The Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme (DHIAP) supports scalable digital solutions using open standards and approaches to creating global goods. These solutions must focus on building and supporting pandemic preparedness capabilities, speeding up demand-driven vaccine distribution and restoring communities and health systems. 

The Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme has two chapters: Open Challenge - focused on supporting innovators deploying solutions in any low- and middle-income country, and Local Challenges - focused on supporting innovators implementing their solutions in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo. Selected teams received financial, technical and methodological support from the WFP Innovation Accelerator and other partners through the 12-month WFP sprint programme. 

Launched in 2021, the Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme is powered by the WFP Innovation Accelerator and BMZ digilab, the innovation lab for digital solutions. It was initiated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in collaboration with GIZ, the German Development Bank KfW, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What we offer

The WFP Innovation Accelerator SDGx team provides a platform for innovation to achieve the SDGs. Through its end-to-end acceleration programmes, it offers best-in-class, fit-for-purpose innovation support to accelerate our collective impact. In 2023, 28 SDGx portfolio innovations from nine programmes reached more than 5.6 million people.

For the Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme sprint, SDGx provided the following support alongside its partners:

         
   
Coaching & mentorship
  
Funding
  
SDGx community & partnership opporutnitites

Selected ventures participated in a WFP sprint programme – a twelve-month acceleration programme with access to up to US$250,000 in equity-free funding, coaching, and mentorship support from a global network of relevant partners in the public health space. 

  

Each venture received access to up to US$250,000 in equity-free funding for sprint implementation. 

  

Network connections and partnering opportunities, both within and outside of the DHIAP cohort were facilitated upon request. Ventures are now part of the SDGx community of global change makers for life-long learning, collaboration and networking opportunities. 
Selected sprints for the Digital Health Innovation Accelerator Programme

Sprints are structured support programmes in which selected innovators are guided toward implementing their solutions and testing their hypotheses. The WFP Innovation Accelerator provides tailored support to innovations to roll out or scale their activities and impact. After a competitive selection process, the following eight ventures were selected for the sprint programme.

OpenFN Lightning
Open Challenge | OpenFn Lightning is an open-source, modular platform that allows non-technical users to easily build, run, and audit data integration workflows and automations, with a particular focus on health system users. The system reduces the time and cost required to set up secure, interoperable health systems and lower the technical barrier for users to perform these integrations.
MedTrack
Open Challenge | MedTrack is a cloud-based universal Electronic Health Record (EHR) that enables health providers to access patient medical history in real-time through an easy-to-use web application without additional hardware or software installation. By linking health records with national digital identity numbers, MedTrack standardizes health data that can be securely accessed across facilities, ensuring continuity of care and reducing duplication.
Simprints Digital ID
Open Challenge | Simprints has developed a safe and inclusive biometric digital ID to eliminate duplicate records, decrease artificial inflation and verify vaccine delivery. The solution enables seamless integration with national health system records and other applications to look up patient records through biometrics. As an open-sourced technology, Simprinss has created the world’s first open, ethical, and inclusive digital ID to strengthen immunization campaigns globally.
Flowminder - Data for Good
Local Challenge | Flowminder leverages anonymized and aggregated data from Mobile Network Operators to account for population mobility in key metrics. In the sprint project, they are focusing on using these novel data sources to increase the accuracy of health metrics in Ghana to improve resourcing and disease surveillance. However, the methodology has the capacity to be applied to many further use cases in the future.
Kajou - K-health
Local Challenge | The K-health platform, supported by Kajou's technology, aims to provide training to community health workers in rural areas of Cote d'Ivoire through their phones. Localized training content will be produced with local stakeholders and made available on MicroSD cards for offline use on smartphones through the Kajou App.
LoMIS by eHealthAfrica
Local Challenge | Logistic Management Information Systems (LoMIS) is a suite of offline-capable mobile and web applications “LoMIS Stock” and “LoMIS Deliver,” which address challenges with the supply or distribution of health commodities to last-mile health facilities. The solution enables stakeholders to get near real-time visibility of stock levels at health facilities and tracking of health commodities in transit for effective planning and decision-making.
Erith
Local Challenge | Erith protects and upskills rural health workers through online training and personal protective equipment (PPE). Ertih provides online training for health workers in English, French and local dialects on a range of workplace practices, including personal protection against disease. ERITH also has an online shop offering a range of affordable protective equipment for frontline health workers.
iHRIS by IntraHealth
Local Challenge | iHRIS is a free, open-source system that provides oversight of the health workforce, including those in training, in-service, or leaving service, and enables better workforce management. It uses an open API based on the popular FHIR specification for custom integrations as needed and can be integrated into the Togo Health Management Information Systems (a version of DHIS2).
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