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Global Polio Communications Indicators

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Following an expert consultation, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Communication Indicators were established to help key stakeholders assess and monitor progress towards milestones outlined in the 2010-2012 Strategic Plan. They provide insights into how well the high-risk countries are performing in the areas of communications and social mobilisation by measuring performance against a core set of indicators and targets.

This resource consists of a table that is divided into 4 categories, for which each the following are listed: indicators, target and risk assessment, and sources of information. The categories include:

  1. Impact: Indicators include:
    • "Percentage of children (6-35 months) with 0 doses OPV [oral polio vaccine] in non-polio AFP [acute flaccid paralysis] cases
    • Percentage of children (6-35 months) with more than 4 doses OPV in non-polio AFP cases"
  2. Outcome: Indicators include:
    • "Trends in missed children due to refusal to accept OPV nationally and in high-risk (HR) areas
    • Trends in missed children due to all social barriers ["the cultural, religious, political and economic reasons that may contribute to an overt or covert resistance to vaccinate"] to accept OPV nationally and in HR areas
    • Percentage of caregivers aware of polio campaigns prior to the arrival of vaccinators
    • Source of information from those caregivers who report having heard any campaign message ("Targets should focus on IPC [interpersonal communication], and higher trends in areas with communications staff than those without")"
  3. Process: Indicators include:
    • "Social data is systematically used for communications planning [This involves assessing the consistency in planning based on regular coordination meetings and whether the social data is reflected in the meeting minutes]
    • % of planned activities that took place in High-Risk Districts or LGAs [local government areas] that reported timely receipt of funding"
  4. Inputs: Indicators include:
    • "Percentage of identified polio communications personnel in place [at designated Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) posts] in a country programme
    • Percentage of identified polio communications field personnel in place [at designated GPEI posts]
    • Percentage of designated high risk areas with polio communications field personnel [ at sub-district level]
    • Percentage of HR areas that receive timely communications/social mobilization funding [prior to the supplementary immunisations activities (SIAs) for the past 3 SIAs]"

This chart is Box 1 (page 3) of the Polio Communications Quarterly Update - May 2012, a summary of which can be found within the Related Summaries section, below.

Editor's note, January 30 2018: Apologies, but this resource is no longer available online.

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Polio Communications Quarterly Update - May 2012.