Connect delivers high-impact interventions in the places where the need is strongest. Through a marketplace of local, government-aligned organizations, every service is independently verified the moment it's done.
For decades, funders have paid for planned activity and hoped it added up. Connect changes the model to pay for work delivered, not work promised.
Learn more about how Connect works, the programs running on the platform today, and how frontline organizations join the network.
A two-sided marketplace where funders pick the intervention, country, and amount. Connect delivers through a network of local frontline organizations with verification on every visit and payments tracked the moment work is confirmed.
See how it works → ProgramsFrom Kangaroo Care to Child Health Campaigns to Wasting Treatment, explore the high-impact interventions running on Connect today.
See the programs → Frontline OrganizationsLocal, government-aligned organizations deliver every Connect program, running supervision, recruiting, and managing Frontline Workers. They are eligible for performance-based revenue growth as their service delivery is validated. Frontline Workers get paid directly when their work is confirmed.
Join the network →Whether you're funding a new campaign, designing a program, or running services on the ground, let's see if Connect fits.
Talk to usConnect is a two-sided service delivery marketplace. Funders pick a programmatic intervention, the geography, and the amount. Connect enrolls Frontline Workers to deliver and be paid for verified services, rapidly and cost-effectively. Funders then see their results.
Funders pick what to fund and where. We find the best way to deliver it.
Connect leverages a fast growing network of Frontline Organizations and vets them for subsequent contracts.
Qualified Frontline Organizations go from signed contract to workers delivering services in the field in days, not months.
Frontline Organizations are only paid for services that have been digitally verified through GPS, photos, and other mechanisms.
Funders only pay for verified services, and can decide to renew or select a new program area.
Once recruited for a job in a specific country, qualified frontline organizations move their workers through four clear steps: Learn the content, Deliver each service, get every visit Verified, and track Pay for every service approved.
Frontline Workers move through comprehensive digital training. They must pass a certification test before they're cleared to deliver services in the field.
Locally Led Organizations know their communities best. Connect provides the app, the verification, and the payment system, while organizations bring the relationships, supervisors, and trust.
Every visit runs through independent checks, each using a different signal, so faking a record becomes harder than just doing the work.
Payments are tracked the moment a visit is verified. Funders see cost per outcome rather than cost per worker trained.
Stories from Frontline Workers and partner organizations delivering verified services across the Connect network.
KMC can reduce neonatal mortality by up to 40% — yet coverage remains below 5% for eligible infants. Connect closes that gap with app-guided home visits, verified outcomes, and fair pay for Frontline Workers.
Read on Dimagi.com →See where Connect is live, read partner stories, download the app for paid opportunities, or sign up your organization to start delivering.
Join the Connect network →Connect is as much a learning system as a delivery one. This is where we share what we're learning along the way, what's working, what isn't, and how the model keeps shifting in response. Follow along on our learning journey.
In adversarial testing we paid FLWs to generate fake data with financial rewards for those who did best. A model trained on three data fields hit AUC 0.91, detecting 100% of fake FLWs while only flagging 2.5% of real FLWs as suspicious.
Without a grid, Frontline Workers cherry-picked easy houses. With a grid forcing them to go door-to-door, the hardest-to-reach children stopped being the ones who got missed.
That figure is Connect's all-in cost per visit, including commodities, LLO payments, setup, and product cost. The biggest driver of the drop was setup costs falling from ~$0.40 to ~$0.10 per visit as we moved past early-stage inefficiencies. We report cost-per-verified-outcome rather than cost-per-worker-trained because it's the number that actually matters.
Past reputation, team size, references, none of it told us if a partner organization would actually deliver. So we contracted small first. Of 37 partners, 24 ran trial runs. 10 underperformed. 3 were selected to scale based on their performance.
Locally Led Organizations independently mobilized imams, pastors, village elders, and community-recommended Frontline Workers. The platform didn't teach this, they already knew.
Remote coordination worked across Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania. It didn't hold in the Central African Republic. Staffing turnover and connectivity issues exited both contracted partners.
If missing the window cost a worker money, we'd see suspiciously perfect compliance instead. So we treat it as a guardrail, not a payment criterion — we coach and integrate hospital discharge notifications to close the gap.
