Project summary:
The overall vision of the partnership is to design an evidence-based, audience specific, and contextually relevant community engagement actions to strengthen COVID-19 vaccine uptake amongst children 5 to under 12 years, and promote booster dose uptake in Bideha Municipality of Dhanusha district.
Funding partner: Save The Children
Project Duration: 14th August 2022 to December 2022
Objectives:
- Generate adequate evidence and social norms insight to inform the ongoing vaccination uptake interventions
- Promote evidence-based and age-appropriate COVID-19 vaccine-related interventions to the communities to overcome the barrier to vaccine uptake
- Strengthen the capacity of stakeholders relevant in promoting COVID-19 vaccines (child and youth club and local government counterparts) to design, develop, and monitor strategic RCCE efforts and implement community-focused and need-based interventions by the end of December 2022
- Address rumors and misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccines and increase vaccination uptake to 4% by the end of December 2022 based on the current vaccination status
Project Location: Bideha Palika, Dhanusha
Key Activities:
- Baseline on COVID-19 vaccination of children, and booster uptake data in Bideha Municipality
- Context reporting on social norms, socio-political barriers to COVID-19 vaccination
- Coordination with local palika and local government to implement proposed COVID-19 vaccine promotion actions
- Risk Communications and Community Engagement (RCCE) training to youth and child club members
- Conduct Awareness on the Wheels (AoW) campaign
- Door-to-Door engagement program in coordination with child and youth club members, FCHVs, and health officials
- Establishment of Community Information Points (CIP) and develop referral pathway monitoring
- Organize mobile vaccine clinics in coordination with health officials, school management committee, and local government in target palika
- Conduct an endline survey to understand the reach, resonance, and impact of the community engagement actions
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