Yavatmal District
Mobilization in villages using mic and speaker
Positive Learnings
- The presence of Doctor and AEFI kit during vaccination helps to gain the trust of people and convince them that COVID vaccine is safe to be administered.
- Involvement of local stakeholders, like ASHA, ANM, Sarpanch and other influential people played an important role in spreading the awareness about COVID vaccination.
Challenges
- Unavailability of people during the day time in villages was one of the challenge that we came across. To solve this, we organized late evening and early morning camps when people were available.
- Unavailability of people during the day time in villages was one of the challenge that we came across. To solve this, we organized late evening and early morning camps when people were available.
Presence of Doctor during vaccination
Beed District
Mobilizing people at marketplace
Positive Learnings
- Recruitment of local staff members enabled us to connect well with the communities and motivate them to get vaccinated.
- The strategy of 3 days’ prior community mobilization turned out to work very well as people had two days’ time in hand to plan their schedule accordingly.
Challenges
- During the agriculture season people did not turn out to get vaccinated, so we started vaccinating people by reaching out to them in fields where they worked.
- In case of children’s vaccination, parents were not ready to get their children vaccinated. We took help of the School teachers and principals to convince the parents.
Support of local stakeholders (ASHA, ANM, Anganwadi Worker)
Nanded District
Support of local stakeholders (ASHA, ANM, ANganwadi Worker, Sarpanch)
Positive Learnings
- Use of mic and speaker in community mobilization helped in mobilizing masses efficiently.
- Involvement of teachers in mobilizing parents for children’s vaccination worked out very well and we received a positive response from parents.
Challenges
- Lack of awareness about the COVID vaccine in rural and tribal communities was one of the major challenge in the district. We took help of the local stakeholders to create awareness.
Vaccination camp at school
Latur District
Support of local stakeholders in vaccination camp
Positive Learnings
- Vaccination camps at worksites like brick kilns, farms and construction sites helped to reach out to the left out people who are mostly the daily wage workers.
- Proper planning and mapping of villages helped us to vaccinate maximum number of beneficiaries in a day. We covered more than one villages in the same route in one day.
Challenges
- Late evening camps were not feasible in some villages, as people did not turn out to get vaccinated after coming back from work.
- The list of number of unvaccinated people did not match when we visited the villages as many people migrated to cities or other states for work.
Vaccinating migrant workers at brick kiln
Raigad District
Vaccination camp in a hard-to-reach village
Positive Learnings
- Support of Gram Panchayat members played a crucial role in convincing people to get vaccinated in the interiorly located tribal villages where people were not ready to get vaccinated due to several misconceptions about the vaccine.
Challenges
- Travelling to remote villages was a challenge due to the hilly topography. It took long hours to reach the remote villages.
Mobilizing people in a tribal village
Mumbai District
Mobilizing street vendors
Positive Learnings
- Support from local Corporators in mobilizing the communities residing in urban slums helped to convince people to get vaccinated and they also supported in managing crowd at vaccination camps.
Challenges
- Mobility in the slums due to overcrowding was a challenge for the team.
Vaccination camp in a school
Aurangabad District
Vaccinating brick kiln workers
Positive Learnings
- By conducting vaccination camps at worksites like sugarcane factory and brick kiln we were able to cover more number of people.
- Announcements in temples and mosques also helped us to get maximum beneficiaries.
Challenges
- Manual reporting was a task and a digital reporting system (app based) would make reporting easier.
- Vehicle broke down from time to time which delayed the work.
Vaccinating a vegetable vendor
Ahmednagar District
Support of local stakeholders in camp
Positive Learnings
- Micro planning and splitting of teams worked well to vaccinate maximum number of people.
- Late evening camp for sugarcane factory workers.
Challenges
- In some villages the list of unvaccinated people did not match as some people migrated from village for work.
- Vaccine hesitancy prevailed in some communities. Even after counselling multiple times only 10% people got convinced to get vaccinated from the community.