The headline 50% number understates the gap. The mean is 6.05 days. One delivery opportunity doesn't collect hospital discharge dates at all, so 100% of those records are blank on this metric — which means the real-world bottleneck is data plumbing, not worker effort.
The Ministry is participating in working groups, quarterly reviews, and site visits, and contributing data to Uganda's five-year national neonatal plan. The next step: government co-funding at $10-20 per case.
That covers partner engagement, the Kangaroo wraps, scales, thermometers, pulse oximeters, training, payment per verified case, and supervision. We picked it for our first individual-giving experiment because $36 is the smallest unit at which one donor can fund a complete intervention with verified delivery.
Workers who passed our digital test still struggled with nuanced in-home counseling. No single layer of training was sufficient. This improved with 78% of workers scoring above 80% during their first observed visits. Average performance increased from 85% to 91% in the second observed visit.
A 50-caregiver baseline showed near-universal endorsement of responsive caregiving — attitudes weren't the gap. Knowledge and observed teaching practice were, and that's where we saw movement. We doubled the visit cadence in the next round.
Autonomy encouragement requires consistent behavior change across many interactions — not a single coaching session. It's the sub-domain least moved by the current visit structure. We aim to expand from 3 to 8-10 visits per child specifically to give this target more runway. We don't know yet if it will be enough.
Every entry above is a claim we have decided is honest, scoped, and worth putting on the public record. The cut is editorial. We keep what carries a number with a benchmark, what was published in a funder report or independent evaluation, and what comes with an open question we will name. We exclude headline scale numbers without context, marketing-friendly framings without source, and anything that hasn't survived a depth page yet.
Tier 1 entries are published in a funder report, an independent evaluation, or a public partner document. Tier 2 entries are documented internally and cleared for public reference but haven't appeared in a third-party document yet.
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Let's connectEach program follows the same four-step cycle: Learn, Verify, Deliver, Pay. Programs range from field-validated with published case studies to under development on the platform based on funder commitments.
CAR · DRC · Kenya · Liberia · Nigeria · Sierra Leone · Tanzania · Uganda · Zambia
Door-to-door vitamin A, deworming, oral rehydration salts, malnutrition screening, immunization promotion for children under five.
India · Kenya · Nigeria · Uganda Home visits for small and vulnerable newborns after they leave the hospital. Closes the follow-up gap with 4 to 5 visits in the first 60 days of life.
$36Per newborn50KUganda 2-year target5k+Cases tracked
Malawi · Nigeria
Breastfeeding promotion (6 visits, antenatal through complementary feeding) plus maternal mental health coaching via WHO's Problem Management Plus protocol.
Kenya · Nigeria
Door-to-door near-vision screening and distribution of reading glasses. Scalable, self-paced, digital training to efficitly upskill Frontline Workers.
Malawi · Mozambique · Nigeria
Three parenting visits over three weeks to coach core concepts of responsive caregiving and positive parenting within the nurturing care framework.
Nigeria · Launching 2026
Dispensers installed at communal water points, paired with door-to-door household education on safe water treatment. Chlorination reduces childhood diarrhea by ~40%.
Uganda · Ethiopia
Locally Led Organizations deploy Frontline Workers to facilitate evidence-based group therapy for depression.
Nigeria · Launching 2026
Frontline Workers answer stakeholder questions via AI chatbot. 5,000 interviews targeted across 1,500+ workers.
Nigeria · Piloting 2025
Frontline Workers digitally trained to deliver home-based RUTF treatment for children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Nurse-led LLO teams, verified visit-by-visit. Targeting $30/case. 18-month pilot in northern Nigeria.
Nigeria · Sokoto, Gombe, Borno
GPS-navigated household surveys using satellite building footprints as a sampling frame. Frontline Workers as enumerators — no prior survey experience required. Piloted across 996 households in 3 states.
Connect works best when the intervention is proven, verifiable, and appropriate for door-to-door or structured visit delivery. Let's talk through your vision.
Let's chatDoor-to-door delivery of high-impact child health services, Vitamin A, deworming, oral rehydration salts, malnutrition screening, and immunization promotion, to children under five. Verified visit by visit, paid only for what's confirmed.
