The main aim of the project is to conduct a community Durbar to introduce an early warning system on Pneumonia prevention and management among (500) Participant made up of Herbalist, Traditional Birth attendants, Queen Mothers and Opinion leaders, Islamic Malams and Health Officials in Ghana through community outreach education Durbar within a period of three months. The main goal of the project is to contribute to the national immunization program in reaching out to more children under years in Ghana on prevention, treatment and management of Pneumonia within and across Districts and in Partnership with the stakeholders. Number of babies immunized at home and at day care centers on Pneumonia, Number of places visited to educate on Pneumonia and Number of Mother spoken to on Pneumonia are the outcomes of project.
About Project
Main Objectives
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- Behaviour Change communication
- To conduct a community Durbar to introduce an early warning system on Pneumonia prevention and management among (500) Participant made up of Herbalist, Traditional Birth attendants, Queen Mothers and Opinion leaders, Islamic Malams and Health Officials in Ghana through community outreach education Durbar within a period of three months.
- Advocacy
- To develop an appropriate Drama on Pneumonia to be shown at communities
- To educate on prevention and management of Pneumonia and Diarrhea in their own localities before and after the programme at wider areas.
- Behaviour Change communication
Events Date –XXX TO XXXX
Identify potential planning committee members
Pre-Implementation
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- Compile a list of possible partners
- Finding event locations.
- Spokesperson with news Outlets.
- Identify speakers for your event
- Conduct meetings to plan events and start developing drama concept around Pneumonia.
- Compile a list of possible partners
6 WEEKS OUT
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- Develop a schedule for regular and weekly meetings
- Decide on a place, date and time for your event.
- Conduct a Public film show on Child Heath Day (October 1st) at a community on Pneumonia prevention.
- Training for Volunteers from the Traditional Birth Attendants Queen Mothers and Herbalist Association. 5 WEEKS OUT
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- Contact partner groups, Meet and Invite speakers.
- -Continue sub–‐committee work to plan event.
- -Begin design of event materials.
- -Send a calendar listing to relevant newspapers &TV news. 4 WEEKS OUT
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- Registration of events
- Continue outreach to partner organizations, volunteers, the media and speakers.
- Recruit volunteers
- Promote the event
- Begin to develop press materials.
- Begin Drama production and shooting of Film on Pneumonia.
- SHOW FILM ON Global Hand washing Day at a community. (October 15th)
3 WEEKS OUT
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- Send official confirmation information and logistics to all participants.
- Reach out to volunteers to thank them and confirm their assignments and arrival times.
- Continue to “crowd build” Organize a walk with school children dubbed “walk to save a life, stop the crises of pneumonia
- Conduct a final walk–‐through of the site with the venue representative.
- Finalize designed materials.
Date ………to …….
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- Continue outreach to media and offer pre–‐event media interviews with speakers.
- Send committee members and volunteers throughout the community to promote the event and encourage attendance.
- Send background materials on the event.
- Print out helpful World Pneumonia Day resources to distribute at the event.
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Four Days Prior to Event
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- Host final planning committee meeting to run through last–‐minute Details. Day before Event
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- Check in with media contacts to confirm attendance.
- Meet with volunteers to make final assignments and answer any questions or concerns they may have.
- Set up equipment, directional signs, and have staff on hand to greet speakers, the media, partners and other key attendees. Morning of Event
Date……….
Check in with media contacts to confirm attendance.
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- Meet with volunteers to make final assignments.
- Set up equipment, directional signs, and have staff on hand to greet speakers, the media, partners and other key attendees.
- Pneumonia Day materials to be distributed to attendees
- Gather all speakers together and brief them.
- Take photographs and video.
- Following the Event
- Send thank you notes
- Watch the news coverage and keep a record with clippings and print outs.
- Report to the WORLD PNEUMONIA DONNORS.
- Send Photos and news clips
- Keep contact information on hand for future events.
Date…….
World Pneumonia Day is November 12th and we encourage a final event to mark the day in celebration.
(An Illustration of a happy or a crying baby)
This will form the basis for the intervention of the awareness program and may be incorporated in to the promotional materials as such.)
After the events Date……… to ……
A rural community drama on the cause and prevention of Pneumonia. This will be turned in to a Video film and to be shown at all times and in Voice messages to be aired in local languages on FM Radio stations before and after to the communities on special Holidays like the Child health day, at some selected first day at school.
