THE CHALLENGE
The staff at ChildFund Uganda (CFU) lack a proper case management system needed to track children’s progress from the time they enter CFU’s programs to when they exit as young adults.
ChildFund Uganda works with over 29,000 children across Uganda to help create the safe environments children need to thrive. Their current pen and paper based approach to monitoring and evaluating children’s well-being has limited CFU’s ability to make time-sensitive, evidence-based decisions related to programming. CFU staff also lack a case management system that would enable them to track children’s progress throughout their programs.
THE INNOVATION
Venture 2 Impact engaged its community of skilled-volunteers and ran a two day hackathon to build and prototype a real-time, case-based data management system.
Over the course of the two day hackathon, 11 volunteers, from Salesforce, Microsoft and Telus, spent a collective total of 75 hours working on the new system. This included 2 designers to design the system, 1 product manager to lead the team, and 6 programmers to build the system. After development is finished, training on the system will be provided to the Childfund Uganda staff on the data collection tool and case management system.
THE IMPACT
The V2I volunteers came together to co-create ChildFund Uganda’s new tool. With the system built during the hackathon, CFU will be able to:
- Improve data collection, analyses and data-based decision-making
- Increase programming efficiency and responsivenes
- Further enhance the well-being of over 29,000 children in Uganda.
From our Partner
"The Venture 2 Impact team is an amazing team that stimulated our deeper reflection on a programming challenge and jointly developed an innovative solution to it. Venture 2 Impact and corporate volunteers supported ChildFund with a system that will enable us to track children participating in our program activities and enable fast decision making on how to better reach our targeted children and their families."
Charles LuwagaPrograms and Sponsorship Director ChildFund Uganda 
This innovation was built by employees from the following organizations
Volunteer Testimonial
NEXT STEPS
- V2I and CFU will launch a pilot later this summer to test the solution with a local partner, prior to scaling it to all ChildFund Uganda community offices, staff and children. The pilot will take place over a 3 month period, to ensure that we get feedback from the local staff and partners who work directly with children.
- After the 3 month period, we’ll launch a Hackathon 2.0 to incorporate feedback from the pilot to improve the collection tool and the case management system.
- Post Hackathon 2.0, the system will be scaled across all ChildFund Uganda community offices, staff, and children.
