Maternal and Child Survival Program Polio Communication Program Summary [Summary]

Summary

MCSP's polio communication work leaves a legacy of stronger polio communication programming in endemic and outbreak countries through:

• Expert technical advice
• Peer-reviewed research that is mostly from the underrepresented perspective of those working directly in the field
• Collaboration between agencies doing polio work
• A large body of publicly accessible and widely disseminated knowledge on polio communication
• Polio lessons shared with others working in health and other development sectors through papers, editorials, and blogs
• An easy-to-navigate, up-to-date website
• Two widely read newsletters with large subscriber bases
• A network of people working on polio communication who regularly access this knowledge and use it to improve their work

This work has been integrated so that each component reinforces the other—expert advice is supported by ongoing research and an evolving and widely disseminated knowledge base. This combination has become an important resource for the polio program and will leave a legacy of policy advice, research, and disseminated knowledge.

Editor's note: Above is part of an end-of-project report on the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP)'s work as part of a global 5-year cooperative agreement funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the global effort to eradicate poliomyelitis by providing expertise, research, and knowledge dissemination in communication. The full table of contents is here.

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