Immunization

Conducted in collaboration with NHM and UNICEF, this workshop officially launched the project and brought together state health officials, development partners, and VHAI’s team to plan effective social and behaviour change (SBC) interventions for improving immunization coverage.

Comprehensive trainings were organized to enhance the team’s understanding of immunization, vaccine hesitancy, and SBC approaches, enabling them to effectively engage and mobilize communities.

Orientation sessions were held with district and block officials, health workers, and frontline staff to identify local challenges, strengthen coordination mechanisms, and plan targeted interventions for better outreach.

Extensive social mapping was conducted in low-performing and hard-to-reach areas to identify social and geographical barriers to immunization and design locally appropriate strategies.

Community Core Groups were formed, involving SHGs, PRIs, buddy mothers, traditional healers, and religious leaders to promote vaccine acceptance, address misconceptions, and support community-led mobilization. The identified influencers and community groups were trained and linked to the identified Zero-dose and missed children to mobilize them for immunization.

Village-level committees were oriented to prioritize immunization in their agendas and actively support the identification and mobilization of left-out and dropout children.

Frontline health workers including ANMs, ASHAs, and AWWs were oriented on technical aspects of immunization, identification of zero-dose children, and collaboration with community networks.

Regular community meetings, male engagement activities, House hold visits, IPC, Rallies and advocacy efforts were undertaken to build trust, dispel myths, and ensure that every eligible child is reached with life-saving vaccines. Events like felicitation of parents of fully immunized children was conducted to motivate other parents for immunization of their children.