Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
Comparing Resources
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| Resource | The Reaching Every District Strategy; Reaching Every District (RED) 2017 Edition: A guide to increasing coverage and equity in all communities in the African Region |
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| Purpose | Building national capacity from district level upward to maximize access to all vaccines. |
| Content | 5 operational components (outreach, supervision, linking services to communities, monitoring and use of data for action and planning and management for resources). |
| Expected outcomes | (a) Improved planning of service delivery by making health facility specific microplans. (b) Improved coverage. (c) Improved planning capacity. (d) Improved use of data for planning purposes at the local level." |
| Strengths | A comprehensive approach that includes management, service delivery and community engagement components. |
| Contraints/Limitations | Reaching the last 10-15% may require a more demand side planning focusing at health facility and community levels. |
| Why use it | (a) To improve coverage through service delivery and diagnostics, reduce inequity reductions through problem solving and corrective action, and link services to communities. (b) Builds capacity of local levels to improve coverage and equity through the five RED components. (c) In relation to zero dose/under- immunised, the micro-planning method applies a method of social mapping to identify populations at high risk of not accessing or using immunization services and developing pro-equity program actions to overcome these barriers. Guidance provides a more granular community level “reaching every community” approach that aims at reaching populations with context specific community-based interventions. |
| Who should use it | District and community health facilities to make microplans to identify local problems and find solutions using their own data. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/the-reaching-every-district-strategy-reaching-every-district-red-2017-edition-a-guide-to-increasing-coverage-and-equity-in-all-communities-in-the-african-region?catid=666&Itemid=101 |