Orodata Science, a foremost civic tech organisation combining data science, technology, and research to spearhead advocacy for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria, is set to launch the ‘CheckMYPHC’ platform to encourage sub-national participation in governance while strengthening health institutions.
The ‘CheckMYPHC’ platform was developed to empower government, journalists, citizens and all other key stakeholders with access to rich baseline data and resources necessary to understand the true status of primary health centres across the federation towards making more informed decisions in such a sensitive sector.
CheckMYPHC was developed under the African Data Hub (ADH) initiative and is a part of a larger project called the My PHC Project which has three facets: the FrontLine Data Collection Programme, the FrontLine Investigative Programme, and the digital platform called Check MyPHC.
On the platform, users can explore the status of primary health centres by state and local governments across Nigeria, download data, and request more.
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They can also search for specific primary health centres (PHC) in their communities, compare them with one in another community, and view key insights on the building structure, infrastructure, personnel, and more.
The platform also has a key feature that allows users to provide feedback based on their experiences using a PHC.
This is to enable users—community champions and community organisations to capture continuous and real-time situations of PHCs in their localities to guide better interventions towards revitalising dilapidated and abandoned PHCs across Nigeria.
Development and Operations Lead at Orodata Science and Civic Tech, Eromosele John, said in a statement that with the recent claim by the Nigerian government of disbursing over N12billion to NPHCDA Gateway through the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), non-state actors need to support stakeholders with essential baseline healthcare data necessary for effective service delivery through optimised resource allocation, tracking of spending, and strengthening the feedback loop between the government and citizens.
“This maiden version of the CheckMYPHC platform holds data from primary health centres from six states (Sokoto, Taraba, Benue, CrossRiver, Anambra, Osun) from the six geo-political zones (North Central, North East, North West, South West, South East and South South) in Nigeria unearthing insights and the actual state of over 345 PHCs in these hard to reach areas.
“Phase Two of the data collection anticipates reaching over 1000 PHC in 16 states as this will gain momentum immediately after this launch,” Orodata stated.
The hybrid launch will be held on July 30 at 10:00 am.
Orodata Science and Civic Tech combine data science, technology, design, and research to improve institutional reforms, foster media innovation, bolster health systems, and facilitate access to inclusive and rich data.
The Africa Data Hub (ADH) is a collective of data organisations operating across three African countries that work together to provide local journalists with verified accurate up-to-date data, tools, training, mentoring and support to tell the stories that matter with the data they need.
“We believe that access to quality data not only has the potential to challenge power and the status quo, but also to have a direct impact in addressing vulnerability, inequity and exclusion.
“This official launch is hybrid, and we invite the general public to register to attend virtually to mark this ground-breaking event,” the statement adds.