A CCP-led campaign to promote COVID-19 and routine vaccinations in several African countries earlier this year has won a Silver Anthem Award.
A new CCP-led technical brief lays out five lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be adapted to any public health emergency that may arise in the future.
By working closely with Nigerians, who were involved in everything from identifying the challenges to developing and implementing the solutions that were part of the project’s activities, CCP’s Breakthrough ACTION prepared government and community groups to take the project successes and build on them long into the future.
“In every society, journalists play a role in disseminating information,” says CCP’s Olayinka Umar-Farouk. “To do this better, journalists must be adequately trained as part of preparedness efforts for future outbreaks.”
During COVID-19 pandemic, CCP led a social media campaign in Malawi using influencers to share messages about vaccination. Results were mixed.
With all eyes on the African soccer tournament, the Breakthrough ACTION project has created soccer-themed messages to promote COVID-19 vaccination and routine immunizations to audiences in four countries.
Stakeholders are building on COVID-19 lessons to shape resilient health systems that can accommodate vaccines and withstand future pandemics.
Older Indonesians helped their peers make the decision be vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of a CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION activity.
A CCP-led program trains local shopkeepers in Bangladesh to be sources of not just supplies but information, notably on COVID-19 vaccination.
“We are proud to be able to continue serving people around the world who want to be protected from what is still a global pandemic,” says the director of the Breakthrough ACTION project.
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