Maternal and Child Survival Program Polio Communication Program Summary [Overview]

Overview

This award builds on prior polio-focused work through the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program and IMMUNIZATIONbasics, and on the communication technical expertise, knowledge management capacities, and reach of The Communication Initiative (The CI).

Since 2014, the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) has actively supported the global effort to eradicate poliomyelitis by providing state-of-the-art expertise, research, and knowledge dissemination in communication. MCSP's objectives have been structured around the following areas:

• Providing expert technical advice on polio communication to endemic countries
• Supporting peer-reviewed research to increase representation of practitioners in journal literature
• Conducting original research into under-researched areas
• Providing direct support to outbreak countries, such as Madagascar, Lao PDR, and Ukraine
• Creating spaces for US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded and other agencies working on polio to capture lessons for dissemination
• Encouraging expert opinion dissemination and discussion through editorials and blogs
• Building a Web-based network of over 13,000 people engaged in communication for polio and immunization, supported by a knowledge management platform with over 2,000 polio and immunization knowledge summaries disseminated through newsletters with large subscriber bases

Figure 1. Global eradication

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Abbreviations

• GPEI: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
• MCSP: Maternal and Child Survival Program
• NPHCDA: National Primary Health Care Development Agency
• OBRA: outbreak response assessment
• RI: routine immunization
• SBCC: social and behavior change communication
• TAG: technical advisory group
• The CI: The Communication Initiative
• USAID: US Agency for International Development
• WHO: World Health Organization

Overview
Key Accomplishments in Brief
Expert Technical Advice
Research
Knowledge Dissemination
Summary
Recommendations
Appendix 1. Statistics and targets table

The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is a global, $560 million, 5-year cooperative agreement funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to introduce and support scale-up of high-impact health interventions among USAID's 25 maternal and child health priority countries,* as well as other countries. MCSP is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives. 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.

* USAID's 25 high-priority countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia

This report is made possible by the generous support of the American people through USAID under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-14-00028. The contents are the responsibility of MCSP and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.