Background

Blockchain for the greater good
It was on April 24, 2021, that Sandeep Nailwal, the Founder of Polygon Network, a blockchain project, took to Twitter to announce the setting up of a Crypto Relief Fund to help people in need. He rallied some of the best minds from the blockchain community to come together and called for the global crypto ecosystem to endorse the fund.
The Paradigm shift
What started as a Samaritan in emergency response has now transitioned towards a system that is involved in introducing programmatic interventions across the public health space at micro and macro levels. Stichting Blockchain For Impact Foundation constitutes a visionary cohort of individuals who strive to build comprehensive health systems for the future. Forging multi-sector collaborations, we aim to utilize skills, commitment, and technology for addressing current challenges and future gaps centred around health.

Our Work

Supporting global healthcare system through a cohort of comprehensive themes.
Biomedical Research and Innovation

Primary Objectives

  • Promote translational research and improve healthcare outcomes.
  • Empowering the healthcare and medical communities with access to state-of-the-art technologies and tools.
  • Enable respective communities to tap into the funding and mentorship program that will be devised under the very aegis of the institute.
  • Encouraging and forging medical, academic, and industry partnerships throughout India.
District Full-Stack Program

Primary Objectives

  • Enable the co-creation and funding of solutions for pressing problem statements in direct collaboration with the individuals directly impacted by them.
  • Cultivate and empower local innovation ecosystems by assisting communities in mobilizing essential resources for:
  1. Identifying problems and formulating precise problem statements.
  2. Conducting practical and feasible HCD research to generate usable insights.
  3. Building capacity in human-centered design, problem-solving, resource mobilization, and sense-making at the district level.
  4. Prioritizing issues and making informed decisions through various tools and processes.
  5. Nurturing the development of local solutions that are viable, affordable, acceptable, and manageable.
What exactly are we doing?
Here’s a synopsis of our implementation plan.
Partner and Understand
  • Preparation of district fact sheet, selection of districts based on (Typology, Demography, Health      Indicators, Themes, performance around health system building blocks, etc.)
  • Partners selection (trusted, with good social capital aligned with DFS idea) Reverse Auction MoU with      the Districts.
  • Stakeholders consultation, formation of multi partner (Govt. CBOS, community members, user groups, service providers, etc.) District Health Learning Labs (DHLL)
  • Training partners on HCD and its principles.
District team + Partners + Community Members + Service providers + Fellows
Diagnose and Prioritize
  • Defining the problem statement (Divergence and convergence), stakeholder analysis, etc.
  • Diagnosis (Ethnographic, participatory, Heuristic review, etc.), Assumptions, Problem tree analysis, abstraction laddering, etc.
  • Stakeholder consultation, design workshop-Creative matrix, storyboarding, rough and ready prototyping. concept posters, etc.
  • Setting up of governance, accountability, and M&E process.
  • Detailed Project/Pilot Roadmap.
District Team + Partners + Community members + Design team+ Innovation partner + Fellows, etc
Design, Apply, and Stabilize
  • Designing and co-creation of the interventions.
  • Pilot testing/prototyping.
  • Action Reflection cycle.
  • Feedback sessions (communication and feedback loops).
  • Refining the intervention/s.
  • Documenting Change.
  • Testing in multiple sites (validation).
District Team + Partners + Community members + Design team Innovation partner, etc + Governance + M&E + Fellows + Facilitators
Leverage and Scale
  • Advocacy and scaleup.
  • Leverage Institutionalizing (PIP, budgets.), CSR, large funders, etc.
  • District → State → National (may not always be in this order, will depend on the type of intervention).
  • Dissemination workshops + Knowledge documents, playbooks, etc.
  • Advocacy and Communication + Research team.
Advocacy and Communication + Research team

Partnering with Unicef

Strengthening Public Health Through Collaborative Problem-Solving
Blockchain for Impact (BFI) and UNICEF have joined hands to support the Government of India achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through strengthening health systems and focus on community based primary health care. This will contribute to the realization of the rights to life and health of all children, especially the most disadvantaged.

The partnership was signed by Sandeep Nailwal, Founder, BFI and Cynthia McCaffrey, UNICEF Representative to India at Delhi.

This two-year partnership, using human centric design principles and grassroots driven solutions, will focus on:

Supporting pregnant women, newborns, and children, including adolescents, especially the most vulnerable, to have equitable access, and utilize gender-responsive quality health services and adopt healthy behaviors.

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