Largest financial contributor

Purchased the vaccines

Oversaw overall direction of polio programme

Hired community health workers, district immunisation officers, accredited social health activists and auxiliary nurse midwives

Decided what policies would be implemented

Led the National Polio Surveillance Programme

Provided technical and organisational support for surveillance

Alongside UNICEF, led the Social Mobilisation Network (SMNet), an infrastructure of community health workers who operated in each high risk community. SMNet’s work involved the community mapping of households, tracking immunisation of households and recruitment of local sources of authority to build vaccine credibility

Contributed to the production of communication and media materials

In addition to social mobilisation, CORE community mobilisers collected census data and recruited informants for surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)15

Alongside the CORE Group, led the SMNet, an infrastructure of community health workers who operated in each high risk community in Uttar Pradesh

SMNet’s work involved the community mapping of households, tracking immunisation of households, and recruitment of local sources of authority to build vaccine credibility

Led the Underserved Strategy to overcome socioeconomic resistance

Provided advocacy and mobilisation at religious, political and bureaucratic levels

Assembled the Ulama Committee, consisting of Islamic scholars who helped address vaccine misinformation among some vaccine-hesitant Muslim groups

Created general health camps

An advisory group com­posed of experts who provided recommenda­tions to the government

Partners of the ‘Under­served Strategy’ to overcome socioeconomic and cultural resistance

Examples: Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia Millia Islamia, the Ulama Committee

Provided financial support for India’s polio eradication programme

Examples: US Agency for Inter­national Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention