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Prioritise the availability of operational funds to support community engagement and social mobilisation well in advance of vaccination activities. |
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Develop a community engagement strategy that emphasises the principles of community involvement, co-development and iterative adaptation. Vaccination teams should meet iteratively with community members, actively seek their questions and input on strategy development, and adapt vaccination strategies accordingly. |
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Engage local, trusted health workers (including community health workers) to support vaccination activities, ensuring a continued connection between communities and the vaccination campaign. |
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Develop rapid processes to recruit and manage an expanded vaccination workforce for the response. Care should be taken to balance response staffing requirements with the need to maintain existing services. |
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Evaluate and refine training strategies to ensure vaccination teams are well equipped to conduct vaccination activities. Identify teams who are not able to access remote training and design suitable alternatives. |
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Provide vaccination teams with clear guidance on the management of multidose vaccine vials, including which population groups should be offered leftover vaccine doses where the vial cannot be appropriately stored and used at a later time. |
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Ensure national ownership, access and capacity to analyse vaccination campaign data, including the use of electronic data capture systems. |
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Work with technical leads across the outbreak response (eg, surveillance, vaccination) to streamline the collection, aggregation and analysis of different indicators to support vaccination campaign monitoring. |
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Bring together response pillar leads and routine health programme leads to discuss opportunities to integrate health services during vaccination campaigns. Any integration of services should be well resourced and well coordinated between services and with communities, to mitigate potential adverse impacts. |
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LMICs, low- and middle-income countries.