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Lessons and learnings on RECOVER
COVID-19 subjected vulnerable population groups to numerous interconnected burdens termed as “collateral effects.” Collateral effects of the COVID-19 pandemic include jeopardy on health systems coordination, disruption of access to essential care such as maternal and child health, reduced access to safe food, food insecurity, disruption in breastfeeding, and disruption in routine immunization activities. However, the implementation of RECOVER has brought useful insights into managing the collateral effects that arose from COVID-19 in particular and pandemics in general. This course provides in-depth knowledge of how the lessons and learnings of RECOVER are helping mitigate collateral effects that arise from pandemics.
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Approaches and principles: Insight into approaches and principles that undergird the implementation of RECOVER
The implementation of RECOVER is undergirded by several approaches, key among them being Systems Thinking, Multisectoral Approach, and Gender Transformative Approach. This course provides in-depth knowledge of how Systems Thinking, Multisectoral Approach, Gender Transformative Approach, and Continuous Learning informed the successfiul implementation of RECOVER.
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Health Systems of West-African Countries: Fact-based insights
Health systems are organizations, people, and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore, or maintain health. Strengthening health systems is now a key objective of many projects and many organizations ongoing or active in West Africa. Gathering insights from extensive literature and documents reviewed and presented in a structured and comparative way, this course will provide the learner with all the key insights they need to know to be effective in designing and implementing health system-strengthening policies and interventions in any country in the sub-region.
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Know your Network
The course, when ready, is intended to provide learners with all the key details they need to know about WANEL: its governance structure and key functional procedures. It is designed to target WANEL members, especially new members and potential leaders, and to all those who aim to develop sustainable functioning networks in the field of HPS in low-resource settings.
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About WANEL
The West Africa Network of Emerging Leaders (WANEL) is a network of emerging and mid-level Health Policy and Systems (HPS) practitioners and researchers.
Our Vision
A new generation of regional HPS research and practice leaders prepared, in turn, to mentor a future generation of HPS leaders in West Africa. Visit:
Our Mission
To foster a bilingual, cross-country network of practitioners and researchers based in West Africa, and increase the number of junior and mid-level West Africa-based HPS practitioners and researchers with the competencies required for HPS.
About Recover
Rectifying the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in West Africa: A research action (RECOVER). ..Read More
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Rectifying the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in West Africa: A research action (RECOVER)
Background & Rationale
Managing the collateral effects of epidemics is not usually the primary focus of epidemic control plans. However, there is a great need to identify and manage these collateral effects that have inevitably impacted on the survival of populations in Africa and worldwide. To this end, the RECOVER project team is working to collect data on these collateral effects in the sub-region. The reactions, actions and evaluation process of this project will help raise awareness of the need for balanced responses to epidemics that do no more good than harm. To learn about these side effects of COVID-19, a multi-sectoral platform for collaborative learning and action will be set up, composed of the actors of the implementation of the project and led by experts on the issue of epidemics, including that of COVID-19 and, also involving the various financial, educational, social and political institutions at national and ECOWAS level.
Objectives
This regional collaborative learning space aims to facilitate knowledge generation, formulation and implementation of appropriate multi-sectoral policies for better prevention and management of the collateral effects of COVID-19 in particular and major epidemics in general.
Methods
Definition Learning platform: It is an integrated set of interactive online services that provides different people involved with information, tools and resources to support and enhance a collaborative learning process. Within the framework of this project, this group brings together actors from different sectors interested in the problem of the collateral effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations and more broadly, the collateral effects of major epidemics in West Africa.
Topics and content
In our case, the themes will be gathered on the basis of the recommendations contained in the reports of our research activities. These learning themes will be identified by the research actors according to their finding on the effects of COVID-19 on the vulnerable population in their environment. The content of our learning platform is based on different themes that the working group will address throughout the discussions and implementation of the RECOVER project. This content is what makes the platform useful. Specifically, this will include content on, for example: - Collateral effects of COVID-19 on people with disabilities in Benin and Guinea. - Containment or cordon sanitaire: What differences and contributions can be made to COVID-19 control and mitigation of collateral effects? - Exploring the gender transformative interventions in supporting vulnerable groups in Ghana - Lessons learnt, preparedness and recovery assessment/framework for addressing collateral effects of future planned and unplanned adverse events such as the pandemic. - Rectifying the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable women in three West African countries: Guinea, Mali, and Sierra Leone. - Impact of Covid-19 on the health research in Burkina Faso
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