Health Phone [Videos, Website]

HealthPhone™ is a personal video reference library and guide to better health and nutrition practices, for families and communities, including the illiterate, in their language, distributed on mobile phones.

HealthPhone™ provides families with their own personal reference library and guide to better health practices. Available in real time, right to those who need it, when they need it and when a health problem is about to strike, where they are, and as they are.

There is no signal or connection required. HealthPhone’sover 1,400 health and nutrition videos are available on the following topics:

  • Timing of Pregnancy
  • Births
  • Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health
  • Child Development and Early Learning
  • Breastfeeding
  • Nutrition and Growth, Immunization
  • Diarrhea
  • Coughs, Colds and More Serious Illnesses
  • Hygiene
  • Malaria
  • HIV
  • Child Protection
  • Injury Prevention
  • Emergencies: preparedness and response

This knowledge, in 61 languages, is pre-loaded on microSD chips for popular low-cost models of mobile phones – no signal is required, nor cost to download videos and other media. Users choose what they want to watch and listen to and when, wherever they happen to be.

Source: HealthPhone

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

How to Keep Healthy

This booklet was written for parents of children from 3 to 6 years of age, to help them explain their child’s HIV status. At this age, children may ask many questions about why they go to the clinic or why they have to take medicines.

The booklet explains the various ways in which the parents will work with the child and medical personnel to keep the child healthy. It also discusses their relationships with their friends, how they may feel, and how important it is to discuss their concerns with their parents.

Source: USAID, PEPFAR

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

How to Prevent Cholera

This fact sheet offers information about cholera prevention related to sanitation, food and water. It also covers signs and symptoms, treatment, and treatment of water.

The Arabic version of this fact sheet is located here.

Source: Hesperian Foundation

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Implication des leaders religieux à travers une conception centrée sur l’humain au Niger/ Engaging Religious Leaders through Human Centered Design in Niger

A partir de la recherche ethnographique et participative, Transform / PHARE a cherché à découvrir les points de vue et les connaissances des jeunes et des chefs religieux sur les produits et services de santé reproductive dans trois départements et neuf villages de la région de Zinder. Par des entretiens, des observations, des activités de recherche participatives et des ateliers de co-conception (n = 81 chefs religieux et jeunes), le projet et les publics visés ont exploré comment les normes sociales, les pairs, la famille, les aspirations, la religion et les contraintes financières affectent les attitudes et les décisions. -Faire de la santé reproductive. Le rapport des activités est ecrit en français et anglais.


Drawing from ethnographic and participatory research, Transform/PHARE sought to uncover youth and religious leaders’ perspectives on and knowledge of reproductive health products and services in three departments and nine villages in the Zinder region. Through interviews, observation, participatory research activities, and co-design workshops (n= 81 religious leaders and youth), the project and the intended audiences explored how social norms, peers, family, aspirations, religion, and financial constraints affect attitudes and decision-making regarding reproductive health. The activity report is written in
English and French.

Source: Transform/PHARE

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Innovations Lab in Burkina Faso/ Laboratoire des innovations au Burkina Faso

Un atelier participatif de quatre jours («Innovation Lab») utilisant les principes d’inspiration et d’idéation HCD et avec la participation de participants non traditionnels (entrepreneurs, musiciens, comédiens), cinq équipes ont identifié des interventions pour augmenter l’engagement masculin dans la PF. Trois idées sont sélectionnées pour la phase de prototypage, et une intervention sélectionnée est pilotée pendant trois mois par une ONG locale. Le rapport d’activité est disponible en anglais et en français. La cartographie des interventions existantes auprès des hommes est également incluse.


A four-day participative workshop (“Innovation Lab”) using HCD principles of inspiration and ideation and with the input from non-traditional participants (e.g., entrepreneurs, musicians, comedians) five teams identified interventions to increase male engagement in FP. Three ideas are selected for the prototyping phase, and one selected intervention is piloted for three months by a local NGO. Activity report is available in English and French. Mapping of existing interventions reaching men also included.

