The Red Cross Red Crescent Movements Role in Integrated Measles Campaigns

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The Red Cross Red Crescent Movements Role in
Integrated Measles Campaigns
8th Annual Measles Initiative
Meeting American Red Cross 23-24
September 2008
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The Auxiliary Role of the Red Cross and Red
Crescent
VolunteersSocial mobilizationCommunity
empowerment Health in emergencyAdvocacyPartn
ership
Capacity buildingCommunity involvementBuilding
alliancesHealth in emergencyFor the most
vulnerable
Ministry of Health
Governmentresponsibilities
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Our Core Contribution Red Cross Red Crescent
volunteers that
Provide volunteer power Go to the hard-to-reach
areas Reach the most vulnerable
populations Support logistics and site
management Monitoring and surveillance
Remain in communities after the campaign is
completed to promote routine vaccination
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Measles Campaign Support 2007
12 countries gt20,000 volunteers Cameroon Congo
DPRK Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Indonesia Lesotho Mada
gascar Mali Myanmar Pakistan
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Measles Campaign Support 2008
13 countries gt15,000 volunteers Benin Cameroon
(emergency) Central Africa Republic Côte
dIvoire Georgia Lebanon Malawi Morocco Mozambique
Nepal Nigeria Pakistan Tanzania
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• With financial and technical support from ARC
  UNICEF, TRCS activities include
• Year Region Districts Interventions Vol
  trained HH visited Children Reg
  Children Vacc
• 2 4 Measles Polio
  860 68,024
  150,141 219,525
• 2002 3 7 Measles 7m-15yrs
  1,242 165,676
  446,173 462,173
• 8 11 Integrated
  1,886 270,139
  490,368 489,562
• 2008 16 30 Integrated 6m-10yrs
  5,611 forthcoming forthcoming
  forthcoming

• For 2008 campaign, selection of TRCS intervention
  sites was done by MOHSW. Criteria used
• Hard to reach areas
• Areas with low acceptance
• Areas not easily accessible
• Areas with low coverage
• High risk areas reported measles cases.

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• Campaign Social Mobilization
• Training facilitated by TRCS, MoHSW, TFNC, NMCP
• Training directed towards
• Social mobilization techniques
• Community entry process
• Basic information on measles, polio and other
  vaccine-preventable childhood illnesses
• Forms to be filled
• Pre-campaign volunteer activities included
• House to house visits (registration and
  education)
• Establishment of folk media groups
• Sensitization meetings with community leaders and
  influential people
• Volunteer activities during vaccination days
• Follow-up on no show children
• Lining up parents and crowd control
• Support caretakers with more than one child
• ITN distribution and re treatment of existing
  nets (2005 in 3 districts)
• Other activities included
• Documentation of lessons learned

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Federation Measles/Polio Funding 2000-2007/8
2008-2009 Global Measles and Polio Initiative
Appeal 2,104,813 CHF Approximate totals (CHF)
In 2008, donors included American, Norwegian,
Swedish, Finnish New Zealand RC Societies
excludes funds from other sources (NS, DREFs,
bilateral or in-country partners).
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MoUs between IFRC / AFRO PAHO SEARO EMRO EURO
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Looking Forward

• Continue to support the Measles Initiative
  through social mobilization during and after
  campaigns, role of AmCross as founding partner
• Build evidence base on volunteer effectiveness
  through better reporting, monitoring and
  evaluation
• Quantify differential coverage in RC and non-RC
  districts within country
• Use case based surveillance to monitor measles
  incidence in districts served by RC
• Expand regional involvement through new Zonal
  system
• Mobilize additional donors to support social
  mobilization
• Harmonize social mobilization activities with
  ongoing community - based programming

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Thank you