There will be visibility activities that will include: immunization, proper breastfeeding and nutrition, Global hand washing day. Demonstration of appropriate case management.
Documentation & Reporting
Strategy
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- A rural community drama on the cause and prevention of Pneumonia. This will be turned in to a Video film and to be shown at all times and in Voice messages to be aired in local languages on FM Radio stations before and after to the communities on special Holidays like the Child health day, at some selected first day at school.
- Training for Volunteers from the Traditional Birth Attendants, Moslem Malams and Herbalist.
- There will be visibility activities that will include: immunization, proper breastfeeding and nutrition, Global hand washing day. Demonstration of appropriate case management.
- To organize durbars in the communities to enhance behavior change in the target communities on the World Pneumonia Day on 12 November 2012.
Goal
To contribute to the national immunization program in reaching out to more children under years in Ghana on prevention, treatment and management of Pneumonia within and across Districts and in Partnership with the stakeholders.
An Overview
Pneumonia is the number one killer of children under age 5 worldwide and especially in Ghana. It claims the lives of young children in the urban rural areas each year especially where access to health care is limited. These deaths are especially tragic because solutions do not exist to save young lives through early warning system in the rural communities. Interventions such as immunization, good nutrition and sanitation practices like hand washing, exclusive breastfeeding, proper caregiver education, effective and affordable treatment will be part of the education to reduce this death toll and protecting children and preventing pneumonia and Diarrhea through treatment will in a long way help eradicate Pneumonia. A Survey on Pneumonia Treatment carried out in 2006 in Ghana indicates that
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- 6% of children who had symptoms of pneumonia were taken to an appropriate provider
- 33% of children under-5 years suspected to be infected with pneumonia receive an antibiotic treatment.
- Generally, treatment of suspected pneumonia with an antibiotic is very low among poor households in Ghana.
- Only 2.8% of women knew of the two danger signs of pneumonia.
- on Pneumonia Treatment carried out in 2006 in Ghana indicates that
- 6% of children who had symptoms of pneumonia were taken to an appropriate provider
- 33% of children under-5 years suspected to be infected with pneumonia receive an antibiotic treatment.
- Generally, treatment of suspected pneumonia with an antibiotic is very low among poor households in Ghana.
- Only 2.8% of women knew of the two danger signs of pneumonia.
What are you doing on Date……?
The Day will be commemorated with a Durbar at the Dangbe West of the Grater Accra Region hosting 500 people made up of Herbalist, Traditional Birth Attendance and Faith groups. The key note address will be made by the District Health Director and the Member of Parliament of the District amidst Drama on Pneumonia and Cultural Dance.
Ghana has just introduced two new vaccines during the commemoration of the African Vaccination week in April 2012 which have great potentials to improve child health and saves lives. These are the pneumococcal vaccine which will protect children from pneumonia, ear infection and meningitis whilst the rotavirus vaccine protects against diarrhoea caused by rotavirus. This laudable initiative needs to amplify to the entire country.
Aim
The project is aimed at mobilizing 500 key people including Herbalist, Traditional birth Attendants (TBA) Queen Mothers and Islamic Mallams to prevent Pneumonia at homes, schools and at child friendly care centers especially at remote communities by bringing them to inform about symptoms, causes, prevention and care for pneumonia in order to reduce the mortality rate in Ghanaian Children.
And to let families become aware of the need to detect and prevent the occurrence of Pneumonia and diarrhoea at homes through drama as a creative medium expose the stumbling blocks that prevent the public from having access to protection, prevention and treatment measures. The program will invite speakers the district health Directorate to talk to the audience on Pneumonia and Diarrhoea diseases.
What problem is it trying to solve?
The problem of Pneumonia in Ghana has been a headache to rural hard to reach communities families. Some of these problems such as unclean environment has led to the outbreak of Pneumonia and water borne diseases like Cholera and intestinal worm infections. In Ghana children between 0 to 5 years die due to water borne diseases like diarrhoea and Pneumonia. Children have been sick of Pneumonia due to not washing their hands after visiting the toilets and they use the same hands to eat food that they have bought. They sometimes eat this food and fruits that have not been covered or cleaned properly with dust and flies depositing germs on them, Children go without washing their hands in their communities. The innovation project will put in place a user-friendly system that will remind on signs, symptoms and treatment as well as the controlling of Pneumonia in the communities through proper hygiene practices like hand washing.
