I’m excited to pass on Clear Solutions‘ first newsletter. They’ve only been going for 4 months and they’ve got lots to report. If you’d like to receive your own copy in future (as we will not be re-publishing them here), please subscribe by going to their website and clicking on the Newsletter link. January 2024 […]
Top 5 Highlights in 2023
31 December 2023 by
2009’s top 10 | 2010’s top 10 | 2011’s top 10 | 2012’s top 10 | 2013’s top 10 2014’s top 10 | 2015’s top 10 | 2016’s top 10 | 2017’s top 10 | 2018’s top 10 2019’s top 5 | 2020’s top 5 | 2021’s top 3 | 2022’s top 5 This is the fifteenth and final […]
ColaLife to close down at the end of 2023
5 September 2023 by
It has always been the view of our board of trustees and the ColaLife co-founders that ColaLife should not outlive its usefulness. We’ve achieved far more than we ever anticipated. And the changes we’ve brought about now sit with mainstream organisations much more powerful than we could ever be. So, ColaLife will close down gracefully […]
ColaLife trial highlights published by the BMJ
8 June 2022 by
We are pleased to announce that the highlights of the ColaLife trial have now been published as a peer-reviewed paper by the BMJ in the BMJ’s Special Supplement on Social innovations in health. The title of the paper is: Emulating value-chains of fast-moving consumer goods to improve uptake of co-packaged ORS and zinc for childhood […]
Ceniarth agree to reschedule support to ColaLife
26 April 2022 by
At the end of 2019, we started the final, 2-year, phase of our work supported by Ceniarth, reported here: Ceniarth to support ColaLife for two more years. As for many health initiatives, in early 2020, COVID intervened and we’ve had to revise our plans several times. We’re delighted to report that on 22-Apr-22, Ceniarth agreed […]
The ColaLife Playbook launches today (28-Oct-20)
28 October 2020 by
After more than two years of development the ColaLife Playbook launches today as a living, online, interactive document that is open to all. Anyone can access it here: bit.ly/colalifeplaybook. ColaLife set out to help transform access to diarrhoea treatment in Zambia to save lives and reduce stunting. Now we want to assist others to do […]
Emulating Value Chains of Consumer Goods to Save Lives
27 January 2020 by
Just before Christmas this independent academic analysis of our work was published by the prestigious IBM Center for The Business of Government. The work that went into this report was led by Paulo Savaget, a Gates Scholar completing his PhD at Cambridge University, who is now Assistant Professor at the University of Durham and a […]
Success: WHO adds co-packaged ORS and Zinc to its Essential Medicines List
9 July 2019 by
Our application* to get co-packaged ORS and zinc on the WHO Essential Medicines List has been successful. This is game-changer. It moves ColaLife’s work out of the ‘innovation box’ into the mainstream of global children’s public health – with better designed, easier-to-dispense diarrhoea treatment available for sick children – potentially everywhere. A summary of the […]
Latest figures on the use of zinc for diarrhoea treatment in Zambia
7 July 2019 by
Zambia: Commercially branded co-packaged ORS and zinc – Kit Yamoyo (left) | Government branded co-packaged ORS and zinc (right) The latest Demographic & Health Survey (DHS, 2019) has just been published for Zambia. These surveys are undertaken every five years under the DHS Program. The report just published for Zambia (PDF 1.4MB) shows a dramatic […]
What is self-sustaining development?
27 March 2019 by
The Kit Yamoyo diarrhoea treatment kit under production in Zambia for the local Zambian market. The kit was designed and the local market developed using one-off donor funding. It is very common to hear the term “sustainable development” in international development discussions. But what does it mean? The phrase can be used interchangeably, to mean […]
