Orodata Science, a foremost civic tech organisation combining data science, technology and research for over 10 years to spearhead advocacy for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria, is officially launching 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 3 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. 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 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 and more to capture continuous and real-time situations of PHCs in their localities to guide better interventions towards revitalising dilapidated and abandoned PHCs across Nigeria.
With the recent claim by the Nigerian government of disbursing over 12 Billion Naira 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 CheckMYPHC platform holds data from primary health centres from 6 states (Sokoto, Taraba, Benue, CrossRiver, Anambra, Osun) from the 6 Geo-political zones (North Central (NC), North East (NE), North West (NW), South West (SW), South East (SE) and South (SS)) in Nigeria unearthing insights and actual state of over 345 PHCs in these hard to reach areas. Phase 2 of the Data collection anticipates reaching over 1000 PHC in 16 states as this will gain momentum immediately after this Launch.
About Orodata Science and Africa Data Hub
Orodata Science and Civic Tech combines 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 (by scanning the Barcode) to join us in marking this ground-breaking event. Physical attendance is strictly by invitation.