Source: Transform/PHARE

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

SIMILIAR RESOURCES

Tools

Examples

Manuel de Reference pour la Formation en Supervision [Reference Manual for Supervision Training]

This is a training manual in which supervisors can master knowledge, attitudes or skills by employing the following methods:

  • Active participation of the learner. This approach to training allows the participant to have a learning experience that he or she leads. This is accomplished with the help of a trainer who acts as a facilitator and a modification of the concept of evaluation and use of test results.
  • Supervision of the participant. This approach to training gives the model behaviors to learn, is competency-based and incorporates humanistic training techniques.
  • Within the framework of the learning to master approach, evaluation:
    • is competency-based, meaning it relates to the objectives of the workshop and emphasizes the acquisition of the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for performance at work and not just The acquisition of new knowledge.
    • dynamic, because it allows participants to receive continuous feedback on their success in achieving the objectives of the course.
    • less stressful, because from the outset participants, individually and collectively, know what they are supposed to learn; They also know where to find the information and they have enough time to discuss it with the trainer.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Methodes de Contraception Flipbook

This flipbook was developed as part of a wider program to use advanced audience segmentation (AAS) techniques in order to properly direct family planning (FP) messages to specific audiences.

Through surveys and research, the project team learned more about the contraceptive needs of specific groups of men and women. Once that information was available, stakeholders wanted to see how it could be used to improve family planning counseling sessions.

In 2014-2015, the Hewlett Foundation, Nigerien Ministry of Health, and Camber Collective came together with Pathfinder International’s Animas Sutura project to use the Nigerien AAS results to develop and pilot a series of rapid assessment tools for community health workers who conduct household visits in health centers in Maradi and Tillabéri, Niger. This flipbook, a questionnaire, and counseling cards were part of this toolkit.

The flipbook reviews modern contraceptive methods to assist the health worker in explaining the methods, using illustrations and text.

Source: Pathfinder International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Niger Male Segmentation Analysis

Cette recherche n’a pas été réalisée dans l’ordre Identifier les segments masculins au Niger qui étaient les plus susceptibles de changer leurs attitudes et comportements envers la PF, et fournir des principes de haut niveau pour la conception et la mise en œuvre d’interventions ciblant ces segments.

Les objectifs de la recherche étaient:

  • Identifier et capturer les facteurs qui influencent la prise de décision masculine en matière de planification familiale
  • Identifier des segments d’hommes dans les trois régions cibles de Maradi, Zinder et Tillabéri qui sont plus ou moins susceptibles de changer leurs attitudes et comportements à l’égard de la PF

Le lien offre les versions française et anglaise du rapport.


This research was undetaken in order Identify male segments in Niger that were most likely to change their attitudes and behaviors towards FP, and provide high-level principles for the design and implementation of interventions targeting these segments.

The objectives of the research were:

  • Identify and capture the factors that influence male decision-making with regards to family planning
  • Identify segments of men in the three target regions of Maradi, Zinder, and Tillabéri that are more or less likely to change their attitudes and behaviors towards FP

The link offers both the French and English versions of the report.

Source: Transform/PHARE

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Overcoming Social Barriers to Family Planning Use: Harnessing Community Networks to Address Unmet Need

This report describes how the Tékponon Jikuagou team developed a project to overcome sovial barriers to family planning by utilizing social networks.

The results of a baseline survey conducted in 2013 by Tekponon Jikuagou revealed the importance of social barriers to FP use. In fact, 36% of women reported that it is not acceptable to talk about family planning in public.

To address these barriers, the Tékponon Jikuagou project in Malawi intervened through social networks, applying network theory and analysis to move beyond a view of women and men as individuals, to an understanding of them as members of formal and informal social networks. Tékponon Jikuagou represents one of the first applications of SNA in the field of FP.

The attached file has both the English and French versions of the report.

Source: Institute for Reproductive Health/Georgetown

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Plan d’Action de Lutte Contre la Maladie a Virus Ebola en Cote d’Ivoire [Action Plan for Ebola Virus in Cote D’Ivoire]

This matrix lays out the various steps in the planning for a full range of actions in the event of an Ebola virus outbreak on Cote d’Ivoire. It includes steps for:

  • Organization
  • Informing the population
  • Epidemiologic surveillance
  • Prevention activities
  • National capacity surveillance
  • Dealing with livestock
  • Observation/monitoring
  • Research

For each segment of activities, it lists the activity, output/expectations, person responsible, time frame, and cost.

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019