Experience sharing and problem-solving session #2 (10 March 2022)

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

As of Monday, they are working together in the first IA2030 Full Learning Cycle facilitated by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

Each Movement Member has identified a specific challenge.

In this session, a Member presents their challenge and the issues they face.

The entire group is asked to share their experience to help solve the problems.

This will be done through the use of the Ideas Engine, a local innovation sourcing platform for sharing practices and ideas.

This session is facilitated by Charlotte Mbuh and Dr. François Gasse.

Learn more:

This special session is moderated by Chizoba Wonodi (Johns Hopkins) and Laura Nic Lochlainn (World Health Organization)

Our panelists from the frontlines are alumni of The Geneva Learning Foundation's COVID-19 Peer Hub.

What is this about?

1. Share key learnings on what worked in the efforts of frontline health workers to restore immunization services disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak 

2. Identify the strategies being adopted by country programs and frontline managers to restore and maintain routine immunization as the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out

Maintaining routine immunization in the era of COVID-19. A view from the frontlines

As attention turns to ensuring the success of the COVID-19 vaccine deployment, we face the ever-present risk that RI will take a back seat, putting childhood vaccination in continued jeopardy.

The USAID-funded Momentum And Global Leadership project is organizing this Practice Exchange Forum to answer the questions:

What are national and subnational EPI leaders and actors doing to keep RI on the front burner as an essential service to be provided?

What can the global immunization community do to ensure that children continue to receive critical life-saving vaccines, even as COVID-19 vaccination efforts target adults?

These questions and others will be examined by an esteemed panel of frontline providers and technical experts, who have been carefully selected from diverse settings to bring a fresh take on these issues.

Learn more about USAID-funded MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL)

https://usaidmomentum.org/resource/momentum-country-and-global-leadership-factsheet/

Learn more and request your invitation to Teach to Reach

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Topic: What drives confidence and uptake? Introduction to the behavioural and social drivers of vaccination

Guest: Lisa Menning (WHO)

Resources:

1. https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/essential-programme-on-immunization/demand

2. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-vaccination-demand-planning-2021.1

Join Charlotte Mbuh from The Geneva Learning Foundation to learn about the world's new vision and strategy for the future of immunization.

Immunization is one of the best health investments money can buy.

Yet despite tremendous progress, far too many people around the world – including nearly 20 million infants each year – have insufficient access to vaccines.

In some countries, progress has stalled or even reversed, and there is a real risk that complacency will undermine past achievements.

To address these challenges over the next decade, a new global vision and strategy titled ‘Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind (IA2030)’ has been endorsed by the World Health Assembly.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Topic: Vaccine Safety - a Practical Perspective

Guest: Madhava Ram Balakrishnan, Medical Officer, Global Vaccine Safety, WHO

Key messages: New Performance Indicators for the coming decade to monitor vaccine safety in countries

Resources: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/10665345178

Join Charlotte Mbuh from The Geneva Learning Foundation to learn about the world's new vision and strategy for the future of immunization.

Immunization is one of the best health investments money can buy.

Yet despite tremendous progress, far too many people around the world – including nearly 20 million infants each year – have insufficient access to vaccines.

In some countries, progress has stalled or even reversed, and there is a real risk that complacency will undermine past achievements.

To address these challenges over the next decade, a new global vision and strategy titled ‘Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind (IA2030)’ has been endorsed by the World Health Assembly.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

On Monday, March 7, 2022, they will meet for the first time to launch the first Full Learning Cycle for IA2030, proposed by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

In 2020, global immunization coverage levels for infants dropped back to 2009 levels. We lost 11 years of hard work.

This is why we are calling you to join the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Share experience with over 40,000 fellow immunization professionals from 110 countries

The Geneva Learning Foundation and its partners invite you to join the global movement to achieve the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030. The first exercise kicks off on 7 March 2022.

Apply now to join the Movement for IA2030…

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

The Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) is a global initiative owned by everyone, with a common purpose: to achieve the goals of IA2030. The Geneva Learning Foundation’s immunization platform seeks to contribute to the emergence of this Movement.

This #TeachToReach Special Event “How we keep going to keep immunization going during the pandemic” is part of the Launch of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

If we are going to build a Movement together for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), we need to take care of and support each other.

Learn more about the Movement for IA2030…

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

If you work in immunization, you have kept vaccination going during the pandemic and are now the key to the success of COVID-19 vaccination.

You may get great satisfaction from your work, but you are also likely to face great hardship.

Before we ask you about the challenges you face, we would like to better understand what keeps you going.

What are the worst and best parts of your job? Where do you find the motivation to continue your work? What helps you feel involved in your work?

