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Many health leaders are highly analytical, adaptive learners who thrive on solving complex problems in dynamic, real-world contexts.
Their expertise is grounded in years of field experience, where they have honed their ability to rapidly generate insights, test ideas, and innovate solutions in collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
In January 2021, as countries were beginning to introduce new COVID-19 vaccines, Kate O’Brien, who leads WHO’s immunization efforts, connected global learning to local action:
“For COVID-19 vaccines […] there are just too many lessons that are being learned, especially according to different vaccine platforms, different communities of prioritization that need to be vaccinated. So [everyone] has got to be able to scale, has got to be able to deal with complexity, has got to be able to do personal, local innovation to actually overcome the challenges.”
https://youtube.com/live/uvv-g0lXy4c
In an Insights Live session with the Geneva Learning Foundation in 2022, she made a compelling case that “the people who are working in the program at that most local level have to be able to adapt, to be agile, to innovate things that will work in that particular setting, with those leaders in the community, with those families.”
https://youtube.com/live/nCB20y49hBI
However, unlike Kate O’Brien, some senior leaders in global health disconnect their own learning practices and their assumptions about how others learn best.
When it comes to designing learning initiatives for their teams or organizations, these leaders may default to a more simplistic, behaviorist approach.
They may equate learning with the acquisition and application of specific skills or knowledge, and thus focus on creating structured, content-driven training programs.
The appeal of behaviorist platforms – with their promise of efficient, scalable delivery and easily measured outcomes – can be seductive in the resource-constrained, results-driven world of global health.
Furthermore, leaders may hold assumptions that health workers – especially those at the community level – do not require higher-order critical thinking skills, that they simply need a predetermined set of knowledge and procedures.
This view is fundamentally misguided.
A robust body of scientific evidence on learning culture and performance demonstrates that the most effective organizations are those that foster continuous learning, critical reflection, and adaptive problem-solving at all levels.
Health workers at the frontlines face complex, unpredictable challenges that demand situational judgment, creative thinking, and the ability to learn from experience.
Failing to cultivate these capacities not only underestimates the potential of these health workers, but it also constrains the performance and resilience of health systems as a whole.
The problem is that this approach fails to cultivate the very qualities that make these leaders effective learners and problem-solvers.
Behaviorist techniques, with their emphasis on passive information absorption and narrow, pre-defined outcomes, do not foster the critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative capacity needed to tackle complex health challenges.
They may produce short-term gains in narrow domains, but they cannot develop the adaptive expertise required for long-term impact in ever-shifting contexts.
To help health leaders recognize this disconnect, it is useful to engage them in reflective dialogue about their own learning processes.
By unpacking real-world examples of how they have solved thorny problems or generated novel insights, we can highlight the sophisticated cognitive strategies and collaborative dynamics at play.
We can show how they constantly question assumptions, synthesize diverse perspectives, and iterate solutions – all skills that are essential for navigating complexity, but are poorly served by rigid, content-focused training.
The goal is not to dismiss the need for foundational knowledge or skills, but rather to emphasize that in the face of evolving challenges, adaptive learning capacity is the real differentiator.
It is the ability to think critically, to imagine new possibilities, to learn from failure, and to co-create with others that drives meaningful change.
By tying this insight directly to leaders’ own experiences and values, we can inspire them to champion learning approaches that mirror the richness and dynamism of their personal growth journeys.
Ultimately, the most impactful health organizations will be those that not only equip people with essential skills, but that also nurture the underlying cognitive and collaborative capacities needed to continually learn, adapt, and innovate.
By recognizing and leveraging the powerful learning practices they themselves embody, health leaders can shape organizational cultures and strategies that truly empower people to navigate complexity and drive transformative change.
This shift requires letting go of the illusion of control and predictability that behaviorism offers, and instead embracing the messiness and uncertainty of real learning.
