Polio Eradication Toolkit

Three-Day Training Module for Community Mobilizers

Length: 62 pages (paper material)
Year: 2009
Organization: CGPP/India
Country: India
Language: Hindi

Trainers of community mobilizers use this intensive three-day capacity-building program to impart knowledge and skills in social mobilization activities for polio eradication. The training is highly interactive and uses a variety of training methods, including group work and participatory sessions, problem-solving exercises, games and role plays. Trainers conduct the training annually.

This module contains four sections:

1. The basics of polio eradication and its vital link with routine immunization
2. Communication and counselling skills theory and practice focusing on the principles of health education, counselling for behaviour change, and strategies for recalling appropriate messages and dispelling myths
3. The practical use of program-specific tools and methods for social mobilization activities and inter-personal communication
4. The use of registers for recording up-to-date information on households and institutions in a mobilizer’s catchment area for planning and implementing social mobilization activities.

An expanded four-day version for training of trainers also covers participatory training methods, facilitation skills, and needs assessments.