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POLIO and ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION at the WHAT WORKS? SUMMIT

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This is the space for dialogue and debate on some of the POLIO and ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION focused presentations at the WHAT WORKS? SBCC Summit. Whether you are attending the Summit or not please do submit questions and share inisghts and ideas. When we have the presentations for each of the sessions that follows we will post those. With many thanks for engaging - very much appreciated.

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Submitted by Warren Feek on Thu, 04/05/2018 - 13:01 Permalink

Perhaps to a greater extent than any other social and behaviour change health initiative the polio social mobilization strategy - the voices, norms, behaviours and social action process - was massively informed by data. Increasingly as the polio initiative advanced this was micro data as discrete as block level information. For example the data on missed children (not vaccinated) was collected, analyzed and helped to drive the norms, behaviour and voice work. It was also predominantly so called "hard" data - numbers that could be organised and analysed.

The goal of this preformed panel is be to examine the inter-relationship between data and SBCC through the lessons learned from the polio experience in India, Nigeria and Pakistan and from a global perspective.

At the completion of this panel and the dialogue and debate that will follow, we will seek to state 4 major conclusions for ways to increase the relationship between data and SBCC initiatives for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of that work.

Panelists

Data, Polio and Communication - What Worked and Why?
Amanda Quintana, USAID
  

Polio Communication and Polling Data - What Do We Know That Could Help?
Rustam Haydarov, UNICEF and Dr. Gillian SteelFisher, Harvard Opinion Research Program

Global Evolution of Data-Based Polio Communications And How That Was Implemented and Monitored In/With Countries
Lora Shimp, JSI
 

Moderator:

Warren Feek, The Communication Initiative
   

An Open Session is being held at the #SBCCSummit that we thought you might like to check out. It is following the Preformed Panel Necessary Bedfellows - But How to Connect? Data and SBCC.

Open Session details:
Wednesday, April 18 from 12:00 PM  -  1:15 PM    
Polio Communication: What Works in Complex Settings?
Location: Kintamani 7

Description:
Join this open session as experts examine how learnings from polio eradication may be applied to work in other development issues in equally complex settings with low performance against the Sustainable Development Goals. This session will be livestreamed and/or a recording will be made available.

Presenters:
Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, Focal Person on Polio Eradication, Pakistan
Dr. Folake Olayinka, Maternal and Child Survival Program
Amanda Quintana, USAID
Rina Dey, CORE Group Polio Project
Anna Sukhodolska, UNICEF

Submitted by Diane Summers on Thu, 04/12/2018 - 05:21 Permalink

#SBCCSummit Oral Presentation details:
Tuesday, April 17 from 12:00 PM  -  1:15 PM    
Shot Talk: Communicating about Immunization
Location: Uluwatu 5

Description:

1. Analyzing the Conversation Networks on Vaccination: Using Content and Network Analysis to Identify Narratives and Social Influencers for Audience Engagement
Roel Lutkenhaus, Center for Media and Health: Erasmus University Rotterdam

2. How to Immunize 35 Million Children in 60 days?
Rizky Syafitri, UNICEF

3. The Use of Social Data and Communication Evidence in Global Polio Eradication Programme
Rustam Haydarov, UNICEF

4. Exploring Social and Behavior Change Communication to Support Delivery of Micronutrient Powders in Rural Uganda
Hillary Murphy, JSI

Moderator: Diane Summers, UNICEF

Just wanted to let you know that we have received a #SBCCSummit presentation you might be interested in: Hillary Murphy's "Exploring Social and Behavior Change Communication to Support Delivery of Micronutrient Powders in Rural Uganda", which is part of the Oral Presentation session Shot Talk: Communicating about Immunization. (Thank you for sharing it, Hillary!) We encourage you to access the presentation here (click on the hyperlinked title) and to comment on it in this space. We look forward to a fruitful discussion, whether or not you can attend the #SBCCSummit!

Submitted by Rafael Obregón on Thu, 04/12/2018 - 09:15 Permalink

#SBCCSummit Details:
Wednesday, April 18 from 8:30 AM  -  10:00 AM    
Morning Plenary: Comm Talks and Keynote Address
Location: Nusa Dua Hall 5

Comm Talk 1: Muppets for a Better World - Promoting Girl's Education in Afghanistan
Clemence Quint, Magenta Consulting
Danny Labin, Sesame Workshop

Comm Talk 2: @SBCC Embracing the Transformative Nature of the Digital Revolution
Tomas Jenson, Communication, Knowledge & Change

Keynote Address: Honorable Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, Focal Person on Polio Eradication, Pakistan

Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq is a member of Pakistan’s Senate and has been the prime minister’s point person on the nation’s polio eradication programs since Nov. 2013. At the time, Pakistan – one of only three nations where polio remained endemic – was seen as a threat to global eradication efforts. Working closely with polio spearheading partners and the prime minister, she helped lead the country’s polio program out of a crisis situation and has been praised for those efforts by, among others, the International Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and World Health Assembly.

As a senior policy maker in her country, she recognizes the essential role that SBCC has played in polio eradication efforts and is a major advocate for its continued and expanded use both within the polio program and in other initiatives such as ensuring that all Pakistani children are vaccinated against preventable childhood diseases.

Keynote Address: Chaning Jang, Chief Strategy Officer, Busara, Center for Behavioral Economics

Chaning Jang is the Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Busara Behavioral Economics, and has helped lead the organization since 2013. Channing is responsible for both internal and external strategy, and a portfolio of projects, primarily focused on academic research. Prior to joining Busara, Channing worked as an English teacher in the Czech Republic and a equities and derivatives trader in Los Angeles.

Chaning completed a Postdoc at Princeton University in Psychology and Public Affairs, and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawai’i with specialization in Behavioral Economics and Development. He completed his undergraduate studies in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.

Moderator: Rafael Obregon, UNICEF