It means creating space for experimentation, reflection, and dialogue, and trusting in people’s inherent capacity to grow and create.
It is a challenging transition, but one that health leaders are uniquely positioned to lead – if they can bridge the gap between how they learn and how they seek to enable others’ learning.
Image: The Geneva Learning Foundation Collection © 2024
#adaptiveLearning #coCreation #criticalThinking #healthLearning #immunization #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #KateOBrien #leadership #learningCulture #learningStrategy #peerLearning
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This is the preface of the new publication The many faces of immunization. Learn more… Download the collection…
Every day, thousands of health workers, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, get up and go to work with a single goal in mind to ensure that vaccines reach those who need them.
To mark World Immunization Week 2023 (24–30 April 2023) and the launch of the “Big Catch Up” campaign, the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) invited members of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to share photographs of themselves and their daily work.
More than 1,000 visual stories were shared.
These are not the carefully composed and technically accomplished shots of the professional photographer: rather, they capture a raw and authentic view of what immunization means in practice.
The transport challenges.
The concerned and loving mothers.
The curious onlookers.
The dialogue between practitioners and community members.
The schoolchildren waving their vaccination cards.
The reams of paper-based data.
This is our second annual gallery of photographs shared by members of the Movement. Get the 2022 World Immunization Week photo book It takes people to make #vaccineswork…
Once again, it celebrates their diversity of roles and challenges faced in their daily lives, and their commitment to the IA2030 goal of ensuring that every child, every family, is protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
If we did it again, it is because we observed that visual storytelling had a profound effect across the Movement.
This effect may be hard to quantify.
On its own, it certainly does not improve vaccination coverage.
And yet, it has everything to do with how health workers perceive themselves, perceive the value of their own work.
Not just knowing but seeing that there are colleagues across the world who are doing the same work, whatever the contexts, is heartening and inspiring.
It can help strengthen or renew resolve and commitment.
It can help make a difference – and sustain it over time.
To achieve their goals, they may be working in health facilities offering immunization services and other forms of primary health care.
Or they may be taking part in outreach or stratégies avancées, delivering vaccines out in the communities where people live.
Alternatively, they may be based in district or regional offices, providing oversight and offering “supportive supervision” constructive feedback and advice to ensure practitioners can do their jobs better.
If they are among the many practitioners engaged in outreach activities, they may face multiple challenges.
They may have to overcome geographical obstacles rivers, flooding, poor roads, or just long distances.
They may have to venture into areas of political instability or conflict.
They may have to make contact with mobile populations whose precise location may be uncertain.
And they may have to enter informal urban settings in a state of permanent flux.
Then, when they reach their destination, they may find that those they engage are not receptive to vaccination.
They may have to spend time with people to help them understand the benefits and safety of vaccines.
Of course, actually vaccinating people is not the only task that needs to be undertaken.
Vaccination programmes rely on a collective of people with a diverse range of roles, such as maintaining essential cold chain equipment, managing data, and working with communities to build support for vaccination.
Community-based volunteers provide a vital link between immunization programmes and local communities.
Effective teamwork is essential.
At the end of a long day, every vaccination practitioner can return home knowing that they have done their bit to make the world a healthier place, and just might have saved a life.
Charlotte Mbuh and Reda Sadki
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)Jones, I., Sadki, R., & Mbuh, C. (2024). The many faces of immunization (IA2030 Listening and Learning Report 5) (1.0). Special Event: World Immunization Week. The Geneva Learning Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8166653
https://redasadki.me/2024/04/17/world-immunization-week-what-do-you-see/
#ChrisDeBode #IA2030 #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #TheGenevaLearningFoundation #VaccinesWork #visualStorytelling #WorldImmunizationWeek
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This is the preface of the new publication The many faces of immunization. Learn more… Download the collection…
Every day, thousands of health workers, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, get up and go to work with a single goal in mind to ensure that vaccines reach those who need them.
