Why Gender Matters: Empower and collaborate with civil society and change agents to overcome gender barriers

03/21/2024

The second session of the webinar series on Why Gender Matters for Immunization: IA2030, will take place on Thursday 4 April 2024. Session 2: Empower and collaborate with civil society and change agents to overcome gender barriers Civil society, grassroots organizations, and change agents are powerful allies in overcoming gender barriers and increasing demand for immunisation services. … Read More

Linked Community News: February 2024

This newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Happy new year! We hope everyone is feeling revitalized following the holiday season. The Linked Network Facilitation Team has been hard at work preparing a series of exciting learning engagements and innovative initiatives to continue strengthening national immunisation programmes and we can’t wait to share … Read More

Linked Community News December 2023

This edition of the newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. As 2023 winds down, we would like to wish everyone in the Linked community a very happy holiday season! Over the past couple months, the Linked community has come together for rich learning exchanges focused on implementing electronic immunisation registers. We can’t … Read More

Linked Community News October 2023

This edition of the newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. The Linked community has been building on their immunisation learning journeys over the last couple of months with exchanges focused on health worker capacity and performance management. Linked recently facilitated a learning circle as a follow-on to earlier virtual and in-person exchanges, … Read More

Resource Round-up: Seven key resources to strengthen health workers’ capacities to improve immunisation performance

This resource round-up is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Health workers (HWs) play a key role in generating demand and increasing immunisation coverage as the perceptions, knowledge, and experience of health workers strongly affects the uptake of vaccination among populations. At the same time, multiple factors influence the performance of HWs in improving … Read More

Linked Community News August 2023

This edition of the newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. The Linked community is invigorated and enthusiastic following multiple opportunities over the past several weeks to connect in person and exchange insights and lessons on topics ranging from providing effective supportive supervision and management to overcoming barriers to introduce and scale up … Read More

Linked Community News June 2023

This edition of the newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. The Linked community is so thrilled to have gotten opportunities over the past several weeks to meet in person and exchange lessons on strengthening the capacity and motivation of the health workforce and providing effective supportive supervision. In early June, stakeholders from … Read More

Practitioner Perspective: How Armenia uses its engagement with Linked to strengthen its immunisation programme

Armenia

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Linked recently had the opportunity to sit down with Gayane Sahakyan, Armenia’s Deputy General Director of the National Center for Disease Control and National Immunisation Program Manager, to discuss how Armenia’s participation in Linked activities contributes to efforts to strengthen its immunisation programme.   During initial discussions when Armenia joined the … Read More