TLDR: DMI is looking for $1,269,000 to scale our child survival projects nationally in Uganda ($765,000) and Mozambique ($504,000), to save over 4,500 under-five lives annually.

DMI Overview

Hi everyone, I’m Alex. I’m a Project Development Officer writing on behalf of Development Media International (DMI). This marginal funding week, DMI is looking to close the funding gap for our national-scale, cost-effective child survival campaigns in Uganda and Mozambique.

DMI runs large-scale mass media campaigns to create informative and engaging programming that focuses on shifting health behaviours to reduce maternal and childhood mortality. DMI develops and delivers live-saving campaigns at scale, reaching over 70 million people in the last quarter. Our messages primarily focus on prevention and treatment-seeking for the three most common preventable causes of death of children under the age of five: malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea. Treatments for these diseases are readily available, effective and usually free at point of need, so children who are taken for prompt treatment have a high chance of survival. We measure our impact using modelled lives saved of children under the age of five.

DMI has conducted two large-scale randomised control trials that have provided gold-standard evidence for our campaigns’ effectiveness (see [...]

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