Join Charlotte Mbuh and Ian Steed for a live update from the Geneva Learning Foundation’s new Insights Unit.
We will discuss:
1. Key learning points from Teach to Reach: Connect, in which over 4,000 national and sub-national immunization staff discussed and explored leadership for Immunization Agenda 2030, vaccine equity, and innovation.
2. Gender: Three stories from immunization staff in India and Liberia about the gender barriers they face and what they are doing about them.
3. COVID-10 vaccine introduction: Fresh insights from the latest inter-country peer learning exchange between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon.
Each of these items is the subject of a more detailed TGLF Insights brief. During this event, we will explain how interested parties can gain access to these insights and contribute their own.
Learn more about TGLF’s Insights
https://www.learning.foundation/insights
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities.
As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals.
“The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO)
WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS?
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 40,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams.
We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies.
The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners.
To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners.