Course

As stated in the Strategic Orientations 2020-2023 “Community engagement strategies, active listening and involvement of patients and communities in the design, monitoring and implementation of our programs will become a cornerstone of our action. Our commitment with community-based interventions and support to health structures will be adapted to each individual context, giving priority to access and quality of care. Given the fact that health systems are mainly facility and hospital based, decentralised models of care will be instrumental to bring our action to the most in need and in the most hard-to-reach places. We will define and base our medical action on people-centred frameworks.”

 So how to do that? In this course you will learn the fundamentals to put that in practice.

Objectives

 In this course you will learn to:

• Understand WHY community engagement is key for a safe, relevant and culturally appropriate MSF response
• Recognize how having a planned community engagement strategy will have a direct impact on the PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• Recognize the community engagement is TRANSVERSAL and how it supports understanding the connection between local context and culture with morbidities and needs
• Recognize WHO to engage with and the difference between stakeholders and influencers
• Recognise the 4 layers of implementation of community engagement in a medico humanitarian context
• Identify the practical tips on implementation and get acquainted with tools available
• Recognize the roles of all project areas in community engagement

(pre requisist course)

Before starting, a quick reminder about the PCA and its key pillars: (You may want to do the short 1’5 hours online PCA course to clarify these concepts)

• ·         Understanding the impact of the crisis on the population,
• ·         Protection,
• ·         Person Centred Care,
• ·         DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion),
• ·         Ethics & Behaviour and
• ·         Community Engagement.

Duration of Course 3 hours

Target Audience

Open to all MSF staff.

if you are new to MSF or to CE, the objective now is to show communities that their opinion, lifestyles and capabilities are considered and valued to develop appropriate solutions within MSF mandate, principles and expertise. This will only happen with lot of willingness from MSF field staff, we count on you and we are here to build together.

Methodology

Online course - Selflearning

Certification

Participants will receive a certificate and a badge upon completion of all the modules of the program.

Enrolment

Self-enrollment i.e. you can enroll yourself by clicking on the Enroll Button

Module 1. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: WHAT, WHO, WHY- & HOW. 

Module 2: COMMUNITY ENGAGAMENT: TOPICS RELATED TO IMPLEMENTATION