On June 11, from 2:00–3:30 PM GMT, the Linked Immunisation Action Network (Linked) will host a collaborative learning session featuring immunisation leaders and supporting partners working in Peru,Tanzania, and Ghana. The session will highlight their experiences in adapting the recently released WHO Immunization Digital Adaptation Kit (DAK) to their national contexts and lessons they learned.
The session is designed with a mix of presentations, panel questions, and small work groups. First, the country representatives will share their approach to using the global guidance, and the learnings and practical steps they wished they had known before applying the WHO’s SMART Guidelines and recently published Digital Adaptation Kit in their country. Each speaker will offer their perspective on what works, how their country context is shaping the outcome, and what has improved from using the DAK and what areas still need work. This presentation section will then be followed by an interactive panel discussion including the partners who will offer tips on aligning partner support for the effort. Next, the group will break into two breakout rooms with the panels to facilitate conversation and questions. Moderators will facilitate a discussion across the participating countries to address questions regarding opportunities and challenges for using the DAK.
Who should attend: Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) program managers responsible for adapting global guidance into national policy, procedures, protocols and data requirements and Technology Partners responsible for translating national policies into digital solutions will benefit from this session as they learn if they can trim development time and costs from their work by adapting global guidance and using existing sandboxes to accelerate interoperability across their health information systems.
For this event to be most useful to you, we encourage all participants to listen first to Linked’s April 2nd webinar featuring Nat Ratanaprayul, Technical Officer WHO, who provided an overview of the new Digital Adaptation Kit. The webinar recording and materials can be found here on the Linked Network’s website.
How will we structure the discussion: Our goal is to structure this webinar as a peer coaching session. To accomplish this, we have divided this meeting into two parts. The first half will feature Peru, Ghana, and Tanzania’s experiences using the DAK and how technical partners (PAHO and GIZ) supported these national implementations. The second half will be structured as a Q&A and an open exchange in which attendees will be asked to provide specific questions and examples from their context. Our goal in structuring the exchange in this manner is to make it possible for countries to learn if implementing the DAK will be right for their country and what types of technical support they may have to identify locally.