News & Stories
Here we share news & stories about our work, collaboration and impact. Read updates from country teams, stories from projects and what’s been on our minds lately.
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D-tree
From volunteers to workers: The Zanzibar Government takes crucial steps to professionalize their community health workforce
Today marks a historic milestone for the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar as they announce the transition of the current cadre of community health volunteers...
D-tree | Dec 16, 2023 | 5 min
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Jamii ni Afya
Community Health Toolkit Selected to Support Zanzibar’s National Community Health Volunteer Program
As announced in June 2018, D-tree International is thrilled to have received support from the Fondation Botnar and Human Development Innovation...
Rachel Hofmann | Dec 20, 2018 | 4 min
Jamii ni Afya
Community Health Volunteers, Digital Health, and a path towards Safer Deliveries: Bi Jokha’s Story
Bi Jokha is one of 400 Community Health Volunteers working in Zanzibar with D-tree’s Safer Deliveries Program. Safer Deliveries leverages mobile...
Samira Said | Oct 09, 2018 | 6 min
D-Tree
3 Reasons Why the Supervisor Role is Important in Digital Community-Based Family Planning Programs
The Supervisor’s role in digital community-based Family Planning programs is often considered an afterthought, but we have seen that the role...
Neema Kafwimi | Sep 06, 2018 | 5 min
Jamii ni Afya
Family Planning Plus: A Comprehensive Digital System
Through 8 years of developing and implementing family planning systems with four NGO partners, we have established the solution Family Planning...
Rebecca Litner | Aug 30, 2018 | 4 min
D-Tree
Leveraging online tools and GIS software to generate routes for an Emergency Transport
Recently, D-tree’s project team performed a task very distinctive from our usual work in an effort to improve the design of our Emergency Transport...
Gloria Kahamba | Aug 21, 2018 | 7 min
Jamii ni Afya
D-tree awarded $6M to support Zanzibar Ministry of Health in national scale-up of digital system
Sabrina Ally Mohammed is a mother of four living in a rural village in Zanzibar. She delivered her first three children at home, without the...
Erica Layer | Jun 15, 2018 | 4 min
