eToolkit for Program Managers

This Toolkit is for policy makers, program managers, service providers, advocates, and others. It provides links to guidelines, research, curricula, communication materials, job aids, case studies, and other tools to plan, manage, deliver, evaluate, and support Health, Population and Nutrition services.

The Bangladesh BCC Working Group, with technical support from BKMI, developed this toolkit, and vetted the resources for inclusion.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Understanding and Challenging TB Stigma Toolkit

This toolkit was developed in response to the need to address TB stigma especially where TB and HIV co-infection rates are high. It involves participatory workshops with health-workers, people living with HIV, and ex-TB patients. It was written by and for trainers and can help trainers plan and organise participatory educational sessions with community leaders or organized groups to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV and TB stigma and discrimination. It has been designed as a stand alone tool but can be used with the Alliance toolkit, ‘Understanding and challenging HIV Stigma.” The publication contains a range of participatory games, exercises and picture tools to help address TB stigma, suitable for a range of contexts and settings.

Source: Zambart Project (Zambia AIDS-related Tuberculosis project) , STAMMP (Strengthening TB, AIDS and malaria prevention programmes)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Understanding and Challenging Stigma Towards Men Who Have Sex With Men: Toolkit for Action

The toolkit is a collection of educational exercises to help explore, understand, and challenge stigma and discrimination toward men who have sex with men (MSM). It was created for workers in Cambodia and is for individuals and organizations that are working to stop stigma and discrimination toward MSM. THe activities are designed for participatory learning and can be used in various setting, e.g., workshops for health workers, and for MSM. The activities cover issues such as stigma, gender identity, and risk factors.

Source: Pact Inc., International Center for Research on Women

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Malaria in Pregnancy Resource Package

This resource package provides tools including training resources, programming resources, and reference materials to help implement programs that will reduce malaria in pregnancy and provide effective treatment for pregnant women with malaria. It includes job aids for clinical trainers and health care providers to help them provide correct information for clients and their families about malaria in pregnancy. The Package is aimed at policymakers, public health professionals, and managers. The Focused Antenatal Care job aid provides an overview of what providers should do at each of four scheduled antenatal care visits, and information to help the client as she prepares for the birth. The Malaria during Pregnancy job aid includes important facts about malaria, and preventing malaria in pregnancy through intermittent preventive treatment and insecticide-treated nets. Also included in the package are examples of job aids from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania.

Source: JHPIEGO

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Safari ya Mafanikio (Journey of Success) Resource Kit

These tools guide group discussions and other interactive activities in communities, providing opportunities for interpersonal communication and community dialogue.The Safari ya Mafanikio CRK’s unique and highly participatory methodology applies the principles of effective learning, engaging participants through interactive storytelling, drama, games, metaphors, personal risk assessments, and other innovative activities that inspire solution-seeking behaviors and shift mental models around deeply held cultural values. Activities do not just inform the audience what they should or should not do, but also enable a motivating connection with why they should or should not do it, in a manner effective for literate and non-literate audiences.

The kit contains twelve modules covering a range of topics identified as priorities by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Grounded in an introductory module in which participants create their vision for a healthy future, health modules include HIV prevention; HIV testing and counseling; voluntary medical male circumcision; HIV treatment, adherence, and support; tuberculosis; maternal, newborn, and child health; elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; family planning; most vulnerable children; malaria prevention; and malaria treatment and prevention during pregnancy.

Rather than creating separate kits for each topic, the CRK addresses all of them together in one comprehensive and versatile resource. The attached file includes the Trainers Manual, the English and Swahili versions of the kit, and campaign messages.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019