UNICEF Cholera Toolkit

This toolkit aims to provide UNICEF Offices, counterparts and partners with one source of information for prevention (or risk reduction) and control of cholera outbreaks, preparedness, response and recovery – including integration with regular/development programs.

The toolkit aims to provide guidance primarily for the health and WASH sectors; nevertheless guidelines are presented in an integrated manner, to avoid the continuation of ‘silo’ approaches for cholera prevention, preparedness and response. In addition, the toolkit includes specific content linked to Education, Nutrition, C4D, Protection and other relevant sectors.

The primary target audience for this toolkit is UNICEF staff at all levels and across all divisions and sections in the UNICEF Country, Regional and HQ Offices. It may however also be useful for government counterparts and partners such as NGOs, UN and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working in cholera prevention, preparedness and response.

The toolkit comprises a main document, a series of annexes (templates, checklists, spread sheets and more detailed reference information) and a selection of additional resources (an electronic library including published papers, IEC materials, cholera guidelines, training packages, examples of mapping and a range of other practical information). Links to web-based resources are included throughout the electronic version of the main document. Complementarily, a set of ‘Roadmaps’ (graphic instructions on how to use the different elements of the Toolkit for specific purposes such as developing a preparedness plan or setting up an outbreak response plan) are provided as part of the main document.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

U-Report Zambia

Zambia U-Report platform provides confidential, free of charge, individualized and interactive counseling services on HIV and STIs to adolescents and youth.

In addition to the SMS counseling, polls are conducted periodically to get the opinions of young people. The platform enables tailored SMS demand creation for available services, and referral to the U-Reporter’s closest location for HIV Testing and Counseling, Voluntary Medicalised Male Circumcision and Anti-Retroviral Treatment.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Transforming Immunization Dialogue

This video is part of a package of materials, including other short videos, for health workers, called Interpersonal Communication for Immunization.

The videos illustrate interpersonal communication-based challenges and solutions to improving immunization coverage and are intended to be used as job aids to support frontline health workers as they address barriers to immunization in their communities.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Youth Against COVID-19 – Episode 1

UNFPA is teaming up with Prezi to help young people around the world learn about COVID-19 and how they can help keep their friends, families, and communities safe.

This episode, produced in partnership with the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association, will teaches about COVID-19. Users can re-create the video to share with their family and friends. This encourages and enables sharing correct and reliable information to take action to stop the spread of COVID-19. The key messages of this episode are available to help the viewer remember the most important information to share: https://prez.is/youthagainstcovid19-script-v1/.

Scripts for the videos are available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/11krihwwB91A9NAm3cDPs81LrAZvEfpIB0D-gTCm_zAs/edit so that each young person delivers the same correct message.

Visitors can go to https://prez.is/youthagainstcovid19-tips/ to learn how to create their own videos. A gallery of the videos made by other youth around the world is at https://prezi.com/video/explore/search/?search_term=covid19.

Source: Prezi Video, UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

The Situation Analysis of Children and Women in Belize: An Ecological Review

This document serves as the guiding document for the elaboration of the Country Programme of Cooperation between UNICEF and the Government of Belize (2013-20161 ), and will contribute to the development of the new Common Country Assessment (CCA) and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).

It incorporates a substantial number of surveys, assessments, evaluations and studies that have been conducted by the government of Belize (GOB), the National Commission on Families and Children (NCFC), Non-Governmental Organisations, UNICEF and other UN agencies, and other development and local organisations, updating and providing additional information on the status of women and children in Belize and the factors contributing to their current status. Impacts of the changing economic environment in Belize as a consequence of the global recession are documented.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

No Time to Lose: Child Marriage

This video outlines the multitude of problems created by the phenomenon of child marriage, inclduing those that affect their health, education, and economic status.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Message Guide for Ebola Communication

This document compiles current information and key messages about the Ebola outbreak in Liberia to inform activities designed to raise awareness, mobilize communities, and promote safe behaviors to stop the spread of Ebola in Liberia.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Addressing Rumors or Myths and Role in Vaccine Safety Events

This video is part of a package of materials, including other short videos, for health workers, called Interpersonal Communication for Immunization.

The video tells a story about an immunization program which has been going well until a rumor begins that one child in a community far from the capital has become sick after receiving a vaccine. The rumor becomes stronger every day and there is concern that the rumor might make parents concerned about bringing their children for vaccination. Frontline workers (FLWs) go to the house of the sick children and find out from the child’s mother that she never thought her son was sick due to the vaccination he received. The mother agrees to speak to others during a community gathering to explain that her son’s illness was not caused by his vaccination. She also responds to a few questions to reassure other caregivers about the safety and advantages of immunization.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Communication Strategy and Workplan for Avian Influenza

The goals of this communication strategy are:

  • Improve knowledge of certain practices such as the risk of children playing / handling poultry and hygienic means to dispose poultry wastes.
  • Increase the percent of the public who believe that they could be infected by AI (i.e. increase the perception of possible risk for individuals) and / or who think that their children could be at serious risk if they handle poultry.
  • Decrease the percent of children playing / handling poultry in the areas of intervention
  • Decrease the percent of the public who purchase chicken from un-safe sources (lay merchants)
  • Contribute to the preparation of behavioral messages for home care and hygiene in the case of a pandemic outbreak

Source: UNICEF, Government of Egypt

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021