Involving Local Communities in Fighting AI:

CARE Vietnam's Community-based Surveillance Model: Bringing the Fight to the Flu

...examines how the surveillance model operated at the time of a June 2007 AI outbreak in the project area (Tien Minh commune, within Haiphong municipality in northeast Vietnam). CARE concludes that "[t]he newly established community-based surveillance network detected the outbreak early, setting in motion rapid response activities that quickly contained it"...

Emergency Communication Workshop

...22 participants from a community in Ghana that has experienced emergencies such as avian influenza and flooding met to introduce a communication framework. This framework was largely centred around the design of a telephone tree assembled to help the community plan and carry out an emergency communication system...

Community-Based Avian Influenza Control (CBAIC) Project

...local participation is facilitated through coordination of village- and community-level training activities for disease surveillance and response, as well as through behaviour change communication, in this Indonesian project. Organisers say that the involvement of local partners has been crucial, as their community structures and resources "accelerated training and the dissemination of key messages"...

Bridging the Gap between Awareness and Practice: Participatory Learning of Rural Beliefs and Practices on HPAI Prevention and Response in Cambodia

...sensitivity to local context was key in this effort to directly involve communities in the development of avian influenza policies and practices that will affect them. Participatory small group discussions were held in "natural" settings for community gatherings and generally took place outdoors in the shade of a tree, in a public space like a pagoda or schoolhouse, or in the shade under someone's house...