To mark World Immunization Week 2023 (24–30 April 2023) and the launch of the “Big Catch Up” campaign, the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) invited members of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to share photographs of themselves and their daily work.
More than 1,000 visual stories were shared.
These are not the carefully composed and technically accomplished shots of the professional photographer: rather, they capture a raw and authentic view of what immunization means in practice.
The transport challenges.
The concerned and loving mothers.
The curious onlookers.
The dialogue between practitioners and community members.
The schoolchildren waving their vaccination cards.
The reams of paper-based data.
This is our second annual gallery of photographs shared by members of the Movement. Get the 2022 World Immunization Week photo book It takes people to make #vaccineswork…
Once again, it celebrates their diversity of roles and challenges faced in their daily lives, and their commitment to the IA2030 goal of ensuring that every child, every family, is protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
If we did it again, it is because we observed that visual storytelling had a profound effect across the Movement.
This effect may be hard to quantify.
On its own, it certainly does not improve vaccination coverage.
And yet, it has everything to do with how health workers perceive themselves, perceive the value of their own work.
Not just knowing but seeing that there are colleagues across the world who are doing the same work, whatever the contexts, is heartening and inspiring.
It can help strengthen or renew resolve and commitment.
It can help make a difference – and sustain it over time.
To achieve their goals, they may be working in health facilities offering immunization services and other forms of primary health care.
Or they may be taking part in outreach or stratégies avancées, delivering vaccines out in the communities where people live.
Alternatively, they may be based in district or regional offices, providing oversight and offering “supportive supervision” constructive feedback and advice to ensure practitioners can do their jobs better.
If they are among the many practitioners engaged in outreach activities, they may face multiple challenges.
They may have to overcome geographical obstacles rivers, flooding, poor roads, or just long distances.
They may have to venture into areas of political instability or conflict.
They may have to make contact with mobile populations whose precise location may be uncertain.
And they may have to enter informal urban settings in a state of permanent flux.
Then, when they reach their destination, they may find that those they engage are not receptive to vaccination.
They may have to spend time with people to help them understand the benefits and safety of vaccines.
Of course, actually vaccinating people is not the only task that needs to be undertaken.
Vaccination programmes rely on a collective of people with a diverse range of roles, such as maintaining essential cold chain equipment, managing data, and working with communities to build support for vaccination.
Community-based volunteers provide a vital link between immunization programmes and local communities.
Effective teamwork is essential.
At the end of a long day, every vaccination practitioner can return home knowing that they have done their bit to make the world a healthier place, and just might have saved a life.
Charlotte Mbuh and Reda Sadki
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)Jones, I., Sadki, R., & Mbuh, C. (2024). The many faces of immunization (IA2030 Listening and Learning Report 5) (1.0). Special Event: World Immunization Week. The Geneva Learning Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8166653
https://redasadki.me/2024/04/17/world-immunization-week-what-do-you-see/
#ChrisDeBode #IA2030 #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #TheGenevaLearningFoundation #VaccinesWork #visualStorytelling #WorldImmunizationWeek
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WHO’s 154th Executive Board meeting provided a sobering picture of how the COVID-19 pandemic reversed decades of progress in expanding global immunization coverage and controlling vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Over 3 million more zero-dose children in 2022 compared to 2019 and widening inequities between and within countries.
- Africa in particular suffered a 25% increase in children missing out on basic vaccines.
- Coverage disparities grew between the best- and worst-performing districts in the same countries that previously made gains.
In response, the World Health Organization is calling for action “grounded in local realities”.
Growing evidence supports fresh approaches that do exactly that.
Tom Newton-Lewis is part of a growing community of researchers and practitioners who have observed that “health systems are complex and adaptive” and, they say, that explains why top-down control rarely succeeds.
- The claim is that directive performance management—relying on targets, monitoring, incentives and hierarchical control—is largely ineffective at driving outcomes in low- and middle-income country health systems.
