raisers in information dissemination in three months.
The main activities of the project will be: awareness creation,consortium needs assessment,sectoral consortium formation, instituting weather health tracking system, mobile phone and server linkages and training weather health informers, this shall be achieved through: communication server using computerized ICT technology, digitalized communication technology device system, use of daily data surveillance monitoring technology gargets tracking analysis systems and, use of trained weather health informers and awareness raisers, using vigorous in-depth training, involving religious and cultural leaders to address cultural and religious rigidities.
monitored and measured through: partners and stakeholders, Data collected shall be analyzed using plausibility and triangulation concepts, compared with other reports and as such, Findings, Conclusions and Lessons Learnt was arrived and shared with the public,The project shall be managed by partners and sustained through: partners, resource person, communities, regular funding with startup cost of 60,000$.
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