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Operation Sight Wins Development2030 “SDG Program of the Year” Award

Orbis is thrilled to share that Operation Sight—our collaborative project with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and Simprints—has been named SDG Program of the Year at the Development2030 Awards in Geneva.

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Simprints facial scanning in action

This prestigious recognition celebrates the power of partnership and innovation in driving progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Operation Sight stood out for its transformative impact in tackling one of the world’s leading causes of avoidable blindness—trachoma—across Ethiopia.

Ethiopia carries the highest burden of trachoma globally. Repeat infections can lead to trachomatous trichiasis (TT)—a painful condition where eyelashes turn inward and scratch the eye, causing irreversible blindness if left untreated.

Launched in 2021 with the support of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, Operation Sight set out to eliminate the backlog of TT cases across Amhara, Oromia, Central Ethiopia, South Ethiopia, and Sidama regions.

Operation Sight uses a contactless and hardwareless solution to capture a patient’s facial biometrics.

A First-of-Its-Kind Biometric Solution

The project uses cutting-edge biometric technology from our partner, Simprints. Their facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology ensures that every patient is registered accurately, every surgery is recorded, and every person receives proper follow-up care—streamlining eye health services on a remarkable scale and removing the risk of human error, such as duplicate records or misidentification.

Since its launch, Operation Sight has:

  • Biometrically enrolled 43,000 patients
  • Created digital records for 40,000+ TT surgeries
  • Enabled 57,000 follow-up visits
  • Trained 340 Integrated Eye Care Workers

By cutting the average time to search for patient records from nearly four minutes to just 24 seconds, the technology allows health workers to focus on what matters most—restoring sight.

Operation Sight can now track surgeries, follow-ups, and outcomes in real time.

“By inte­grat­ing bio­met­ric tech­nol­o­gy into tra­choma­tous trichi­a­sis case man­age­ment, we’ve been able to improve patient iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, strength­en data accu­ra­cy, and stream­line ser­vice deliv­ery. This inno­va­tion is help­ing us over­come last-mile chal­lenges and demon­strates the trans­for­ma­tive role dig­i­tal tools can play in scal­ing up Neglect­ed Trop­i­cal Dis­ease pro­grams. It’s inspir­ing to wit­ness tech­nol­o­gy mak­ing such a tan­gi­ble dif­fer­ence in people’s lives and here at Orbis, we’re eager to make the most of new tech­nol­o­gy like this as we work togeth­er toward the elim­i­na­tion of trachoma.”
Alemayehu Sisay, Orbis Ethiopia Country Director

This award affirms what collaboration and innovation can achieve. Together, Orbis, Simprints, and the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health are showing the world how technology can unlock new pathways to improved care—and help bring us closer to a future free from avoidable blindness.

Read more about the SDG Program of the Year Award here. 

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