The Dimagi Blog
Imagine you're a frontline worker preparing for a visit. With multiple clients to serve, staying organized is critical. Before heading out, you open your phone and instantly see notes from your last visit: a sick child who needed follow-up, a farmer whose fertilizer...
Ireland joins India and US hosting. Same CommCare, now with more data residency choices. Your data, your choice. Starting today, every new CommCare project can be hosted in one of three secure regions: European Union (Ireland), India (Mumbai), or US (Virginia), at...
I'm pleased to share that CommCare has been recognized in UNICEF’s Digital Tool Selection Guidebook for Health Campaigns, a newly released resource on health campaign digitalization. Having contributed to this guidebook's development alongside UNICEF and Clinton...
Introduction The City of Somerville, Massachusetts has long demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing community health through the work of its local public health teams. Their Public Health Nurses (PHNs) and Community Health Workers (CHWs) support residents across...
This case study, originally featured in Philanthropy Impact Magazine (page 16), is complemented by the above image, courtesy of Taking Pictures, Changing Lives Foundation. "Now that I can read, I was elected as a women’s representative in our community. I also...
The Case for Frontline Worker Resilience Frontline workers are the backbone of essential services worldwide, often operating under pressure with limited resources. In Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), burnout among frontline health workers is driven by several...
Recent budget cuts across international development have created an unprecedented challenge for program teams worldwide. USAID alone has seen over 80% of its funding cancelled, forcing implementing organizations to do more with dramatically fewer resources. Teams that...
AmeriCorps Community Health Worker Jesus Nieves speaks to Dimagi staff in Puerto Rico, March 2025 Volunteers of America (VOA) is one of the nation’s largest and most established human services organizations, reaching more than 2 million people annually across 47...
Introduction Frontline health workers (FLWs) play a critical role in increasing access to health care and health information in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, many FLW programs face resource constraints around training, supervision, and coaching....
On January 20th, the United States government announced the start of a USAID restructuring that has since had a significant impact on the global development industry. In the immediate term, our focus is on supporting our partners as they navigate new challenges. Here...
As we step into 2025, the world of global health and development faces an increasingly uncertain and complex landscape. We don’t know what new challenges 2025 will bring us, but we are clear that the need for essential services continues to grow and funding continues...
Why Many Mobile Data Collection Apps Struggle When you decide to build a mobile data collection app, where do you start? Most teams jump straight into a form builder, recreating their paper surveys question by question. Three months later, they're stuck with an app...