A Child Health Campaign is a coordinated push where Frontline Workers move household-to-household across a defined area, delivering a bundle of high-impact services to every child under five they reach. Every service is logged, photographed, and independently verified before payment.
Vitamin A is one of the cheapest ways to save a child's life: roughly $1 per capsule, with an estimated 4-12% reduction in under-five mortality. The hard part isn't the capsule — it's reaching the children. That's what Connect campaigns are built to do.
Source: GiveWell ↗Albendazole or Mebendazole for children with soil-transmitted helminth exposure. Routine deworming improves nutritional status, school attendance, and growth in high-prevalence areas.
Distribution and caregiver coaching on ORS, the highest-impact, lowest-cost diarrhea response in low-resource settings.
Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) measurement and visual assessment for wasting. Children with red or yellow readings are referred into the local treatment pathway. Data flows back to inform the next campaign cycle.
Caregiver counseling on routine immunization, with referral to the nearest catch-up site. Several partners independently mobilized faith and community leaders to drive coverage.
Frontline Workers from Kikapu Gardens, a Locally Led Organization in Kenya, walk through their day delivering Child Health Campaign services with Connect. Trained workers visit households door-to-door, providing vitamin A, deworming, and malnutrition screening to children under five.
Hear from the organization's staff, the workers themselves, and the families whose children received care.
Child Health Campaign is the program where most of Connect's methodology was first validated. A few of the published findings:
That figure is Connect's all-in cost per visit, including commodities, LLO payments, setup, and product cost. The biggest driver of the drop was setup costs falling from ~$0.40 to ~$0.10 per visit as we moved past early-stage inefficiencies. We report cost-per-verified-outcome rather than cost-per-worker-trained because it's the number that actually matters.
Past reputation, team size, references, none of it told us if a partner organization would actually deliver. So we contracted small first. Of 37 partners, 24 ran trial runs. 10 underperformed. 3 were selected to scale based on their performance.
Locally Led Organizations independently mobilized imams, pastors, village elders, and community-recommended Frontline Workers. The platform didn't teach this, they already knew.
Let's build one together, starting with your desired geography and budget. We'll come back with a delivery plan, a cost-per-verified-visit estimate, and a list of frontline organizations to run with.
Let's Design Your Program80% of neonatal deaths occur after discharge from facilities — in homes, without follow-up. Connect KMC closes that gap with structured home visits for small and vulnerable newborns in the first 60 days of life. Weight, temperature, oxygen saturation, and breastfeeding assessed every visit. Verified, and paid only when confirmed.
Each home visit is a structured clinical encounter. Frontline Workers arrive with a scale, thermometer, pulse oximeter, and measuring tape. They assess weight, axillary temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, head circumference, and feeding. Danger signs trigger an automated referral before the worker leaves.
Calibrated scale used at every visit. Weight-for-age tracking identifies faltering growth before it becomes acute malnutrition. Workers log the reading directly into the app and flag any drop from the prior visit.
Axillary temperature measured at every visit. Hypothermia is the leading preventable danger sign in small and vulnerable newborns. Any reading outside the normal range triggers an immediate referral pathway in the app.
Pulse oximeter reading captures respiratory status at each visit. Low saturation is an early indicator of distress before visible symptoms appear. The reading is logged alongside respiratory rate and breathing observation.
Workers coach caregivers on skin-to-skin positioning using Kangaroo wraps, observe a breastfeed, and support exclusive breastfeeding. Feeding difficulty is one of the earliest signals of clinical deterioration in small newborns. Mothers also receive emotional support — many face stigma and isolation after a high-risk birth.
Structured checklist covering convulsions, jaundice, difficulty breathing, poor feeding, hypothermia, and abnormal skin color — with automatic referral generation when any is flagged. Workers do not leave until a referral plan is confirmed with the family. Facility linkages are pre-established.
When Nantume Madrine's premature baby was discharged from a hospital in Mukono District, Uganda, she had almost no support. A NAWEC Frontline Worker enrolled her in Connect KMC within days. The baby thrived.
NAWEC trained 10 community health workers and reached 64 mother-baby pairs in Mukono in the first weeks of launch. Their post reads: "This is more than data — it is life, dignity, and second chances."