- By contrast, enabling approaches aim to leverage intrinsic motivation, foster collective responsibility, and empower teams for improvement.
However, top-down control and directive management appear to have been key to how immunization programmes achieved impressive results in previous decades.
Hence, it may be challenging for the current generation of global immunization leaders to consider that enabling approaches that leverage intrinsic motivation, foster collective responsibility, and empower teams – especially for local staff – are the ones needed now.
One example of an enabling approach is the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).
This is a locally-led network, platform, and community of action that emerged in March 2022 in response to the Director-General’s call for a “groundswell of support” for immunization.
In Year 1 (report), this Movement demonstrated the feasibility of establishing a large-scale peer learning platform for immunization professionals, aligned with global IA2030 goals. Specifically:
- Over 6,000 practitioners from 99 countries joined initial activities, with 1,021 implementing peer-reviewed local action plans by June 2022.
- These participants generated over half a million quantitative and qualitative data points shedding light on local realities.
- Regular peer learning events known as Teach to Reach rallied tens of thousands of national and sub-national immunization staff, defying boundaries of geography, hierarchy, gender, and job roles in collaborative sessions with each other, but also with IA2030 Working Groups.
By September 2022, over 10,000 professionals had joined the Movement, turning their commitment to achieving IA2030 into context-specific actions, sharing progress and results to encourage and support each other.
In Year 2, further evidence emerged on participant demand and public health impacts:
- By June 2023, the network expanded to 16,835 members across over 100 countries.
- Some participants directly attributed coverage increases to the Movement (see Wasnam Faye’s story and other examples), with many sharing a strong sense of IA2030 ownership.
Overall, the Movement has already demonstrated a scalable model facilitating peer exchange between thousands of motivated immunization professionals during its first two years.
- Locally-developed solutions are proving indispensable to practitioners, to make sense of generalized guidance from the global level.
- Movement research confirmed that “progress more likely comes from the systematic application and adaptation of existing good practice, tailored to local contexts and communities.”
- Connecting local innovation to global knowledge could be “instrumental for resuscitating progress” towards more equitable immunization, especially when integrated into coordinated action across health system levels.
- It could be part of a teachable moment in which global partners learn from local action, rather than prescribe it.
The Movement has already been making sparks. It will take the fuel of global partners to propel it to accelerate progress in new ways that could meet or exceed IA2030 goals.
#IA2030 #immunization #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #peerLearning #TheBigCatchUp #WorldHealthOrganization
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The WHO Director General’s report to the 154th session of the Executive Board on progress towards the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) goals paints a “sobering picture” of uneven global recovery since COVID-19.
As of 2022, 3 out of 7 main impact indicators remain “off-track”, including numbers of zero-dose children, future deaths averted through vaccination, and outbreak control targets.
Current evidence indicates substantial acceleration is essential in order to shift indicators out of the “off-track” categories over the next 7 years.
While some indicators showed recovery from pandemic backsliding, the report makes clear these improvements are generally insufficient to achieve targets set for 2030.
While some indicators have improved from 2021, overall performance still “lags 2019 levels” (para 5).
Specifically, global coverage of three childhood DTP vaccine doses rose from 81% in 2021 to 84% in 2022, but remains below the 86% rate achieved in 2019 before the pandemic (para 5).
The number of zero-dose children fell from 18.1 million in 2021 to 14.3 million in 2022. However, this number is still 11% higher compared to baseline year 2019, when there were 12.9 million zero-dose children (para 10).
Furthermore, the report stresses that recovery has been “very uneven” (para 6), with minimal gains observed in low-income countries:
“As a group, there was no increase in DTP3 coverage across 26 low-income countries between 2021 and 2022.” (para 6)
Regions are also recovering unevenly, especially Africa.
“In the African Region, the number of zero-dose children increased from 7.64 million in 2021 to 7.78 million in 2022 − a 25% increase since baseline year 2019.” (para 6)
Inequities within countries also continue expanding, with gaps widening “between the best-performing and worst-performing districts” since 2019 (para 6).