How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed how you feel about your work? What makes you lose or gain your motivation?

Sharath Jeevan, a leading global expert on the topic of motivation, will be our “Guide on the Side” in the upcoming Special Event on motivation at the fifth Teach to Reach: Connect, the leading networking event for immunization professionals from all over the world. This means he will listen to the experience shared by practitioners and then share his feedback and insights, grounded in his expertise.

View our Lightning Chat with Sharath Jeevan…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T9rbOWN_lA

Learn more about Teach to Reach & request your invitation

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

We believe that women who deliver vaccines have a powerful story to tell.

This story should be told by women themselves, even as we work hand in hand with men.

Last year, on International Women’s Day, we honored women on the frontlines working tirelessly to maintain immunization services during the COVID-19 pandemic, support the vaccine rollout, and pursue efforts to reach the 20 million children who remain at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases. More than 800 women responded by participating and sharing their experience in an awesome event.

Click here to view our 2021 event…

https://youtu.be/LcSBxv6bY4Y?t=265

Learn more & request your invitation

https://www.learning.foundation/iwd

Learn more about Teach to Reach

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

In 2020, global immunization coverage levels for infants dropped back to 2009 levels. We lost 11 years of hard work.

This is why we are calling you to join the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Share experience with over 40,000 fellow immunization professionals from 110 countries

The Geneva Learning Foundation and its partners invite you to join the global movement to achieve the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030. The first exercise kicks off on 7 March 2022.

Apply now to join the Movement for IA2030…

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

The Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) is a global initiative owned by everyone, with a common purpose: to achieve the goals of IA2030. The Geneva Learning Foundation’s immunization platform seeks to contribute to the emergence of this Movement.

Click here to register for the Global Launch Event of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 and the 1st IA2030 Full Learning Cycle.

https://us02web.zoom.us/s/85007471809

Join us today for our third Insights Live session.

What did we learn from Teach to Reach: Connect 4?

As we count down to Teach to Reach: Connect 5 on 4 March 2022, we are pleased to share with you a selection of valuable insights, based on feedback from more than 1,600 participants of Teach to Reach: Connect 4.

Topics we explored include:

* Immunization and PHC as we catch-up on routine immunization

* Challenging vaccine hesitancy in districts and health facilities

* Health professional COVID-19 vaccination

Specific sessions analyzed include:

* IA2030 Consultation on safeguarding and strengthening essential immunization and primary health care during COVID 19 vaccine rollout

* IA2030 Brainstorming to cocreate a common dialogue with participants on immunization programs for PHC and UHC

* Immunization and PHC during rollout of COVID vaccine: can we do it all?

Learn more & request your invitation

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

What are we learning from the applicants to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030?

As of this morning, 1993 francophones and 2,639 anglophones have joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

More than 80 percent are sub-national staff working in districts and health facilities, and over half work for their Ministry of Health.

Everyone who joins answered questions about their work and well-being, the most urgent challenge they face, and the support you need to tackle this challenge.

We also asked you about the effect of the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine for routine immunization (RI) and primary health care (PHC) services where you work and about the strategies you are using to successfully reach unvaccinated or undervaccines “zero-dose” children and “missed” communities.

Today, we share a quick overview of what we have learned from such a large number and diversity of inputs.

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.

View our #Insights dialogue with Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization at the World Health Organization (WHO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCB20y49hBI&t=26s

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.

WHAT IS THE INSIGHTS UNIT?

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.

Learn more:

https://www.learning.foundation/insights

Lightning Chat with Sharath Jeevan, one of the world’s leading experts on re-igniting our inner drive.

We will discuss what might be the ultimate motivational challenge: how are overburdened, often underpaid immunization staff keeping going during the pandemic?

Sharath Jeevan will be our “Guide on the Side” for the upcoming Special Event on motivation at the fifth Teach to Reach: Connect, the leading networking event for immunization professionals from all over the world.

Over 40,000 health professionals have joined Teach to Reach.

Learn more and request your invitation:

https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

This #TeachToReach Special Event “How we keep going to keep immunization going during the pandemic” is part of the Launch of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

Learn more about Immunization Agenda 2030

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

If we are going to build a Movement together for Immunization Agenda 2030, we need to take care and support each other.

If you work in immunization, you have kept vaccination going during the pandemic and are now the key to the success of COVID-19 vaccination.

You may get great satisfaction from your work, but you are also likely to face great hardship.

Before we ask you about the challenges you face, we would like to better understand what keeps you going.

What are the worst and best parts of your job? Where do you find the motivation to continue your work? What helps you feel involved in your work?

How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed how you feel about your work? What makes you lose or gain your motivation?