What is Arifu?
Arifu is an SMS-based learning platform that works anywhere there is a mobile phone. It uses Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach where learner centricity is the heart of the design process. It is a new kind of platform that is taking quality education to scale, providing personalized learning tool that draws from a marketplace of life changing content.
Arifu is an SMS-based learning platform that works anywhere there is a mobile phone. It uses Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach where learner centricity is the heart of the design process. It is a new kind of platform that is taking quality education to scale, providing personalized learning tool that draws from a marketplace of life changing content.
How does it work?
To start learning, the users simply need to send a code via their phones to receive the content through text messages. Arifu’s learning modules are tailor-made for UNCDF’s target populations, covering topics in:
1. Saving
2. How to form or join a savings group
3. How to grow your shares
4. How to use M-Pesa
5. How to use M-Pawa
6. Tell your friends!
To start learning, the users simply need to send a code via their phones to receive the content through text messages. Arifu’s learning modules are tailor-made for UNCDF’s target populations, covering topics in:
1. Saving
2. How to form or join a savings group
3. How to grow your shares
4. How to use M-Pesa
5. How to use M-Pawa
6. Tell your friends!
What are the objectives?
UNCDF works with Arifu:
1. To drive up savings groups membership through provision of information on how to form and joining savings group
2. To strengthen existing savings groups and a savings culture in Nyarugusu
3. To seal the mobile and digital literacy gaps for target group
4. To encourage responsible borrowing from savings groups and M-PAWA
UNCDF works with Arifu:
1. To drive up savings groups membership through provision of information on how to form and joining savings group
2. To strengthen existing savings groups and a savings culture in Nyarugusu
3. To seal the mobile and digital literacy gaps for target group
4. To encourage responsible borrowing from savings groups and M-PAWA
Pilot Results
During the pilot phase, 586 learners were reached by Arifu through blind-SMS. Posters and word-of-mouth were also utilized to reach the potential learners. A total number of 256 people have engaged with the content. The learners who have engaged in the content have consumed an average of 24.7 messages per learner with a total of 6331 messages being pulled by all learners on the platform.
To learn more about the pilot results, check out the slides from our dissemination workshop on the pilot program.
During the pilot phase, 586 learners were reached by Arifu through blind-SMS. Posters and word-of-mouth were also utilized to reach the potential learners. A total number of 256 people have engaged with the content. The learners who have engaged in the content have consumed an average of 24.7 messages per learner with a total of 6331 messages being pulled by all learners on the platform.
To learn more about the pilot results, check out the slides from our dissemination workshop on the pilot program.