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Breakthrough ACTION Guinea’s Community Dialogue Guide and Image Box for Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine
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Guide de dialogue communautaire et boîte à images de Breakthrough ACTION Guinée pour la promotion du vaccin COVID-19 / Breakthrough ACTION Guinea’s Community Dialogue Guide and Image Box for Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Nous sommes ravis de présenter deux outils conçus pour renforcer l’engagement communautaire et promouvoir l’acceptation du vaccin COVID-19 : le “Guide de Dialogue Communautaire” et pour l’accompagner, la “Boite á Image”. Développés par le projet Breakthrough ACTION Guinea, ces ressources sont des outils pratiques pour renforcer l’adhésion à la vaccination”. Le Guide du Dialogue Communautaire est un manuel complet qui permet de planifier et de mettre en œuvre des dialogues communautaires efficaces en facilitant des conversations constructives sur le vaccin COVID-19. Associée à cela, la Boite à Image contient des supports visuels pour compléter les discussions et transmettre des informations cruciales. Ensemble, ces outils donnent aux communautés les moyens de prendre des décisions éclairées et de contribuer à l’effort collectif pour surmonter les défis posés par la pandémie. Les outils sont adaptables à d’autres vaccins ou sujets de santé et ne sont disponibles qu’en français. 

Breakthrough ACTION Guinée souhaite remercier l’équipe du Cameroun pour avoir fourni une base à la Boite à Image.

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Breakthrough ACTION Guinea’s Community Dialogue Guide and Image Box for Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine

This resource includes two innovative tools designed to enhance community engagement and foster COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: the “Guide de Dialogue Communautaire” (Community Dialogue Guide) and its companion “Boite á Image” (Image Box). Developed by the Breakthrough ACTION Guinea project, these resources are a packet of practical tools to strengthen vaccination Adherence. The Community Dialogue Guide serves as a comprehensive manual to plan and implement effective community dialogues by facilitating meaningful conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine. Paired with it, the Image Box contains visual aids to complement discussions and convey crucial information to participants. Together, these tools empower communities to make informed decisions and contribute to the collective effort in overcoming the challenges posed by the pandemic. The tools are adaptable to other vaccines or health topics and only available in French.  

Breakthrough ACTION Guinea would like to thank the Cameroon team for providing a base for the Boite à Image (Image Box).  

Last modified: November 23, 2023

Language: French

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication: 2023

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Toolkit - Gender Analysis for Vaccine Response
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Gender Analysis for Vaccine Response [Toolkit]/Analyse des disparités de genre pour la riposte vaccinale [Boite à outils]

Research on the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for a more gender-equitable approach to vaccine response. As public health agencies around the world work to ensure that everyone has access to vaccines, risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) actors must recognize and address the different ways in which gender can impact vaccine acceptance and uptake.

Breakthrough ACTION developed the Gender Analysis Toolkit for Vaccine Response for RCCE actors working with national health authorities and other partners to develop, implement, and monitor a vaccine response. This toolkit provides practical guidance to identify gender-related barriers that need to be addressed and identify opportunities that can be leveraged to enable a gender-equitable vaccine response that increases coverage for all. While Breakthrough ACTION developed this toolkit based on improving the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, it is applicable to any vaccine response.

Analyse des disparités de genre pour la riposte vaccinale [Boite à outils]

Analyse des disparités de genre pour la riposte vaccinale : Boîte à outils pour les acteurs impliqués dans la communication des risques et l’engagement communautaire

La recherche sur la pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en évidence la nécessité d’une approche plus équitable entre les femmes, les hommes et les personnes aux autres identités de genre dans la réponse vaccinale. Alors que les agences de santé publique du monde entier s’efforcent de garantir l’accès de toutes et tous aux vaccins, les acteurs de la communication sur les risques et de l’engagement communautaire (CREC) doivent reconnaître et prendre en compte les différentes façons dont le genre peut influencer la couverture vaccinale et l’acceptation des vaccins.