Two Ugandan partner organizations have now committed to delivering Connect KMC to an additional 5,000 Severely Vulnerable Newborns over the next year, expanding from Central Uganda into Eastern Uganda — with Uganda's Ministry of Health signing an MoU targeting 50,000 Severely Vulnerable Newborns nationally over two years.
KMC is the program where Connect first applied outcome-based payment to newborn health. A few of the published findings:
If missing the window cost a worker money, we'd see suspiciously perfect compliance instead. So we treat it as a guardrail, not a payment criterion — we coach and integrate hospital discharge notifications to close the gap.
The headline 50% number understates the gap. The mean is 6.05 days. One delivery opportunity doesn't collect hospital discharge dates at all, so 100% of those records are blank on this metric — which means the real-world bottleneck is data plumbing, not worker effort.
That covers partner engagement, the Kangaroo wraps, scales, thermometers, pulse oximeters, training, payment per verified case, and supervision. We picked it for our first individual-giving experiment because $36 is the smallest unit at which one donor can fund a complete intervention with verified delivery.
$36 covers the full Connect KMC cycle for one small and vulnerable newborn — Kangaroo wraps, scales, thermometers, pulse oximeters, FLW training, payment for visits, and supervision. Every dollar is tied to a verified outcome. Individual donors, foundations, and program funders all welcome.
Home visits supporting responsive caregiving and early child development. Multiple structured visits building caregiver knowledge, observable teaching behavior, and child autonomy. Validated with 400 Frontline Workers across three countries.
Each visit is a structured caregiver coaching session. Frontline Workers guide parents through responsive interaction, model talk-and-play activities, discuss developmental milestones, and practice teaching behaviors with the caregiver. The intervention targets knowledge and observable behavior.
Structured guidance on noticing and responding warmly to a child's cues. Workers use scenario-based coaching to build the habit of responsiveness across feeding, play, and daily routines — not just during the visit itself.
Language-rich interaction and age-appropriate play activities for cognitive and language development. Workers model activities with available household materials — no kit required — and coach caregivers to continue between visits.
Knowledge building on what children are developmentally capable of at each age — and what caregiver behavior supports progression. Caregiver knowledge of rapid development timing improved 33% in the Malawi pilot.
Observed teaching behavior improved 21% in the Malawi pilot. Workers do not just explain — they watch caregivers practice, give feedback, and code the quality of what they see using a structured visit checklist.
Supporting children's exploration and independent problem-solving. This is the hardest sub-domain because it requires pattern-based behavior change across multiple interactions, not a single coaching session.
An in-app AI coach built on Dimagi's Open Chat Studio platform reinforces learning between visits. The coach runs daily — presenting practice scenarios, identifying knowledge gaps, and drilling motivational interviewing techniques like open-ended questions and reflective listening. At the end of each day it asks about how visits went and provides tailored feedback grounded in real experiences.
ECD is the program that most challenged our assumptions about what intervention design needs to target. A few of the published findings:
A 50-caregiver baseline showed near-universal endorsement of responsive caregiving — attitudes weren't the gap. Knowledge and observed teaching practice were, and that's where we saw movement. We doubled the visit cadence in the next round.
Workers who passed our digital test still struggled with nuanced in-home counseling. No single layer of training was sufficient. This improved with 78% of workers scoring above 80% during their first observed visits. Average performance increased from 85% to 91% in the second observed visit.
Autonomy encouragement requires consistent behavior change across many interactions — not a single coaching session. It's the sub-domain least moved by the current visit structure. We aim to expand from 3 to 8-10 visits per child specifically to give this target more runway. We don't know yet if it will be enough.
Let's build a program together — starting with your target geography, age group, and budget. We'll come back with a delivery plan, a cost-per-child estimate, and a partner list.
Let's Design Your ProgramDoor-to-door near-vision screening and presbyopia correction across northeast Nigeria.
A Reading Glasses visit is a two-part encounter: near-vision screening first, then distribution. Frontline Workers screen adults aged 35 and older with a paper E-chart, identify the appropriate correction strength from five dioptre options, dispense the pair, and photograph the completed distribution for independent audit.
Paper E-chart test administered door-to-door to identify presbyopia in adults aged 35 and older. Standardized distance and lighting conditions are part of the certification protocol. Pre-training test averaged 36/100; post-training averaged 93.5/100.