The top priorities (para 34) include:
1) “Catch-up and strengthening” immunization activities
2) “Promoting equity” to reach underserved communities
3) “Regaining control of measles” with intensified responses
4) Advocacy for “increased investment in immunization, integrated into primary health care”
5) “Accelerating new vaccine introduction” in alignment with WHO recommendations
6) “Advancing vaccination in adolescence” such as HPV vaccine introductionThe report stresses that “coordinated action” on these priorities can get countries back on track towards IA2030 targets in the wake of COVID-19 disruptions (para 27). This action must be “grounded in local realities” (para 32) to reach underserved areas thus far left behind.
Given this context, this document asks: “What actions can global partners take to support countries to accelerate progress in the six priority areas highlighted?” (para 37).
In response, WHO contends that “the operational model under IA2030 must continue shifting focus to the regional level, to facilitate coordinated and tailored support to countries.”
It is unclear how devolution to the regional level could truly respond to highly localized barriers and enablers.
Such a claim may best be understood with respect to the internal equilibrium between WHO’s Headquarters (HQ) and the Regional Offices, with IA2030 being initially driven by HQ.
What other changes might be needed? And what are the barriers that might hinder global immunization partners from recognizing and supporting such changes?
Reference: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 2023. Progress towards global immunization goals and implementation of the Immunization Agenda 2030. Report by the Director-General, Executive Board 154th session Provisional agenda item 9. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
https://redasadki.me/2024/02/05/widening-inequities-immunization-agenda-2030-remains-off-track/
#COVID19 #equity #IA2030 #immunization #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus #WorldHealthOrganization #zeroDose
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The Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) and the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 represent two interconnected but distinct aspects of a global effort to enhance immunization coverage and impact.
What is Immunization Agenda 2030?
Immunization Agenda 2030 or “IA2030” is a global strategy endorsed by the World Health Assembly, aiming to maximize the lifesaving impact of vaccines over the decade from 2021 to 2030.
- It sets an ambitious vision for a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines for good health and well-being.
- The strategy was designed before the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of saving 50 million lives through increased vaccine coverage and addresses several strategic priorities, including making immunization services accessible as part of primary care, ensuring everyone is protected by immunization regardless of location or socioeconomic status, and preparing for disease outbreaks.
- IA2030 emphasizes country ownership, broad partnerships, and data-driven approaches. It seeks to integrate immunization with other essential health services, ensuring a reliable supply of vaccines and promoting innovation in immunization programs.
Watch the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) inaugural lecture by Anne Lindstrand (WHO) and Robin Nandy (UNICEF)
What is the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030?
The Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030, on the other hand, is a collaborative, community-driven effort to operationalize the goals of IA2030 at the local, national, and global levels.
It emerged in response to the Director-General’s call for a “groundswell of support” for immunization and combines a network, platform, and community of action.
The Movement focuses on turning the commitment to IA2030 into locally-led, context-specific actions, encouraging peer exchange, and sharing progress and results to foster a sense of ownership among immunization practitioners and the communities they serve. It has:
- has demonstrated a scalable model for facilitating peer exchange among thousands of motivated immunization practitioners.
- emphasizes locally-developed solutions, connecting local innovation to global knowledge, and is instrumental in resuscitating progress towards more equitable immunization coverage.
- operates as a platform for learning, sharing, and collaboration, aiming to ground action in local realities to reach the unreached and accelerate progress towards the IA2030 goals.
In April 2021, over 5,000 immunization professionals came together during World Immunization Week to listen and learn from challenges faced by immunization colleagues from all over the world. Watch the Special Event to hear practitioners from all over the world share the challenges they face. Learn more…
What is the difference between the Agenda for IA2030 and the Movement for IA2030?