Late evening camps
Nashik District
Vaccinating a specially-abled man
Positive Learnings
- Circulation of flyers in Whatsapp groups of villages for mobilization worked very well to mobilize people.
- It was easy to convince people to get vaccinated due to presence of doctor and ambulance.
Challenges
- It was challenging to reach to some remote and hilly villages through ambulance.
- Vaccine hesitancy among tribal community. They told that they will get lifetime diseases if they get vaccinated. In spite of counselling several times, we were able to vaccinate only 10-20% people in some tribal villages.
Late evening camps
Dhule District
Involvement of local stakeholders
Positive Learnings
- Support of Principals and Teachers in mobilizing students and their parents.
- Weekly meeting was very helpful to understand the strategies applied by other teams. It was a good cross learning session. We often got the solutions of our problems through the cross learning session.
Challenges
- The number of unvaccinated people did not match when the team visited the villages as many people migrated to Gujrat for work. They returned back to villages during festival (Holi) when we vaccinated them.
- Travelling consumed more time as the terrain was hilly and hard to reach.
Vaccinating a truck driver in a dhaba
Pune District
People waiting to get vaccinated
Positive Learnings
- Inclusion of Corporators in mobilization.
- Crowd management by Corporators.
Challenges
- Unavailability of ID cards of some people, especially in slums.
- Unavailability of mobile numbers with some people.
Vaccinating a beneficiary
Thane District
Vaccinating a woman from tribal community
Positive Learnings
- Counselling worked as an important tool to convince people to get vaccinated especially in tribal locations.
- Worksite vaccination was a good strategy to cover more people.
Challenges
- Some villages were hard-to-reach.
- It was challenging to convince people to get vaccinated especially in tribal locations.
Community mobilization using mic and speaker
Satara District
Vaccination camp in slum
Positive Learnings
- Support of teachers in counselling and convincing parents to get their children vaccinated.
- Recruitment of local staff members made operations easy in the district.
Challenges
- Some parents did not agree to get their children vaccinated inspite of counselling.
- People were not available in houses during the day as they went to work.
Vaccination camp in a school
Ratnagiri District
Vaccination camp for daily wage workers
Positive Learnings
- Use of mic and speaker for mobilization was helpful for mobilizing many people at once.
- Vaccination camp at worksites were helpful to cover migrant workers.
Challenges
- It was difficult to convince people from a specific community to get vaccinated.
- Few villages were hard-to-reach and our team had to walk till those villages as the ambulance was unable to reach.
Vaccinating an old aged woman
Solapur District
Vaccinating a student
Positive Learnings
- Worksite vaccination camps for workers.
- Announcements from Mosques and Temples were useful to mobilize people.
Challenges
- People were not present at homes during the day as they went to work.
- Challenge in school vaccination as exams were going on.
Vaccinating an old aged woman
Jalgaon District
Vaccination camp in a hard-to-reach village
Positive Learnings
- Use of mic and speaker for mobilization.
- Camp at worksites, like farm and construction sites helped in maximum coverage.
Challenges
- It was challenging to convince some communities to get vaccinated (Tribal communities).
- Unavailability of people during the day in their houses as they went to work.
Vaccinating an old aged woman
Nandurbar District
Our team walking to the hard-to-reach villages where ambulance cannot reach
Positive Learnings
- Support of local stakeholders like ASHA, ANM, Anganwadi workers and Sarpanch.
- Use of mic and speaker for mobilization in villages where houses were scattered.
- Presence of Doctor and ambulance was an attractive point for convincing people to get vaccinated.
Challenges
- In many villages ambulance could not reach. Team had to walk till those hard-to-reach villages.
- It was challenging to convince people from tribal community to get vaccinated.
- Door-to-door vaccination was not possible as houses were scattered in most of the villages
- People were not present in their houses during the day as they went to work.