Beneficiaries of the Project: Rural communities (Dangbe West District of the Greater Accra Region of GHANA)
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- The primary beneficiaries are children under 5 years, disable male and female in the rural and urban communities in Ghana.
- The secondary beneficiaries are adult’s male and female Herbalist, Traditional Birth Attendants, Queen –Mothers, Islamic Imams and opinion leaders, chiefs, fetish shrine owners and faith homes.
Participants will invite members of Associations and unions from communities as follows: Prampram, Minya, Agotor, Tsokpoli, Old/New Ningo, Ahuiam, Ayetepa, Amusalu, Bologa Mawupepo, Nyigbanya, Lekponunor, Atsekpo, Dodokope, Salam Dawa, Mangotsona, Agamanyape, NageakopeKpogunor and Nwetsokope with a population of 43,500. The project will conduct a community DURBAR with a cross section at the grass root level people involving farmers, churches, and mosque heads, teachers, chiefs, queen-mothers, opinion leaders, herbalists, faith groups, students and heads of social groups. These groups are known to be vulnerable in care and support of children in their communities of mainly farming and fishing along the sea shore coastal line. The district is known to have several traditional healers who come in contact with children for herbal treatment of various health problems including pneumonia for medications.
The rational to educate the Traditional people in the community is due our activities at the communities for the past 6 years in creating awareness on Tuberculosis and the discovery of the unorthodox medicinal practices drug peddlers in their communities with regards to the treatment of children when sick of Pneumonia or diarrhoea. These herbalists are the first line of call when children are sick at homes at night and at the day time. They therefore need to be educated on the pneumonia signs symptoms and treatment of child hood diseases.
How will you encourage individuals and organizations to get involved in your events?
Before and during the immunization day itself, members in teams will conduct home to –home visit at the communities to educate on the need to immunize vaccinate children under five years. Names of children will be checked to ensure that all illegible Children in a particular community are immunized.
Target and relevant Organizations will be invited to attend the events and play specific roles such as discussions and sharing of views. The Administration of the Vaccine will be done by the local District Health services personnel and Volunteers.
Actions for Participants
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- What are Pneumonias?
- How Pneumonia is caused?
- How Pneumonia is spread?
- Who is at Risk of Pneumonia?
- How Pneumonia can be prevented?
- How can I protect the child from Pneumonia?
- Immunize all Children less than 5 years against Pneumonia before his/her 5th birthday.
- The program will use the ‘’ Key Messages: World Pneumonia Day 20
Outcome/Success
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- Number of babies immunized at home and at day care centers on Pneumonia
- Number of places visited to educate on Pneumonia
- Number of Mother spoken to on Pneumonia
- Number of community people met and spoken to on Pneumonia
- One Durbars organized in the community centre for 500 key people to enhance behavior change in Pneumonia and Diarrhea in the target communities on the World Pneumonia Day on 12 November 2012
- To check on the number of people who attended the Durbar and have leant lesson from the program.
- 100 Single fathers and Mothers parents –As observers
- 100 Traditional Birth attendants/Mid wives-As observer and trainees
- 50 Queen Mothers/Traditional rulers-As participants
- 50 and Herbalist- As invited trainee and participants
- 50 Christian and Moslem Opinion leaders- As participants
- 20 Health Officials- As invited educated participants
- 80 breast feeding mothers- As participants
- 50 children invited to the program from local schools- As invited/ participants.
- To check on the number of people who attended the Durbar and have leant lesson from the program.
- A rural community drama on the cause and prevention of Pneumonia produced and turned in to a Video film to be shown at all times in the communities on Special Holidays like the Child health day, at some selected first day at school has changed people attitudes to go and immunize their children.
- One Orientation seminar for 30 Volunteers including Herbalist, Traditional Birth Attendants, Imams and Chemical Shop owners conducted and will become outreach volunteers report that children under five are being immunize.
- Visibility activities of immunization, proper breastfeeding and nutrition, hand washing and the demonstration of appropriate case management is reported to be done by Health nurses.