Breakthrough ACTION a élaboré une boite à outils pour une analyse ddes disparités de genre pour la riposte vaccinale à l’intention des acteurs de la RCCE qui travaillent avec les autorités sanitaires nationales et d’autres partenaires pour élaborer, mettre en œuvre et surveiller une réponse vaccinale. Cette boîte à outils fournit des conseils pratiques pour identifier les obstacles liés au genre qui doivent être abordés et identifier les opportunités qui peuvent être exploitées pour permettre une riposte vaccinale équitable du point de vue du genre qui augmente la couverture vaccinale pour toutes et tous. Bien que Breakthrough ACTION ait développé cette boîte à outils en se basant sur l’amélioration de l’utilisation des vaccins COVID-19, elle est applicable à toute réponse vaccinale.

Last modified: November 13, 2023

Language: English, French

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication: 2023

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Audience Segmentation for Vaccination Toolkit
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Audience Segmentation for Vaccination [Toolkit]/Segmentation d’audience pour la vaccination [Boite à outils]

This toolkit is intended for use by social and behavioral change communication professionals to encourage vaccine acceptance and uptake by employing segmentation based on attitudes and behaviors of their intended audience.

The goals of this toolkit are to:

  • Familiarize toolkit users with the concept of segmentation and how it can be employed to target messaging during epidemics.
  • Provide resources for policymakers and implementers.
  • Support preparedness efforts to protect against and anticipate needs in the next pandemic.

Segmentation d’audience pour la vaccination [Boite à outils]

Ce boite à outils a été conçu pour aider les professionnels de communication pour le changement social et comportemental à encourager l’acceptation et le recours à la vaccination en utilisant une segmentation basée sur les attitudes et comportements des populations ciblées.

Objectifs de ce boite à outils :

  • Familiariser les utilisateurs du kit avec le concept de segmentation et de son utilisation pour cibler les messages lors d’épidémies ;
  • Fournir des ressources pour les décideurs politiques et les responsables de mise en œuvre ;
  • Soutenir les efforts de préparation pour anticiper les besoins pour la prochaine pandémie.

Last modified: November 10, 2023

Language: English, French

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication: 2023

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Counseling for Choice
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Counseling for Choice: The Choice Book for Providers

Counseling for Choice (C4C) is an evidence-based approach to contraceptive counseling aimed at supporting clients to make the best choice about which method is right for them. C4C was developed to address many of the causes of unmet need for contraception and discontinuation among users who still want to prevent pregnancy. C4C aims to change providers and clients’ participation in voluntary family planning counseling discussions and ensure that clients can use their voice, choice, and agency to make contraceptive choices that meet their needs. The approach requires a thorough training in C4C techniques and the use of the Choice Book for Providers, a job aid and visual tool providers use with clients during counseling sessions. The C4C Choice Books have been translated into English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Source: PSI

Date of Publication: September 1, 2022

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NORMAL Counseling Tool
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NORMAL Counseling Tools for Menstrual Bleeding Changes

Fears and misconceptions around menstrual changes associated with some contraceptive methods often contribute to discontinuation and non-use of contraception. Although amenorrhea or reduced bleeding can have important non-contraceptive health and lifestyle advantages, these potential benefits are often not emphasized in counseling sessions. To address this gap in counseling, FHI 360 and Population Services International (PSI) co-developed the NORMAL counseling tools to guide health care workers in counseling family planning clients on bleeding changes associated with the use of hormonal contraception and the copper intrauterine device.

The suite of tools includes a facility-based tool, community-based tool, and training slides.

Source: FHI 360

Date of Publication: September 1, 2022

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Saleema Initiative

The Saleema initiative, launched in 2008 by the National Council of Child Welfare (NCCW) and UNICEF Sudan, supports the protection of girls from genital cutting, particularly in the context of efforts to promote collective abandonment of the practice at community level.

Saleema is a word that means whole, healthy in body and mind, unharmed, intact, pristine, and untouched, in a God-given condition.The broad objective of Saleema is to change the way that people talk about female genital cutting by promoting, at the community level, wide usage of new positive terminology to describe the natural bodies of girls and women.

