Acknowledgments - Word of Mouth: Learning from Polio Communication and Community Engagement Initiatives

This paper is the outcome of a polio partners meeting focusing on communication and community engagement within the polio program held on February 1-2, 2018 with representatives from these organizations:

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP)
CORE Group Polio Project
The Communication Initiative
John Snow, Inc.
UN Foundation

Editor's note: Above is an excerpt from the July 2018 paper "Word of Mouth: Learning from Polio Communication and Community Engagement Initiatives - Insights and Ideas to Accelerate Action on Other Development Issues", from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP). Click here to return to the Table of Contents.

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Access the various parts of the document directly:

• Background
• Social Mobilization
• Norms and Culture
• Community-Based Surveillance
• Data-Driven Strategy
• Operational Oversight
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgments

This paper is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-14-00028. The contents are the responsibility of the Maternal and Child Survival Program and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is a global USAID initiative to introduce and support high-impact health interventions in 25 priority countries to help prevent child and maternal deaths. MCSP supports programming in maternal, newborn, and child health, immunization, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems strengthening, water/sanitation/hygiene, malaria, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and pediatric HIV care and treatment. MCSP will tackle these issues through approaches that also focus on household and community mobilization, gender integration, and digital health, among others.