Client

UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund. PANEOTECH delivers child protection and education platforms in partnership with UNICEF country offices across Africa.

  • Multilateral / Children & Education
  • HQ in United States
  • 3 projects with PANEOTECH
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Countries

Where we work with UNICEF

Projects PANEOTECH has delivered in partnership with UNICEF across 3 countries.

Continental 1
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1
Mauritania 1

Engagements

Projects with UNICEF

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Veilleurs du Web, Youth-Led Digital Fact-Checking and Anti-Misinformation Platform for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A digital platform delivered by PANEOTECH for UNICEF DRC supporting the Veilleurs du Web programme, the youth-led fact-checking initiative that has trained five hundred young Congolese aged fourteen to twenty-four to combat misinformation and online violence across the country's digital public sphere. The platform combines a public-facing fact-checking and educational website with a private member workspace for the Veilleurs themselves and an administrative backend for the programme team, all delivered as a responsive web application and a Trusted Web Activity Android application.

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Continental

The Muskoka Fund Collaborative Platform, Knowledge Sharing and Coordination for the Joint UN Mechanism on Maternal and Child Health

A collaborative knowledge and coordination platform delivered by PANEOTECH for UNICEF on behalf of the Muskoka Fund, the joint UN mechanism coordinating the World Health Organization, UN Women, the United Nations Population Fund, and UNICEF across nine francophone countries in West and Central Africa. The platform consolidates a multi-format documentary library, a collaborative working environment for inter-agency teams, and an operational tools layer with interactive maps, calendars, consultant rosters, and team directories.

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Mauritania

Mauritania Young Child Nutrition Knowledge App, A Free Mobile Tool for Vulnerable Populations and Caregivers

A free mobile application delivered by PANEOTECH in joint venture with Effica SYS Co SARL for UNICEF Mauritania, designed to strengthen the nutrition knowledge of vulnerable populations and caregivers feeding young children. The platform combines expert-validated content on infant and young child feeding with an offline-capable mobile interface engineered for the connectivity, language, and literacy realities of the Mauritanian context. The engagement covers needs assessment, content design with nutrition experts, mobile and backend development, testing, training of community stakeholders, and post-deployment support.

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Offline-First, Multilingual Mobile Architecture: Engineering Knowledge Platforms for Sahel Connectivity

A mobile knowledge platform for the Sahel that assumes continuous connectivity and a single language is a platform the audience cannot use. Offline-first multilingual architecture is not a feature. It is the structural premise that decides whether the platform reaches the users whose decisions it exists to inform.

Field Notes

Translating Institutional Frameworks into Caregiver-Ready Content: Editorial Discipline for Infant and Young Child Feeding Platforms

The WHO and UNICEF infant and young child feeding framework is widely accepted institutionally. Translating it into content that caregivers can use in the moment of decision is a different problem. The architectural answer is editorial discipline, and the engineering supports it rather than replacing it.

Case Studies

Mobile Knowledge Platforms for Vulnerable Populations: The UNICEF Mauritania Young Child Nutrition App

Institutional nutrition frameworks reach caregivers unevenly through frontline health workers and mass communications. A free mobile knowledge platform reaches them in the moments of decision the frameworks exist to inform. The architectural answer is content the audience controls, and the discipline is institutional rather than technical.

Tutorials

Low-Bandwidth Web Performance for African Audiences: Engineering for Sub-3-Second Loads on Constrained Connections

A web platform that takes ten seconds to load on the connections the audience actually has is a platform the audience does not use. Engineering for sub-three-second performance on constrained connections is not a feature. It is the discipline that decides whether the audience reaches the platform at all.

Field Notes

Engineering Public-Facing Content with Private Member Workflows: Three-Tier Architecture for Volunteer-Driven Platforms

A volunteer-driven content platform has three substantively different audiences with three substantively different needs. A single-tier deployment fails all of them. The architectural answer is three distinct surfaces sharing a single backbone, and the discipline is editorial as much as engineering.

Case Studies

Youth-Led Digital Fact-Checking at National Scale: The Veilleurs du Web Programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Top-down fact-checking campaigns reach the audiences that already trust the institutions running them. Youth-led fact-checking reaches the audiences institutions cannot. The architectural answer is a platform that supports the volunteers themselves, and the discipline that makes it work is institutional rather than technical.

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