CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) Polio Eradication Toolkit

This toolkit catalogs many of the materials created and used by each CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) country: Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan. CGPP is a multi-country, multi-partner initiative providing financial support and on-the-ground technical guidance and support to strengthen host country efforts to eradicate polio. Included in the toolkit are community mobilisation tools, monitoring and evaluation documents, training resources, and communication materials for a wide range of polio eradication approaches.

These resources are designed to inform, educate, organise, empower, and promote the work of thousands of community health workers who: support vaccination campaigns; conduct community-based acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance; promote routine immunisation; track the vaccination status of under-fives, newborns, and pregnant women; and mobilise communities to actively participate in immunisation services. Some of these tools are technical and organisational in scope, such as templates that keep track of activities and record findings during immunisation campaigns. Other tools are used to provide instruction or reinforce health information through interactive discussions; some learning tools are tailored to address low literacy and adapted to country or regional contexts.

While the tools were originally developed by and for CGPP countries over the years, the content of many of these tools can be adapted for practical application to support other health initiatives that aim at eliminating or reducing vaccine-preventable diseases.