Five correction strengths available: +1.0, +1.5, +2.0, +2.5, and +3.0 dioptres. Workers test each beneficiary with the E-chart at the appropriate reading distance to identify the correct strength before dispensing.
Off-the-shelf reading glasses in the matched dioptre strength, handed directly to the beneficiary. Vision correction has been shown to increase work productivity up to 22% and income up to 33% for adults in visually-intensive occupations.
Every completed distribution is photographed live in the app. Photos are compared against specified criteria to ensure appropriate distribution.
Four self-paced digital modules, an 80%-threshold in-app test, then a two-day in-person practical evaluation.
GlobCom — endorsed by the Siaya County Ministry of Health — deployed Community Health Promoters (CHPs) across their existing catchment areas in November–December 2024. 25 of 32 enrolled CHPs completed self-paced digital training and in-person certification before delivering services. A daily cap of 5 distributions kept incentives aligned with CHPs' existing core health duties.
1,387 household visits. 1,239 verified distributions. The platform flagged 26 duplicate registrations and rejected 30 shortened visits before payment was processed. Workers were paid 17–32 days after service delivery. Two months post-distribution: 12 of 19 recipients confirmed they were using their glasses — for bible study, reading, and phone use.
Let's build a program together — starting with your target geography and scale. We'll come back with a delivery plan, a cost-per-pair estimate, and a list of organizations ready to run with.
Let's Design Your ProgramFrontline delivered coaching across two evidence-based interventions: breastfeeding promotion from antenatal through the first six months, and maternal mental health support using WHO's Problem Management Plus. Six structured home visits, verified through the Connect platform and paid per confirmed outcome.
The program delivers two evidence-based interventions through six structured home visits: breastfeeding promotion from the antenatal period through complementary feeding introduction, and maternal mental health coaching using Problem Management Plus (PM+). Both are delivered by trained Frontline Workers, verified through the Connect platform, and paid per confirmed visit.
Counseling before birth on the importance of exclusive breastfeeding, what to expect in the first days, and how to prepare for early latch. Frontline Workers address misconceptions and build household support before the baby arrives.
Workers observe a breastfeed, assess latch and positioning, and address the most common barriers to exclusive breastfeeding in the first weeks — pain, perceived low supply, and family pressure to supplement. Evidence suggests programs like this can increase exclusive breastfeeding rates by up to 48%.
Support to maintain exclusive breastfeeding through six months, followed by counseling on the safe introduction of complementary foods. Workers reinforce feeding cues, responsive feeding, and appropriate meal frequency and diversity.
WHO's Problem Management Plus (PM+) is a 5-session brief psychological intervention — transdiagnostic, meaning no formal diagnosis is required. It targets depression, anxiety, and stress using strategies including problem management, behavioral activation, social support strengthening, and psychoeducation. Designed specifically for delivery by trained non-professional community health volunteers, it has been validated in Randomized Controlled Trials including with women affected by gender-based violence in Kenya.
Structured check-ins on maternal wellbeing, practical problem-solving techniques, and stress management strategies — each session using motivational interviewing and relapse prevention to build lasting change. Workers are trained to identify postpartum depression symptoms and refer when clinical support is needed, with referral pathways pre-established before first delivery.
Between visits, Frontline Workers access an AI chatbot for content reinforcement, troubleshooting, and post-session debriefs using motivational interviewing. The system also identifies workers lacking content mastery and flags them for supervisor follow-up. A potential client-facing layer for direct breastfeeding guidance is in design.
GiveWell awarded $320,356 in November 2024 to design and test the Mother Baby Wellness program on Connect. A 15-month design-and-pilot phase is underway, targeting approximately 2,000 mother-baby pairs across Nigeria. Data and results will be published as the pilot completes.
See the Grant →Neonatal mortality is declining more slowly than post-neonatal mortality. The window immediately after birth — when most families have returned home but before postnatal clinic follow-up begins — is the single most under-supported period in the maternal and child health continuum.
