Insights Live #6: Learning about COVID-19 recovery, interpersonal communication, and gender in the Movement for Immmunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030)

Insights Live is the Geneva Learning Foundation’s event series in which we share what we are learning through the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), reaching, as of December 2022, over 48,000 health professionals.

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In this edition of Insights Live, we focus on what we learned during Teach to Reach: Connect 7, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals.

UNICEF was the main global partner for this edition and contributed its Interpersonal Communication (IPC) Guide, which was sent to all registered participants.

Women Who Deliver Vaccines, a self-organized collective of 143 health professionals from 38 countries, opened the event.

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Topics explored at Teach to Reach 7 include:1. Interpersonal communication: What have you changed since 2020 in how you speak with caregivers and the community about vaccines?

2. Build back better: How are you responding and what support do you need as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels the largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades and 25 million infants missed out on lifesaving vaccines in 2021?

3. Gender: What actions are you taking as a man to support women who work in immunization and why?

Teach to Reach 7’s overarching theme was to explore local practitioner responses to the continued “backsliding” in vaccination coverage reported by UNICEF and WHO in July 2022, beginning an exploration of what “build back better” means at the local level.

Networking and plenary sessions had a particular focus on (1) use of the TGLF Ideas Engine, a repository of advice, ideas and practices provided by participants on the TGLF learning programme; (2) interpersonal communication and use of the UNICEF guide/toolkit; and (3) use of root cause analysis to identify underlying reasons for low coverage.

Plenary sessions focused on: (1) sharing experiences in development and implementation of IA2030 Action Plans; (2) local challenges and building back better post-pandemic; and (3) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

These themes, together with three guiding questions , provided a structure for peer learning, although participants remained free to discuss whatever they found meaningful in the main event networking activity which consists of a series of individual, private meetings (“speed dating”) with one other randomly-selected participant each other.

14,134 health professionals (7,667 anglophones and 6,467 francophones) participated asynchronously, receiving and responding to event resources such as slide decks, stories, and guidance.

Over 2,400 watched the livestreamed plenary session on YouTube and other social media channels.

1240 participated in networking sessions: 759 English speakers, 418 French speakers, 53 bilinguals, and 10 global partners.

As well as the experiences shared before and during the event itself, further information was gathered in post-event feedback, which was provided by 1,024 participants, with 584 of them additionally sharing a success story, lesson learned or challenge.

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