- Scope and Nature: IA2030 is a strategic framework with a global vision for immunization over the decade, while the Movement for IA2030 is a dynamic, community-driven effort to implement that vision through local action and global collaboration.
- Operational Focus: IA2030 outlines the strategic priorities and goals for immunization efforts by global funders and agencies, whereas the Movement focuses on mobilizing support, facilitating peer learning, and sharing innovative practices to achieve those goals.
- Engagement and Collaboration: While IA2030 is a product of global consensus and sets the agenda for immunization, the Movement actively engages immunization professionals, stakeholders, and communities in a bottom-up approach to foster ownership and tailor strategies to local contexts.
What is the role of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)?
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) plays a pivotal role in facilitating the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030). A Swiss non-profit organization with the mission to research and develop new ways to learn and lead, TGLF is instrumental in implementing large-scale, collaborative efforts to support the goals of IA2030. Here are the key roles TGLF fulfills within the Movement:
- Facilitation and leadership: TGLF leads the facilitation of the Movement for IA2030, providing a platform for immunization professionals to collaborate, share knowledge, and drive action towards the IA2030 goals.
- Learning-to-action approach: TGLF contributes to transforming technical assistance (TA) to strengthen immunization programs. This involves challenging traditional power dynamics and empowering immunization professionals to apply local knowledge to solve problems, support peers in doing the same, and contribute to global knowledge.
- Peer learning scaffolding and facilitation: TGLF has demonstrated the feasibility of establishing a global peer learning platform for immunization practitioners. This platform enables health professionals to contribute knowledge, share experiences, and learn from each other, thereby fostering a community of practice that spans across borders.
- Advocacy and mobilization: TGLF calls on immunization professionals to join the Movement for IA2030, aiming to mobilize a global community to share experiences and work collaboratively towards the IA2030 objectives. This includes engaging over 60,000 immunization professionals from 99 countries.
- Governance, code of conduct, and ethical standards: Participants in TGLF’s programs are required to adhere to a strict Code of Conduct that emphasizes integrity, honesty, and the highest ethical, scientific, and intellectual standards. This includes accurate attribution of sources and appropriate collection and use of data. Movement Members are also expected respect and abide by any restrictions, requirements, and regulations of their employer and government.
- Research and evaluation: TGLF may facilitate the connections between peers, for example to help them give and receive feedback on their local projects and other knowledge produced by learners. Insights and evidence from local action may also contribute in communication, advocacy, and training efforts. TGLF also invites learners to participate in research and evaluation to further the understanding of effective learning and performance management approaches for frontline health workers.
https://redasadki.me/2022/06/20/what-is-the-movement-for-immunization-agenda-2030-ia2030/
#AnnLindstrand #IA2030 #immunization #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #MovementForImmunizationAgenda2030 #peerLearning #RobinNandy #TheGenevaLearningFoundation
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The Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) and the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 represent two interconnected but distinct aspects of a global effort to enhance immunization coverage and impact.
What is Immunization Agenda 2030?
Immunization Agenda 2030 or “IA2030” is a global strategy endorsed by the World Health Assembly, aiming to maximize the lifesaving impact of vaccines over the decade from 2021 to 2030.
- It sets an ambitious vision for a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines for good health and well-being.
- The strategy was designed before the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of saving 50 million lives through increased vaccine coverage and addresses several strategic priorities, including making immunization services accessible as part of primary care, ensuring everyone is protected by immunization regardless of location or socioeconomic status, and preparing for disease outbreaks.
- IA2030 emphasizes country ownership, broad partnerships, and data-driven approaches. It seeks to integrate immunization with other essential health services, ensuring a reliable supply of vaccines and promoting innovation in immunization programs.
Watch the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) inaugural lecture by Anne Lindstrand (WHO) and Robin Nandy (UNICEF)
What is the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030?
The Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030, on the other hand, is a collaborative, community-driven effort to operationalize the goals of IA2030 at the local, national, and global levels.