The evidence for the two interventions is strong: structured breastfeeding promotion programs can increase exclusive breastfeeding rates by up to 48%. Problem Management Plus (PM+) is a WHO-endorsed brief psychological intervention shown to reduce depression and improve wellbeing in low-resource settings. Neither has been consistently delivered at scale through verified, performance-paid Frontline Workers. That is the gap MBW is designed to close.
We're actively designing the Mother Baby Wellness program. If you're interested in co-designing, funding, or piloting, reach out. We'd like to build it with you.
Get in TouchChlorine dispensers installed at communal water collection points, paired with door-to-door household education on safe water treatment. Diarrhea kills more children under five than malaria. Chlorination is one of the highest-evidence, lowest-cost interventions to stop it. Launching in Nigeria 2026, funded by a $1M GiveWell grant.
A chlorine dispenser program combines physical infrastructure at the point of water collection with frontline-delivered household education. Workers install and maintain dispensers, train communities on correct use, conduct door-to-door counseling on safe water storage, and monitor adoption and usage. Every visit is logged and verified through the Connect platform.
Chlorine dispensers are mounted directly at communal water points — boreholes, hand pumps, and collection taps — so households can self-dispense chlorine into their containers as they collect water. Installation is coordinated with local health authorities and water point operators.
Door-to-door visits to every household in the program area. Frontline Workers demonstrate correct chlorine dosing, explain how chlorinated water prevents diarrhea, and address common household-level barriers to adoption — including taste concerns, confusion about dosage, and beliefs about water safety.
Guidance on storing treated water safely at home — covered containers, dedicated water vessels, hand-washing at water collection — to prevent recontamination after chlorination. Chlorinated water remains safe for up to 72 hours when stored correctly.
Engaging community leaders, water point operators, and faith networks to drive adoption. Local organizations with existing community relationships recruit the Frontline Workers who deliver household education — the same locally led model used across every Connect program.
Regular checks on dispenser stock levels and usage rates. Empty dispensers are refilled; broken units are reported for repair. Monitoring data is captured in the Connect app, giving program managers real-time visibility on coverage and adoption across the deployment area.
GiveWell awarded a $1M grant in January 2026 to launch chlorine dispenser installation and household education across Nigeria. The program is part of GiveWell's $19.7M Safe Water portfolio — 18 grants to 12+ organizations delivering safe water across West and East Africa. Data and findings will be published as the program launches.
See the GiveWell Blog →Chlorination is one of the most robustly evidenced low-cost water interventions in global health. Point-of-collection dispensers — liquid chlorine mounted directly at hand pumps and communal water points — consistently outperform household-level filters and sachets on adoption, because the behavior change is smaller: chlorinate at the tap, not at home.
Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program, the model Dimagi's program is informed by, has reached over 5 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi. GiveWell's Safe Water portfolio — which now includes Dimagi — projects 2,000+ deaths averted across 18 active grants, mostly in children under five. The Connect platform adds verified household education delivery on top of the physical dispenser infrastructure.
Technical assistance for Connect's program is provided by Evidence Action. Baseline and endline surveys are conducted by independent external firms. Chlorine has limited effectiveness against Cryptosporidium — the program targets bacterial and viral pathogens, which account for the majority of diarrheal disease burden in the target geographies.
We're launching the Chlorine Dispenser program in Nigeria in 2026. If you're interested in co-funding, designing, or expanding to additional geographies, reach out.
Get in TouchDepression affects over 280 million people globally — and fewer than 25% in low- and middle-income countries ever receive care. Connect's Mental Health program deploys Locally Led Organizations to facilitate structured group therapy using WHO's evidence-based IPT-G (Interpersonal Group Therapy) and gPM+ (Group Problem Management Plus) protocols. Trained Frontline Worker facilitators run weekly sessions with groups of 6–8 participants. Every session is app-guided, digitally verified, and paid only when confirmed.
Connect applies its Learn-Deliver-Verify-Pay model to group therapy. Locally Led Organizations recruit and manage facilitators, who receive digital training and then run structured weekly group sessions — tracked session by session, paid per verified completion.
Frontline Worker facilitators complete digital training on their assigned protocol — IPT-G or gPM+. The IPT-G curriculum runs approximately 35 hours; facilitators must pass in-app certification before being assigned groups. Training covers how to run sessions, track participant wellbeing using validated tools like the PHQ-9, and manage safety referrals.
