Realize: Gender Equity and Diversity for Social and Behavioral Change
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 (all day) to Friday, March 31, 2017 (half day)
Location: Washington, DC
The TOPS Program and CARE International are pleased to announce an expanded Gender Equity and Diversity for Social and Behavioral Change capacity building workshop. This highly participatory workshop includes material from the previous workshop plus additional new content. The workshop will increase your own understanding of gender equity and diversity and help you to promote lasting change with your teams and in partnership with communities.
This workshop ends at 1 pm EST on Friday, March 31.
Registration is now open. Apply to attend here.
World Vision Ebola Evaluations Health Webinar Follow up
An Exploratory Study to Examine the Effectiveness of Community Based Ebola Virus Disease Prevention and Management Strategies in Bo District Sierra Leone
The unprecedented Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa was first reported in Sierra Leone in March 2014 and rapidly spread, revealing the failures of the region’s chronically fractured and under-resourced healthcare system. By March 2016, the WHO had documented a total of 14,124 cases of Ebola, including 3,955 deaths, in Sierra Leone – more than any other country. World Vision was actively engaged in implementing preventive activities and case management in 25 of its Area Development Programs, which included 25 Chiefdoms in Bo, Bonthe, Pujehun, and Kono in Sierra Leone. Its Ebola response strategy was designed to work in close collaboration with the Government of Sierra Leone to reach a population of 1.6 million through the establishment and mobilization of an extensive network of community providers established, including teachers, paramount chiefs, and faith healers, over a twenty-year period. A review of district level EVD records indicated that not a single Ebola-related fatality was documented among the 59,000 sponsored children or family members supported by World Vision during the outbreak. Although the Ebola outbreak was successfully contained, the processes were not formally documented nor the impact of impact of World Vision’s effort was not formally documented or assessed. The remainder of this report is based on findings from a study commissioned to bridge this knowledge-to-practice gap by capturing community members’ perceptions of the effectiveness of specific strategies employed by World Vision in order to increase the evidence of what works in responding to similar outbreaks throughout the West Africa and beyond. This report is a collaboration between World Vision and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Read the Summary Report or
Protecting the Living - Honouring the Dead
The purpose of this study is to assess the barriers and enablers to community acceptance and implementation of safe burials in Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus continued to spread in Sierra Leone partly because communities were initially resistant to Burial Teams carrying out safe, medical burials. This changed towards the end of 2014 when revised burial procedures were published and renamed the Safe and Dignified Burial Protocol. Confrontations with communities decreased and more requests by communities for the Burial Teams were noted. The SMART Consortium, consisting of Catholic Relief Service (CRS), Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) and World Vision as the lead, took over the responsibility for burials in 10 districts across Sierra Leone in November 2014. The Consortium initiated this study to analyse the contribution made by the revised procedures to increased community acceptance of Safe Burials and if there were other factors at play. The results of this study are expected to be used by national and international stakeholders to better respond to future epidemics in Sierra Leone and elsewhere. Read the FULL REPORT.
Other Webinars
- 24 March – World TB Day Discussions. WHO Medical Officer, Dr. Kefas Samson, presents an overview to Childhood TB Response Strategy and World Vision Somalia will present their TB Programme overview, best practice and lessons learned.
- 4 April – Mother-Led MUAC Screening. Involving mothers in nutrition screening activities recognizes the fact that they are best placed to identify early signs of malnutrition and reinforces their role in protecting and promoting their child’s health. World Vision piloted this approach in Mauritania as part of an Emergency Nutrition and WASH program. This was the first time the approach had been used in Mauritania.
Details for these webinars can be found at: http://wvi.org/hiv-and-infectious-diseases/global-health-community-practice-webinars