It emerged in response to the Director-General’s call for a “groundswell of support” for immunization and combines a network, platform, and community of action.
The Movement focuses on turning the commitment to IA2030 into locally-led, context-specific actions, encouraging peer exchange, and sharing progress and results to foster a sense of ownership among immunization practitioners and the communities they serve. It has:
- has demonstrated a scalable model for facilitating peer exchange among thousands of motivated immunization practitioners.
- emphasizes locally-developed solutions, connecting local innovation to global knowledge, and is instrumental in resuscitating progress towards more equitable immunization coverage.
- operates as a platform for learning, sharing, and collaboration, aiming to ground action in local realities to reach the unreached and accelerate progress towards the IA2030 goals.
In April 2021, over 5,000 immunization professionals came together during World Immunization Week to listen and learn from challenges faced by immunization colleagues from all over the world. Watch the Special Event to hear practitioners from all over the world share the challenges they face. Learn more…
What is the difference between the Agenda for IA2030 and the Movement for IA2030?
- Scope and Nature: IA2030 is a strategic framework with a global vision for immunization over the decade, while the Movement for IA2030 is a dynamic, community-driven effort to implement that vision through local action and global collaboration.
- Operational Focus: IA2030 outlines the strategic priorities and goals for immunization efforts by global funders and agencies, whereas the Movement focuses on mobilizing support, facilitating peer learning, and sharing innovative practices to achieve those goals.
- Engagement and Collaboration: While IA2030 is a product of global consensus and sets the agenda for immunization, the Movement actively engages immunization professionals, stakeholders, and communities in a bottom-up approach to foster ownership and tailor strategies to local contexts.
What is the role of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)?
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) plays a pivotal role in facilitating the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030). A Swiss non-profit organization with the mission to research and develop new ways to learn and lead, TGLF is instrumental in implementing large-scale, collaborative efforts to support the goals of IA2030. Here are the key roles TGLF fulfills within the Movement:
- Facilitation and leadership: TGLF leads the facilitation of the Movement for IA2030, providing a platform for immunization professionals to collaborate, share knowledge, and drive action towards the IA2030 goals.
- Learning-to-action approach: TGLF contributes to transforming technical assistance (TA) to strengthen immunization programs. This involves challenging traditional power dynamics and empowering immunization professionals to apply local knowledge to solve problems, support peers in doing the same, and contribute to global knowledge.
- Peer learning scaffolding and facilitation: TGLF has demonstrated the feasibility of establishing a global peer learning platform for immunization practitioners. This platform enables health professionals to contribute knowledge, share experiences, and learn from each other, thereby fostering a community of practice that spans across borders.
- Advocacy and mobilization: TGLF calls on immunization professionals to join the Movement for IA2030, aiming to mobilize a global community to share experiences and work collaboratively towards the IA2030 objectives. This includes engaging over 60,000 immunization professionals from 99 countries.
- Governance, code of conduct, and ethical standards: Participants in TGLF’s programs are required to adhere to a strict Code of Conduct that emphasizes integrity, honesty, and the highest ethical, scientific, and intellectual standards. This includes accurate attribution of sources and appropriate collection and use of data. Movement Members are also expected respect and abide by any restrictions, requirements, and regulations of their employer and government.
- Research and evaluation: TGLF may facilitate the connections between peers, for example to help them give and receive feedback on their local projects and other knowledge produced by learners. Insights and evidence from local action may also contribute in communication, advocacy, and training efforts. TGLF also invites learners to participate in research and evaluation to further the understanding of effective learning and performance management approaches for frontline health workers.
https://redasadki.me/2022/06/20/what-is-the-movement-for-immunization-agenda-2030-ia2030/
#AnnLindstrand #IA2030 #immunization #ImmunizationAgenda2030 #MovementForImmunizationAgenda2030 #peerLearning #RobinNandy #TheGenevaLearningFoundation