Integrating Gender in the COVID-19 RCCE Response: Technical Brief

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Integrating gender into the COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) response demands consideration of how gender norms and roles, as well as inequitable power dynamics and decision-making, influence people’s experiences and needs at all stages. This technical brief provides practical recommendations to integrate gender across the six pillars of the RCCE response.

Source: Integrating Gender in the COVID-19 RCCE Response – Technical Brief

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    Guidance on SBC for Family Planning During COVID-19

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    This short guide includes important considerations, messages, and resources to support country programs in adapting their FP/RH-focused SBC programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19. Program adaptations and messaging should be adapted in line with country context, available services, and local government response, including that of coordinating bodies responsible for COVID19 risk communication and community engagement efforts.

    Source: Guidance of SBC for Family Planning During COVID-19

    Conseils Sur Le Changement Social Et De Comportement Pour La Planification Familiale Pendant Le Covid-19

    Orientación Sobre El Cambio Social Y De Comportamiento Para La Planificación Familiar Durante El COVID-19

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      Disrupting COVID-19 Stigma: Technical Brief

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      This short guide includes important considerations and resources to support country programs in recognizing and working to reduce stigma around COVID-19.

      Source: Disrupting COVID-19 Stigma – Technical Brief

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        COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Guidance for Field Teams: Technical Brief

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        This is a short guide, with important steps and resources, on how country programs can track and address rumors around COVID-19 (as needed). The guide includes a number of great resources and links while also sharing nuggets from global, collective thinking around rumors.

        The guide includes sections on:

        • Coordinating
        • Discovering the rumors
        • Verifying the information
        • Engaging the community

        Source: Technical Brief: COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Guidance for Field Teams

         

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          COVID-19 House to House Community Outreach Protocol

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          This protocol provides guidance to CGP-GHS Project staff on how to ensure the health and safety of community health volunteers (CHVs) and the unintentional spread of COVID-19 in the community. The need to conduct community-based surveillance and health promotion needs to be weighed against the risk of endangering either CHVs or community members while conducting house-to-house surveillance and health education and promotion activities.

          This protocol is the current position of CGP-GHS Project regarding community outreach activities in the context of COVID-19. The epidemiology of the outbreak remains unclear, and therefore the global community is relying on standard outbreak response protocol to disrupt transmission of COVID-19. Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is cross-cutting in all areas of outbreak response but is primarily the tool to inform the public on risk and prevention measures. One of the most effective ways to communicate risk and the behavior changes that are required to prevent disease is through health education and promotion at the household level.

          Source: COVID-19 House to House Community Outreach Protocol

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            Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations When COVID-19 is Suspected or Confirmed

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            Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling in the context of COVID-19 remains a critical nutrition intervention for the protection and support of pregnant women, caregivers, and their young children. WHO and UNICEF advise caregivers and families with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 to continue the recommended IYCF practices with the necessary hygiene precautions. It is therefore vital to ensure that communities and families around the world adopt these recommendations to help prevent the spread of the virus and care for those who are infected.

            UNICEF and USAID Advancing Nutrition, with the support of the Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group represented by Save the Children and Safely Fed Canada, have developed a counselling package, Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations when COVID-19 is Suspected or Confirmed. The set includes 10 Counselling Cards and a Recommended Practices Booklet. These materials reflect the global recommendations from WHO and UNICEF (March 2020) on IYCF in the context of COVID-19 and may be periodically updated to reflect new or emerging evidence. The package provides both easy-to-understand recommended practices for counselors and user-friendly graphics that can be used with low-literacy communities in different contexts.

            Source: Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations When COVID-19 is Suspected or Confirmed

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              Message Toolkit (Version 2) – Risk Communication for COVID-19

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              This is the second version of the Message Toolkit developed by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) together with USAID’s Breakthrough ACTION project, UNICEF and WHO. It contains additional messages about recent developments in the COVID-19 response.

              Source: Message Toolkit (Version 2) – Risk Communication for COVID-19

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                Message Toolkit Version 1 – Risk Communication for COVID-19

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                This Message Toolkit was developed by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) together with USAID’s Breakthrough ACTION project, UNICEF and WHO. It was designed to help the DOH staff, local government stakeholders, non-government organizations, international organizations and others to communicate consistently and effectively about COVID-19.

                It is a one-stop-shop for all messages about COVID-19. The messages here have been reviewed and approved by the Department of Health (DOH). You are welcome to put your “spin” on them and get creative, but please do not deviate from the facts.

                This is a living document that will be added to as needed.

                Source: Message Toolkit Version 1 – Risk Communication for COVID-19

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                  All You Need to Know about COVID 19 (Tagalog)

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                  This primer contains all basic information on COVID-19 intended for the general public and printed in broadsheets. It has short sections on transmission, common symptoms, ways to protect yourself, steps to take if you catch the virus, and Q&A.

                  Source: All You Need to Know about COVID 19 (Tagalog)

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                    All You Need to Know about COVID-19

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                    This primer contains all basic information on COVID-19 intended for the general public and printed in broadsheets. It has short sections on transmission, common symptoms, ways to protect yourself, steps to take if you catch the virus, and Q&A.

                    Source: All You Need to Know about COVID-19

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