Suvita

In India, a child dies every 4 minutes from a vaccine-preventable disease.

The government has made huge strides in strengthening last-mile immunisation infrastructure, meaning that the key remaining barrier is communication with parents. Millions of children each year miss out on getting the right vaccine at the right time because parents lack key information like when or where to attend an immunisation camp.

Suvita works to bridge this last-mile communication gap. We deliver two core programmes:

1) Sending personalised SMS reminders to caregivers when their child is due for a vaccine. This approach is customised to each child's immunisation journey, yet highly scalable thanks to our tech infrastructure.

2) Harnessing the offline social networks that are central to India's villages. We identify opinion leaders and invite them to become immunisation ambassadors, who use their knowledge of the local context to increase awareness and motivation around vaccines in their community.

Our programmes are based on groundbreaking evidence from Nobel-Prize-winning economist Abhijeet Bannerjee and colleagues - together, they can increase immunisation coverage by 25%.

We work closely with state governments in Bihar and Maharashtra, and our SMS reminders already reach hundreds of thousands of new parents across India. As we scale our programmes to support the 25 million children born each year, we aim to help close the immunisation gap, safeguarding a happy and healthy future for India's children.

Find more information at www.suvita.org