The Association of people for practical Life Education (XXXXX) is a local Non-Governmental Organization established in 1977 which focuses on non -formal education. As a Civic education-oriented XXXXX has been working with the press Media in Ghana for a long time now and has been inviting the Press to publish project programs. XXXXX has implemented over the years projects that included Family Life Education, Tuberculosis awareness, HIV.AIDS Stigma and discrimination and Anti-Human Trafficking and also Reproductive Health Education, counseling, Contraceptive services and income Generation activities. And in all these activities the press is invited to cover them for the records and for publication. XXXXX is an active member of Ghana NGO Coalition on the rights of the Child, Ghana NGO Coalition Health. TB partnership and Malaria Coalition.
Partnership
xxxxx is a non-governmental, non-profit-making organization formed in 2009 in response to a felt need of the community where it is located. It is formally registered under the Registrar General’s Department of Ghana in 2011 with a registration No. G-35,318 and recognized by the Department of Social Welfare as a non-governmental organization with registration No. D.S.W/4934. Reliance Network seeks to support underserved communities and groups in the Greater Accra region and Eastern Region of Ghana to realise their worth and commit resources towards development. In a more detailed sense, the organization embraces the critical principle of community involvement by engaging its target groups/communities in identifying, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating projects that address their needs.
XXXXX is collaborating with xxxx to implement the project.
The events of the project will use the community information van to disseminate the program and Town Criers will be empowered to cry out the message to the target people as the ground work level of intervention.
The second level will be the Local Press Media invitation for Television coverage and the Local Radio FM Station stations will broadcast the events in local languages prior to the ‘’D’’ Day of the November 12 2012 event.
The project will produce an article to be used in the Ghana NGO Coalition in Health Newsletter as a member and in the Ghanaian Daily newspapers. There will be a short-edited Video and High-resolution digital photographs that tell a story on the traditionalist coping with issues of Pneumonia.
A Comprehensive documentation of events and reports with personal stories and storytelling pictures will be produced and sent to the donor for posting on the World Pneumonia Day.
The Project will produce illustrated information handouts on Pneumonia that target the community and use is as instructive educational materials that could be translated from English to local languages for the reading and understanding of everybody.
The programme will be streamlined into XXXXX’s current ongoing Tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS programme in the target areas. Lessons learnt will be reviewed into the project activities. The training seminars/durbar will involve people who will go back to their communities and inform on Pneumonia as a Health-related issues. The Drama will be turned into a Video to be shown by XXXXX Project over time in the communities.
XXXXX is a Non-Governmental Organization and has been working in the project areas for more than two decades. Consequently, the organization has acquired enormous experience in sustainability. The knowledge and skills gained by staffs from this project and other training will be stream lined and integrated into the Local District Heath Service programs. This will be self-supporting by the Maternal Health and child units of the district health units and be overseen by the Health Educators Volunteers we have in the district and in the communities. The specific groups that will be involved in this project are women and parents Associations, Traditional rulers. Education will be mounted on issues that will reduce the cause of Pneumonia with regards to gender especially mother to mother, child to child, status and age. -This form submission was sent via World Pneumonia Day.
Cost Elements
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- Pre-implementation (Meetings and travels) XXXX
- Personnel cost (Project Director, Project Coordinator, Field Officer, Secretary & Accounts Officer and a Master of ceremonies 2 resource persons for Pneumonia Education and other Childhood diseases XXXX
- Seminar/Outreach Education for 30 Outreach Volunteers on Pneumonia Travel Allowances Accommodation XXXXX
- Durbar at the community for 1000 plus community people (Canopy, Brass band hire, chairs and Public Address system XXXX
- Materials Development and printing (Poster, Handouts, Banners & T-Shirts.)
- Drama production and Documentary (Performance and of Hiring of Film) XXXX
- Press coverage (Filming, recording and editing)XXXX
- 8-Guest Visitors Allowance (Transport Allowances for Groups to and from the Durbar ground) XXXXX
- Entertainment for 500 invited groups of participants after the Durbar (Minerals drinks, small chops) XXXXXX
- Equipment Hire (Information Van Hire, and Village town Crier for community entry) XXXX
- Administration Cost (Documentation, Communications, Internet, Office rent, Secretarial Service, Bank charges, Reporting and Monitoring) XXXXX.