Since the Saleema Initiative began in 2009, the ideal of keeping girls saleema has spread throughout Sudan, and also created interest in neighbouring countries such as Somalia and Egypt.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: October 19, 2021

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Integrated HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM) Response Resource Kit for Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria

This resource kit is designed to effectively equip a core team of trainers and participants with required information on aspects of integrated ATM planning, strategies,interventions and communication. This is expected to strengthen the capacity of CSOs and their members as key stakeholders in the ATM prevention, control,treatment and the reduction/elimination of morbidity and mortality deriving from the diseases. This kit comprehensively gathers different reports, researches, intellectual knowledge and practical experiences of independent consultants, civil society organizations in Nigeria. There are five modules in the kit:

  • Module 1: Overview on HIV/AIDS/ TB and Malaria
  • Module 2: Roles of CSOs
  • Module 3: Capacity Building /Enhancement
  • Module 4: Community Response
  • Module 5: The Structure of National Response and How Civil Society Fits

Source: ActionAid Nigeria

Date of Publication: October 19, 2021

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Tools for HIV Counseling for the Asia-Pacific

This package was created to meet a need to improve the quality of counseling as countries step up their drive to contain the AIDS epidemic. Prepared over two years by WHO and UNICEF with technical assistance from the Family Health International Asia-Pacific Regional Office, it is designed to equip trainers, counselors in training, and working counselors in the Asia Pacific Region with essential skills and knowledge to deliver high-quality HIV testing and counseling services in a range of approaches and settings.

The HIV counselors handbook, trainer’s session plans, participatory learning activities, and HIV counselor toolkit reflect tests being used by health care providers. The provider-initiated testing and counseling approach is based on the UNAIDS/WHO Policy Statement on HIV Testing (2004), which was drafted after numerous rounds of consultations to deal with the low uptake of Voluntary and Confidential Counseling and Testing worldwide.

Source: UNICEF, FHI, WHO

Date of Publication: October 17, 2021

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The Balanced Counseling Strategy: A Toolkit for Family Planning Service Providers

The Balanced Counseling Strategy (BCS) is a strategy designed to be interactive and client-friendly. It uses three key job aids to guide comprehensive and high-quality reproductive health and family planning counseling to clients. The BCS toolkit incorporates international family planning norms and guidance as recommended by the World Health Organization, including the 2004 Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use and the 2007 Family Planning Global Handbook. The process, tested and refined in several countries, involves a set of steps to determine the method that best suits the client according to her/his preferences and reproductive health intentions. The BCS toolkit includes: 1. An algorithm that summarizes the 11 steps needed to implement the strategy, 2. Counseling cards with basic information about 15 family planning methods, plus a card with the checklist to be reasonably sure a woman is not pregnant, and 3. Brochures on each of the methods for the client to take once a method is chosen: The pill, Emergency contraception, Female condoms, Tubal ligation, Hormonal implants, Intrauterine device, Progestin-only injectables, Monthly injectable, Spermicides, Minipill,TwoDay Method®, Vasectomy, Standard Days Method®, Male condoms, Lactational amenorrhea method

Source: Population Council

Date of Publication: October 15, 2021

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HIV and Infant Feeding Counseling Tools

These tools were created to help health workers before, during and after a counseling session so that they can better support HIV-positive mothers.

The tools consist of the following parts:

  • Counseling cards that describe the counselling process. Infant feeding counselors should use the flipchart during counseling sessions with HIV-positive pregnant women and/or mothers. The cards need local adaptation to a) identify the most acceptable/feasible feeding options from 0 to 6 months, and b) identify the most suitable foods to cover nutrient requirements from 6 to 24 months.
  • Take-home flyers that explain how to practice safer infant feeding, according to the mother’s decision. The counselor should use the relevant flyer to teach the mother, and she can then use it as a reminder at home.
  • A Reference guide that provides more technical and practical details than the counseling cards. Counselors can use it as a handbook.
  • An Orientation guide that suggests ways for health care managers to train infant feeding counselors on how to use these tools.

Source: UNICEF, WHO

Date of Publication: October 15, 2021

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