Facilitators run structured weekly sessions with groups of 6-8 participants. IPT-G runs 8 sessions per intervention; gPM+ runs 5 weekly sessions. The Connect app guides the facilitator through each session — providing step-by-step prompts, counselling scripts, and structured activities. Each facilitator manages up to 4 concurrent groups. Locally Led Organizations assign cases, manage rosters, and supervise facilitators.
Dimagi runs verification algorithms on each submitted session: GPS-based location checks, session duration (flagging sessions that are too short), and real-time data entry requirements. Claims that fail verification are rejected — and the partner organization is told why.
Facilitators are paid per confirmed, verified session — not per training completed or group enrolled. Locally Led Organizations receive payment after Dimagi's verification algorithms clear each session's data. Scores are tracked at midline and endline to monitor participant outcomes alongside delivery metrics.
Three self-funded validation pilots achieved $50 per person treated. Connect is now working with existing LLO partners to drive that cost below $25 — unlocking 40,000 people treated for every $1M of funding.
Three Locally Led Organizations have piloted group therapy and validated the model. Each brings local trust, clinical backing, and a pathway to government integration.
Introduced IPT-G in 2021, treating depression and anxiety in 655 women and girls to date. Connect's IPT-G app supported the initial pilot of 50 clients. Nama, in collaboration with Uganda's Ministry of Health, is scaling to three districts — targeting 1,200 women and girls.
Worked with locally hired facilitators to deliver school-based IPT-G sessions for over 50 children under the age of 18. Backed by Uganda's Ministry of Education — demonstrating the model's adaptability beyond adult clinical populations.
Building on the USAID-funded SPIR II program in Tigray — where the target population exceeds 80,000 — WVE deployed 120 Frontline Workers across a 5-week gPM+ pilot, running 3–4 groups each and supporting over 2,000 individuals. Backed by Ethiopia's Ministry of Health.
If you're interested in funding sessions, co-designing the program, or bringing it to a new context, reach out.
Get in TouchTurns Frontline Workers into a rapid research network. Stakeholders submit questions, an AI chatbot interviews workers via in-app messaging, and Dimagi delivers transcripts, translations, and AI-generated summaries within two weeks. Workers opt in and are paid per quality interview. Piloting in Nigeria 2026.
Each interview round takes approximately two weeks, end to end, from question development to completed analysis. Stakeholders get transcripts, English translations where needed, and AI-generated summaries. Workers are paid per quality response — and only the best continue to be offered interviews.
A stakeholder provides a set of questions to Dimagi. Questions are programmed into the AI chatbot — along with probing follow-ups.
Workers opt in through Connect's WhatsApp-like in-app messaging. The AI chatbot — built on Dimagi's Open Chat Studio — conducts the interview, probes for clarity, and follows up on incomplete answers. Operates in Hausa and other low-resource languages.
Responses are rated by AI and human labeling for clarity and completeness. Workers who deliver higher-quality responses continue to be offered paid interviews.
Dimagi delivers full interview transcripts, English translations where needed, and AI-generated summaries to the stakeholder — within two weeks of question submission. Faster and cheaper than in-person qualitative research at comparable scale.
GiveWell awarded grant to develop and pilot Connect Interview over 6 months in Nigeria. The program will run 20 interview rounds, targeting 5,000 quality interviews from at least 1,500 Frontline Workers — averaging 250 participating workers per round.
Frontline Workers are embedded in the communities where development programs operate. They see what program data misses: what caregivers actually believe, what barriers look like at the household level, what's changing and what isn't. Getting that signal has historically required expensive in-person qualitative research — slow, hard to repeat, and difficult to scale.
Connect Interview makes that signal accessible on demand. Stakeholders can query a standing network of verified Frontline Workers in two weeks, in low-resource languages, at a fraction of the cost of traditional qualitative fieldwork. And because workers are paid for quality — not just participation — the answers are worth something.
Connect Interview is piloting in Nigeria in 2026. If you're interested in running an interview round or co-designing the program, reach out.
Get in TouchFrontline Workers digitally trained to deliver home-based treatment for children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) using Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). Each visit guided by the Connect app — decision support, RUTF dosing, counselling prompts, danger-sign checks — and verified with GPS, timestamps, and photos. Targeting $30 per case. Piloting in northern Nigeria, funded by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation.
