Addressing gender bias in Sierra Leone through community action and teacher training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Leer
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Community Action

scholarly journals Community engagement in outbreak response: lessons from the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. e002145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Bedson ◽  
Mohamed F Jalloh ◽  
Danielle Pedi ◽  
Saiku Bah ◽  
Katharine Owen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Engagement Interventions ◽  
Over Time

Documentation of structured community engagement initiatives and real-time monitoring of community engagement activities during large-scale epidemics is limited. To inform such initiatives, this paper analyses the Community Led Ebola Action (CLEA) approach implemented through the Social Mobilization Action Consortium (SMAC) during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. The SMAC initiative consisted of a network of 2466 community mobilisers, >6000 religious leaders and 42 local radio stations across all 14 districts of Sierra Leone. Community mobilisers were active in nearly 70% of all communities across the country using the CLEA approach to facilitate community analysis, trigger collective action planning and maintain community action plans over time. CLEA was complemented by interactive radio programming and intensified religious leader engagement.Community mobilisers trained in the CLEA approach used participatory methods, comprised of an initial community ‘triggering’ event, action plan development and weekly follow-ups to monitor progress on identified action items. Mobilisers collected operational and behavioural data on a weekly basis as part of CLEA. We conducted a retrospective analysis of >50 000 weekly reports from approximately 12 000 communities from December 2014 to September 2015. The data showed that 100% of the communities that were engaged had one or more action plans in place. Out of the 63 110 cumulative action points monitored by community mobilisers, 92% were marked as ‘in-progress’ (85%) or ‘achieved’ (7%) within 9 months. A qualitative examination of action points revealed that the in-progress status was indicative of the long-term sustainability of most action points (eg, continuous monitoring of visitors into the community) versus one-off action items that were marked as achieved (eg, initial installation of handwashing station). Analysis of behavioural outcomes of the intervention indicate an increase over time in the fraction of reported safe burials and fraction of reported cases referred for medical care within 24 hours of symptom onset in the communities that were engaged.Through CLEA, we have demonstrated how large-scale, coordinated community engagement interventions can be achieved and monitored in real-time during future Ebola epidemics and other similar epidemics. The SMAC initiative provides a practical model for the design, implementation and monitoring of community engagement, integration and coordination of community engagement interventions with other health emergency response pillars, and adaptive strategies for large-scale community-based operational data collection.

scholarly journals Gender bias in the Erasmus network of universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca De Benedictis ◽  
Silvia Leoni
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Male Students ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
University Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

Abstract The Erasmus Program (EuRopean community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), the most important student exchange program in the world, financed by the European Union and started in 1987, is characterized by a strong gender bias. Female students participate to the program more than male students. This work quantifies the gender bias in the Erasmus program between 2008 and 2013, using novel data at the university level. It describes the structure of the program in great detail, carrying out the analysis across fields of study, and identifies key universities as senders and receivers. In addition, it tests the difference in the degree distribution of the Erasmus network along time and between genders, giving evidence of a greater density in the female Erasmus network with respect to the one of the male Erasmus network.

Community Action Teacher Training in Special Education

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 495-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Berdine ◽  
Deborah S. Knapp ◽  
James W. Tawney ◽  
Melton C. Martinson
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Community Action

scholarly journals Community Engagement during outbreak response: standards, approaches, and lessons from the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Bedson ◽  
Mohamed F. Jalloh ◽  
Danielle Pedi ◽  
Saiku M. Bah ◽  
Katharine Owen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
List Type ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Outbreak Response

Summary pointsThe Social Mobilization Action Consortium (SMAC) was Sierra Leone’s largest coordinated community engagement initiative during the 2014 - 2016 Ebola outbreak. It worked in all 14 districts in Sierra Leone across >12,000 communities (approximately 70% of all communities), through 2,466 trained Community Mobilizers, a network of 2,000 mosques and churches, and 42 local radio stations.We describe SMAC’s Theory of Change and utilization of the Community-Led Ebola Action (CLEA) approach. We present an extensive dataset of community engagement and monitoring with a focus on over 50,000 SMAC weekly reports collected by Community Mobilizers between December 2014 and September 2015.Community engagement and real-time data collection at scale is achievable in the context of a health emergency if adequately structured, managed, coordinated and resourced.We describe a correlation between systemic community engagement, community action planning and Ebola-safe behaviors at community-level.The SMAC integrated approach demonstrates the scope of data – including surveillance data - that can be generated directly by communities through structured community engagement interventions implemented at scale during an Ebola outbreak.We highlight important insights gleaned over time on how to informally integrate social mobilization into community-based surveillance of sick people and deaths.

Teacher training in graduate endodontic programs

1981 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 591-592
Author(s):  
W Burrell ◽  
MM Lee
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training

Effect of Teacher Training Sessions on Listener Perception of Voice Disorders

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. DeGregorio ◽  
Nancy Gross Polow
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
School System ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Bergen County ◽  
Experimental Group

The present study was designed to investigate the effect of teacher training sessions on listener perception of voice disorders. Three ASHA certified speech-language pathologists provided the criteria mean. Thirty randomly selected teachers from a Bergen County school system, randomly placed into two groups, served as subjects. The experimental group received three training sessions on consecutive weeks. Three weeks after the end of training, both groups were given a posttest. Listener perception scores were significantly higher for the experimental group. The implications of these results for in-service workshops, teacher/speech-language pathologist interaction and future research are discussed.

Abolition in Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Peter Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone
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