Across many communities in Uganda, Village Health Teams (VHTs) serve as the first point of contact for various health-related issues. Working primarily in a voluntary capacity, VHTs are ordinary community members who receive basic health care training to provide home visits and health management services.

Working in close collaboration with the Uganda Ministry of Health, UNCDF has supported partners, BRAC and Medic, to configure and deploy a digital system that promotes community-level health service demand creation, integrated health care coordination, and performance management.

The project is part of the UNCDF strategy ‘Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era’ that aims to empower millions of people in underserved communities to use digital services on a daily basis to improve their wellbeing.

This publication compiles learnings from one of the projects under this strategy that is leveraging innovation and technology to facilitate VHTs in their routine essential care, education, data collection and reporting in Uganda.