Join us for Zero-Dose Insights Live: What we learned from health workers in Bangladesh and Mali

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ZDLH Insights Live is a rapid, fast-paced discussion of what we learned from the zero-dose experiences of health workers in Bangladesh and Mali in the first ZDLH-X 1 inter-country peer learning event on 31 May 2023, organized by the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) and facilitated by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF).

We will share highlights and key learning points, and invite participating zero-dose practitioners from Bangladesh, Mali, and other countries to reflect on what they learned from the inaugural May 2023 exchange.

What is ZDLH-X and why does it matter?
The ZDLH-X 1 event held on 31 May 2023 by the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) was a breakthrough online peer learning exchange focused on sharing experiences and insights related to identifying and reaching zero-dose children and missed communities.

The event was organized by Gavi’s Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) initiative using The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)’s innovative peer learning methodologies. It brought together nearly 2000 immunization practitioners from 84 countries, with a focus on Bangladesh and Mali.

What can we learn from ZDLH-X?
It provided a unique opportunity for frontline health workers and immunization staff at sub-national levels to directly share their challenges, successes, and innovations related to addressing zero-dose issues.

Participants could contribute before, during and after the event - sharing experiences, learning from peers, and reflecting on how to apply insights in their own context.

What is different about ZDLH-X?
The interactive format encouraged direct exchanges between peers rather than passive learning, which is more impactful based on learning science. Facilitators and experts played a supporting role.

Over 600 experiences and insights were shared related to identifying hard-to-reach populations, community engagement, service delivery strategies, dealing with conflict, vaccine hesitancy and more.

84% of participants from Bangladesh and Mali said the event changed them as a professional and 69% said it helped their practice.

Key innovations that made it a breakthrough:
- Leveraging digital platforms to connect a community of practitioners across hierarchy, geographies and languages.
- Fostering peer-to-peer exchange as co-learners focused on a shared goal.
- Building on experiences before and after the live event as part of a learning continuum.
- Primarily sub-national participants sharing field innovations rarely heard at international events.
- Facilitating local networking and empowering practitioners to lead change.

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Connecting the dots: Scovia Okello’s innovative integrated approach to find and vaccinate zero-dose children in rural Uganda

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Zero-Dose Insights Live: What we learned from health workers in Bangladesh and Mali about identifying and reaching zero-dose children and underimmunized communities

Follow this link to find out how zero-dose practitioners are translating into practice the zero-dose experiences shared during the first Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) inter-country peer learning exchange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zahOIonKU

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Watch the first inter-country peer learning exchange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgQfHwRTc6U

Register for the second inter-country peer learning exchange on 13 September 2023
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rIJGUw_JR7aPZkivWIUcRA

1,000 frontline health professionals are co-creating version 2.0 of the first open-source Manifesto for global health

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Watch the Manifesto 1.0 discussion at Teach to Reach 8 on 16 June 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET4StT9vhZY

Over 1,000 frontline health professionals will meet on 15 September 2023 for an invitation-only global consultation to gather feedback on version 2.0 of the open-source Manifesto for global health.

The Manifesto summarizes key challenges and opportunities facing frontline health workers worldwide, as shared by over 1,000 contributors at TGLF’s Teach to Reach 8 conference on 16 June 2023.

Teach to Reach is the world’s largest networking event for immunization and other primary health care (PHC) professionals, with 16,384 having participated in the June event.

TGLF will host the invitation-only consultation with original Contributors in the run-up Teach to Reach 9 on October 13th. The goal is to refine the Manifesto with implementable recommendations to strengthen health systems globally.

“Frontline health workers shared invaluable insights that shaped the first major update of the Manifesto,” said TGLF’s Charlotte Mbuh. “Now, we are inviting those same leaders to review version 2.0 and help develop concrete next steps before we open it up to the broader global health community in October.”

The Open-Source Manifesto covers major themes like health systems, knowledge sharing, digital technology, and trust-building between health workers and the communities they serve.

It synthesizes diverse frontline perspectives from over 100 countries into a snapshot of opportunities and challenges facing global health systems today.

Mbuh adds: “This Manifesto represents the collective voice of thousands of health workers worldwide.”

The consultation takes place on Friday, September 15th at 1pm Geneva time. The finalized Manifesto will be presented at Teach to Reach 9, open to all health professionals worldwide.