Connect builds on WHO's updated 2023 guidelines, which recognize that community health workers can deliver high-quality SAM treatment when properly trained and supervised. Every step is digitally guided, verified, and paid only when completed correctly.
Frontline Workers complete self-paced, offline digital training on WHO SAM guidelines before delivering any care — covering MUAC screening, SAM diagnosis, RUTF dosing, counselling, and danger-sign recognition. Workers must pass in-app certification before they are assigned cases.
Workers use mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) to screen children aged 6–59 months in the community. Cases of uncomplicated SAM are identified and assigned to a Frontline Worker by a supervising nurse. Children with danger signs or complicated SAM are referred to a health facility.
At each home visit, the Connect app guides the worker through the full protocol: RUTF dosing calculation, counselling on feeding and hygiene, weight recording, and danger-sign checks. Decision support is built in — workers are prompted when dosing adjustments or referrals are needed.
Locally Led Organizations (LLOs) employ trained nurses who assign cases, supervise Frontline Workers, manage RUTF supply chains, and coordinate referrals. LLOs receive start-up funding and pay-per-verified-service contracts — aligning incentives with quality delivery and minimising leakage.
Every visit is verified with GPS, timestamps, and photos before triggering payment. Workers are paid only for confirmed, quality visits. The platform collects continuous data on service delivery, child outcomes, and costs, enabling rigorous monitoring and rapid course correction.
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is funding an 18-month pilot to develop and validate a scalable, low-cost model for community-based SAM treatment in northern Nigeria — with a target cost of $30 per case, excluding RUTF.
Severe Acute Malnutrition affects tens of millions of children globally and is a leading cause of child mortality — yet most treatment requires repeated trips to a health facility, which many families cannot manage. WHO's updated 2023 guidelines recognize that community health workers can correctly screen, diagnose, and treat uncomplicated SAM when given adequate training, supervision, and motivation.
Connect brings together digital certification, guided delivery, nurse-led oversight, and pay-per-verified-visit to make that possible at scale. The 18-month CIFF-funded pilot in northern Nigeria will test whether this model can deliver high-quality care at $30 per case — and demonstrate a replicable blueprint for expanding SAM treatment beyond health facilities.
If you're interested in running a therapeutic food program or co-funding the model, reach out.
Get in TouchA GPS-navigated household survey method that uses satellite building footprints as a sampling frame — no household list required. Developed by IDinsight, piloted by Connect across 996 households in three Nigerian states with Frontline Workers as enumerators. Operationally feasible, statistically rigorous, and replicable across Connect programs.
Rooftop Sampling uses Google Open Buildings (1.8 billion structures) or Microsoft Building Footprints as a sampling frame — replacing the household lists that traditional surveys require. Enumerators navigate directly to GPS coordinates on their phone, no paper maps needed.
Building footprints are downloaded from Google Open Buildings or Microsoft Building Footprints for the target geography. These satellite-derived datasets cover over 1.8 billion structures globally and require no in-country household list or census frame.
Buildings are filtered by confidence score and minimum roof size to eliminate small structures unlikely to be residential. The result is a clean sampling frame of plausible households — without a single field visit.
A random or systematic sample is drawn from the filtered frame. In the Nigeria pilot, each enumerator received 40 GPS points organized into 5 clusters of 8 buildings — clustered to minimize travel time while maintaining geographic spread.
Enumerators navigate to sampled GPS points using their phone. In the Nigeria pilot, 80% arrived within 15m of the target building, and 98% of pins led to inhabited homes.
At the doorstep, enumerators conduct the household survey. In the pilot, Frontline Workers with no prior survey experience served as enumerators — receiving GPS navigation training and supervision. The survey captured vaccination coverage, child health status, and other program indicators.
The pilot covered 5 wards across Sokoto, Gombe, and Borno states — approximately 200 households per ward, 1,846 children under five enumerated. Frontline Workers handled all fieldwork as enumerators with no prior survey experience.
Rooftop Sampling provides a satellite-derived, GPS-navigated alternative to traditional household surveys — no household list required, Frontline Workers as enumerators. Reach out to explore a coverage validation study.
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