Introducing Quick Links: Polio Communication Resources from The Communication Initiative for Pakistan and Afghanistan

Hi Everyone,

At the most recent TAG meetings and also in recent discussions with a number of you over the course of communication reviews it was mentioned that finding background materials can be difficult especially given the enormous pressures everyone engaged in implementing the programme works under.  There are a number of quite extensive repositories of information on polio communication such as the GPEI website library, UNICEFs Rhizome C4D site and The Polio Network site of The Communication Initiative.  However, it can be difficult to find time from your work to go through what can be dauntingly large sets of resources to identify what’s there and put your finger on what you need quickly.

This email introduces a small experiment from The Communication Initiative that might help make this more manageable while also providing some insight into what’s available.  The intent is to focus on high priority issues for the programme and to keep the suggested content and the number and length of these emails limited.  Ultimately, each of you are the only ones who can decide if any of this is useful but I thought it might be worth a few emails to see if we could help provide digestible bits of timely and useful information.

First, let me say that I know how many emails each of you get and how you need to prioritise. This will be informal and correspondence will be limited and brief.  In fact this is by far the longest note I foresee sending.  I’ve developed an initial mailing list of a small number of people working in, or in support of, the Afghanistan and Pakistan programmes to start.  It is a list that can grow if this is seen as useful and can be turned into a discussion group in future that will archive content and contributions.  I’ve identified a few issues and content to start but I am hoping that you look at it as a tool that you can interact with.  If you are looking for something specific on an issue you’re working on send us a query and we’ll see what we can find that’s relevant.  Equally, if there’s an issue you think we should cover that we haven’t let us know and we’ll look for content and include it next time round.

As a way of keeping emails to a minimum can I suggest that you avoid using Reply All unless you want everyone in the group to read your response.  If we decide at a later date to move this to a group discussion format (which will involve registering) there are individual controls you can place on the timing and flow of communication.

This is a heads up note.  I’ll be back in in a few days with a note focused on making better use of data.

Cheers

Chris

For more information see:

CI Polio Network

GPEI Resources

UNICEFs Rhizome C4D site