Learn more about the Manifesto for global health 1.0
https://redasadki.me/2023/06/09/why-an-open-source-manifesto-for-global-health/

Watch the Manifesto 1.0 discussion at Teach to Reach 8 on 16 June 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET4StT9vhZY

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View and download all experiences shared at Teach to Reach 8
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8074794

What do microplanning and integration have to do with reaching zero-dose children?

More than 2,200 zero-dose practitioners from 90 countries are registered to attend today’s 2nd Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) inter-country peer learning exchange.

Follow any of these links to learn more & register today

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Did you miss it? We are restreaming the 2nd Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) inter-country peer learning exchange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYtqRbez-U

Teach to Reach: Connect 9 Sneak preview
You are invited to the Teach to Reach 9 sneak preview & exclusive announcement today.

Follow this link to view the Teach to Reach 9 Sneak Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR5IQV_hGtk

We will reveal the key themes and partners, and invite you to share how Teach to Reach has been useful to your health service.

Let your colleagues know about Teach to Reach 9 by sharing the announcement on WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Global health transformation: 1,200+ local health leaders from 90 nations forging Manifesto

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Transformation of global health: A new Manifesto is being developed by more than 1,200 community-based health leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Join the consultation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejtoYOCZBY

This consultation, held on 15 September 2023, was held with 390 health leaders to discuss a new Manifesto for global health developed by more than 1,200 community-based health leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

No matter how brave or bold, no vision or strategy can or should be developed as a pronouncement by a single organization of how things should be.

On 15 September 2023, 390 health leaders, primarily from districts and facilities in over 80 countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, came together to review and discuss the draft version 2.0 of a new Manifesto for Global Health being developed ahead of Teach to Reach 9.

No international consultants, global health agencies, or donors were present. Most of the participants work for their country's Ministry of Health (MoH).

Watch this session to learn more about the Manifesto and, if you work for the health of your community and country, how you too can become a Contributor.

The new version of the Manifesto 2.0 will be presented at Teach to Reach: Connect 9, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals. Ahead of the event on 13 October 2023, Teach to Reach participants are invited to contribute.

Request your invitation: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

On June 7th, 2023, The Double Loop published version 1.0 of An open-source manifesto for global health and called for Leaders of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to contribute their insights to develop a community-owned version 2.0. The response has been overwhelming, with over 1,200 health professionals contributing their insights in response to questions such as:
* How has your work been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?
* How have digital technologies become embedded in your daily work?
* How has sharing experience with colleagues helped you in your daily work?
* What will help you to build and maintain trust with the communities that you serve?
* Why do you work for health?
* How do you envision the future of health work

Learn more: Why an open-source manifesto for global health?
https://redasadki.me/2023/06/09/why-an-open-source-manifesto-for-global-health/

Watch the Manifesto 1.0 discussion at Teach to Reach 8 on 16 June 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET4StT9vhZY

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The new version of the Manifesto expresses the collective experience of thousands of contributors on issues that include:
* Who are we and where do we work?
* What motivates us to work in global health?
* Knowledge and learning
* Trust and transparency
* Digital technologies
* Partnership and coordination

View and download all experiences shared at Teach to Reach 8
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8074794

This Manifesto is an open-source draft because, in today’s complex world, we tackle challenges that no one country or organization can possibly overcome alone.

For such a manifesto to be meaningful requires the participation, and contribution of those on the frontlines of global health, in dialogue with global, regional, and country leaders.

#DecolonizeGlobalHealth #LocalAction #GlobalHealth #HRH #CommunityLedAction #CommunityHealthWorkers #Leadership

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What’s new at Teach to Reach 9?
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How does being connected to peers from all over the world make a difference?

Learn from Maryam Idris, Community Health Worker in Zango Ward, Kano State, Nigeria in this month’s The Double Loop.

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Maryam describes how she first heard of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s peer learning programmes through a visiting colleague from The Gambia, and how she has used what she has learned through the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to improve immunization in Zango Ward.

This is the fifth in a series of cases following exceptional Movement for IA2030 leaders: including Wasnam Faye(Senegal), Franck Monga (Democratic Republic of Congo), María Monzón (Argentina), and Kingsley Nignere (Ghana).

