Through 2017-2019, the Bertha Centre received funding from Johnson & Johnson to provide support to 5 pan-African organisations that are using mobile technology to deliver quality services at the frontlines of health care delivery and improve community health outcomes. This project enabled the Bertha Centre to use and leverage its expertise, relationships, history of success and wealth of academic and practical talent to drive social innovation in health among a key set of mobile health organisations across East and West Africa: Last Mile Health, VillageReach, Living Goods, Muso, and the Ihangane Project.

Through cohort calls, peer-to-peer site visits, dedicated learning partnerships, attendance at the Systems Change and Social Impact course, and a number of in-person convenings including the Health Systems Entrepreneurship symposium, this workenabled the Betha Centre to develop an understanding around howsocial innovation organisations in Africa are working towards greater integration of their interventions across and within health systems, and how a better appreciation of these enabling conditions can contribute to an articulated understanding of health systems integration.