Vaccine Toolkit Implementation Guide (available in Hindi)
Factors Associated with Successful Use of “Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities
This implementation guide outlines factors that promote the successful use of the resource Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities. The toolkit was designed to equip faith actors and stakeholders who partner with or work alongside faith actors, such as government and nonprofit entities, with the tools needed to raise awareness, reduce misinformation, and address barriers that prevent faith communities from engaging in vaccination.
The vaccine promotion toolkit was developed as a part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project, which includes an initiative to identify and address concerns among religious leaders and faith-based communities around vaccination. The project completed a global landscape analysis and 18 key informant interviews for engaging faith leaders in vaccination, which was synthesized into step-by-step best practices in the toolkit.
The toolkit was reviewed through advisory forums and pre-tested in India and Sierra Leone. It was disseminated to approximately 100 key stakeholders (consisting of 27 Muslim, 12 Hindu, and 16 Christian local leaders) across India, after being translated into Hindi, and Sierra Leone (24 Christian leaders, five Muslim leaders, 13 workers including Ministry of Health staff, and four traditional healers). Over 3,000 people were reached in India and 20,000 in Sierra Leone with in-person messages from the toolkit through various activities that were monitored and documented with monthly progress notes. After the six-month pilot period, stakeholders provided feedback on the implementation experience in their communities. These findings, along with the evidence from a research review2 of factors that support the uptake of immunization resources, informed this implementation brief.
Source: USAID/Momentum
Year: 2022