Learn more about The Double Loop, the Geneva Learning Foundation’s global health insights newsletter https://www.learning.foundation/loop

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Zero-Dose Insights Live 2: Early learning from health workers in Nigeria and Uganda

Follow this link to watch Insights Live 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fivlpEm1uY

ZDLH Insights Live is a rapid, fast-paced discussion of what we learned from the zero-dose experiences of Nigeria and Uganda in the second ZDLH-X inter-country peer learning event on 13 September 2023, organized by the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) and facilitated by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF).

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Teach to Reach 9: Get ready to learn about measles outbreaks, HPV vaccination, climate change, and neglected needs of women’s health

Follow this link to learn more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGh71Sfr5M8

On Friday, with seven days to go until Teach to Reach 9 on October 13, 2023, meet health leaders who will be at Teach to Reach and discover what we are learning ahead of the event, on questions such as:
- How to respond to measles outbreaks?
- How to successfully vaccinate against HPV (human papillomavirus)?
- How to identify and reach zero-dose children in urban and peri-urban areas (with UNICEF)

“Learning happens best when people seek answers to their specific daily challenges. Teach to Reach is proof that immunization professionals are hungry to learn, and hungry to share.” – Dr Kate O’Brien (WHO) and Ephrem T Lemango (UNICEF)

This edition of Teach to Reach isn’t just about vaccination. Find out how health professionals:
- dealing with the health effects of climate change in local communities
- take action against Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), a neglected tropical disease that affects around 56 million women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Uniquely, the Geneva Learning Foundation’s platform and its Teach to Reach events provide a way to link [health professionals] together, so that they can share experiences about what works and equally important, what doesn’t work, while learning from each other.” – Ephrem T Lemango, Associate Director of Immunization, UNICEF

For health professionals, Teach to Reach offers a unique opportunity to:
1. Share experience with colleagues from all over the world
2. Get help with your toughest challenge
3. Get fresh ideas to help you succeed

Since January 2021, successive editions of Teach to Reach have connected 64,705 participants in one-to-one networking sessions and group sessions to share experience.

“While we can provide tools and guidance, we need to do more to empower immunization professionals to identify and solve their own problems, wherever they are working, and whatever those problems are.” – Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of the Department for Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO)

We are pleased to invite you to an exceptional plenary session on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that affects 56 million women and girls in Africa.

This session will take place as part of Teach to Reach 9, the world’s largest networking event for healthcare professionals.

When will it take place? Friday, October 13, 2023 at 12 noon Geneva time

Where? Online, request your invitation by following this link https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

During this session, you will discover the experience of Scholars from all over the world.

Scholars are practitioners committed to learning through experience sharing and action.

Together, since 2021, they have been taking action in their communities to fight FGS.

In May and June 2021, over 300 healthcare professionals from sub-Saharan Africa took part in the FAST Package workshop on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) organized by Bridges to Development in partnership with The Geneva Learning Foundation.

In May 2023, over 700 practitioners joined a second Francophone cohort, organized in partnership with Bridges to Development and The End Fund.

Working together, these professionals developed 256 feasible plans for local solutions to combat BGF in their context.

This session will close a full day of networked learning at Teach to Reach 9, the world’s largest networking event for immunization and other healthcare professionals.

By attending Teach to Reach 9, you’ll join an international community of over 6,800 healthcare professionals who are standing together to address the neglected needs of women’s health.

They are part of a larger global community of more than 50,000 community-based health workers in over 80 countries.

If you have colleagues who share your interest and concerns, we encourage you to invite them to this Teach to Reach 9 session.

Climate change and health on the agenda at Teach to Reach 9

The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to invite you to a special plenary session at Teach to Reach 9 on the effects of climate change on local communities, as seen by health professionals.

This session will take place as part of Teach to Reach 9, the world’s largest networking event for healthcare professionals.

When? Friday, October 13, 2023 at 5 p.m., Geneva time
Where? Request your invitation by following this link https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Are you concerned about the effects of climate change on the health of the population you serve?

Join this plenary session to learn with fellow health professionals from all over the world.

Experience sharing will focus on three questions:

1. Do you think climate change threatens the health of the community you serve?

2. What support do you and the community needs to adapt and change in responses to this thread?

3. What are the effects of climate change on mental health?