Week 1 Community Assignment (GRISP)

Country of focus: Papua New Guinea (PNG) – Vaccinator and manager skills.

Selected transformative investment: Vaccinator capacity: Invest in vaccinators and district managers by regularly and systematically building their capacity, strengthening their performance and providing supportive supervision

Strategies that relate to the transformative investment:

1. Ensure ongoing refresher and in-service training and performance improvement

of vaccinators and peripheral managers and supervisors

2. Promote staff motivation

3. Track capacity building and ongoing training needs of staff

4. Develop and disseminate up-to-date pre-service immunization training

packages

5. Establish a culture, process and budget for supportive supervision and

mentorship throughout the programme

6. Train supervisors in supervisory skills

7. Use remote and individual learning (eLearning)

8. Develop training material using adult learning principles

9. Establish a network of mentoring

The three strategies you have prioritized.

1. Ensure ongoing refresher and in-service training and performance improvement

of vaccinators and peripheral managers and supervisors

2. Establish a culture, process and budget for supportive supervision and

mentorship throughout the programme

3. Train supervisors in supervisory skills

WHY I selected the above mentioned transformative investment in relation to Papua New Guinea (PNG) context:

“Health workers and managers lack clarity on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They do not receive adequate supervision or on-the-job training” - PNG–Australia Health Delivery Strategy 2011–2015.

The recent outbreak of Polio in PNG, 18 years after the country was declared “Polio Free”, has highlighted, once again, the poor quality of Routine Immunization (RI) service delivery (and subsequent low coverage and herd immunity) in the Country.

A major contribution to the poor quality of Routine Immunization service delivery, in PNG, is the poor capacity of the RI Service Providers.

This transformative investment seeks to improve the capacity oy the Service Provider, through the above priority services.