#the_geneva_learning_foundation

The funding crisis solution hiding in plain sight
▻https://redasadki.me/2025/06/27/the-funding-crisis-solution-hiding-in-plain-sight

“I did not realize how much I could do with what we already have.” A Nigerian health worker’s revelation captures what may be the most significant breakthrough in #Global_health implementation during the current funding crisis. While organizations worldwide slash programs and lay off staff, a small Swiss non-profit, #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation (TGLF), is demonstrating how to achieve seven times greater likelihood of improved health outcomes while cutting costs by 90 percent. The secret lies not in new technology or additional resources, but in something deceptively simple: health workers learning from and supporting each other. #Nigeria: Two weeks to connect thousands, four weeks to change, and six weeks to outcomes On June 26, 2025, representatives from 153 #global_health and (...)

#economy_of_effort #peer_learning

When funding shrinks, impact must grow: the economic case for #peer_learning networks
▻https://redasadki.me/2025/06/17/when-funding-shrinks-impact-must-grow-the-economic-case-for-peer-learning-

Humanitarian, #Global_health, and development organizations confront an unprecedented crisis. Donor funding is in a downward spiral, while needs intensify across every sector. Organizations face stark choices: reduce programs, cut staff, or fundamentally transform how they deliver results. Traditional capacity building models have become economically unsustainable. Technical assistance, expert-led workshops, international travel, and venue-based training are examples of high-cost, low-volume activities that organizations can no longer afford. Yet the need for learning, coordination, and adaptive capacity has never been greater. The opportunity cost of inaction Organizations that fail to adapt face systematic disadvantage. Traditional approaches cannot survive current funding (...)

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #cost-benefit_analysis #funding_crisis #global_health #USAID #value_for_money

The business of #Artificial_intelligence and the #equity challenge
▻https://redasadki.me/2025/06/13/the-business-of-artificial-intelligence-and-the-equity-challenge

Since 2019, when #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation (TGLF) launched its first AI pilot project, we have been exploring how the #Second_Machine_Age is reshaping learning. Ahead of the release of the first framework for AI in global health, I had a chance to sit down with a group of Swiss business leaders at the PanoramAI conference in Lausanne on 5 June 2025 to share TGLF’s insights about the significance and potential of #Artificial_Intelligence for global health and humanitarian response. Here is the article posted by the conference to recap a few of the take-aways. The Global Equity Challenger At the Panoramai AI Summit, Reda Sadki, leader of The Geneva Learning Foundation, delivered provocative insights about AI’s impact on global equity and the future of human work. Drawing from (...)

#Raphaël_Briner

#Global_health: learning to do more with less
▻https://redasadki.me/2025/05/20/global-health-learning-to-do-more-with-less

In a climate of funding uncertainty, what if the most cost-effective investments in #global_health weren’t about supplies or infrastructure, but human networks that turn learning into action? We explore how peer learning networks that connect human beings to learn from and support each other can transform health outcomes with minimal resources. The common thread uniting the different themes below reveals a powerful principle for our resource-constrained era: structured peer learning networks consistently deliver outsized impact relative to their cost. Whether connecting health workers battling vaccine hesitancy in rural communities, maintaining essential immunization services during a global pandemic, supporting practitioners helping traumatized Ukrainian children, integrating AI tools (...)

#funding_crisis #global_donors #health_economics #health_financing #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

#peer_learning for Psychological First Aid: New ways to strengthen support for Ukrainian #children
▻https://redasadki.me/2025/03/06/peer-learning-through-psychological-first-aid-new-ways-to-strengthen-suppo

This article is based on Reda Sadki’s presentation at the #ChildHub “Webinar on Psychological First Aid for Children; Supporting the Most Vulnerable” on 6 March 2025. Learn more about the Certificate peer learning programme on Psychological First Aid (PFA) in support of children affected by the humanitarian crisis in #Ukraine. Get insights from professionals who support Ukrainian children. “I understood that if we want to cry, we can cry,” reflected a practitioner in the Certificate peer learning programme on Psychological First Aid (PFA) in support of children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine – illustrating the kind of personal transformation that complements technical training. During the ChildHub “Webinar on Psychological First Aid for Children; Supporting the Most (...)

#Writing #Certificate_peer_learning_programme_on_Psychological_First_Aid_PFA_in_support_of_children_affected_by_the_humanitarian_crisis_in_Ukraine #global_health #IFRC #International_Federation_of_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Societies_IFRC_ #MHPSS #Psychological_First_Aid_PFA_ #psychosocial_support #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

#AI_podcast explores surprising insights from health workers about HPV vaccination
▻https://redasadki.me/2025/02/26/ai-podcast-explores-surprising-insights-from-health-workers-about-hpv-vacc

This is an AI podcast featuring two hosts discussing an article by Reda Sadki titled “New Ways to Learn and Lead HPV Vaccination: Bridging Planning and Implementation Gaps.” The conversational format involves the AI hosts taking turns explaining key points and sharing insights about Sadki’s work on HPV vaccination strategies. While the conversation is AI-generated, everything is based on the published article and insights from the experiences of thousands of health workers participating in #Teach_to_Reach. #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation’s approach Throughout the podcast, the hosts explore how the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) has developed a five-step process to improve HPV vaccination implementation through their “Teach to Reach” program. This process involves: The hosts emphasize that (...)

#Global_health #Immunization_Agenda_2030 #India #ISAI #learning_culture #peer_learning

A #generative_AI #podcast dialogue exploring #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation’s progress in 2024
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/12/20/a-generative-ai-podcast-dialogue-exploring-the-geneva-learning-foundations

This experimental podcast, created in collaboration with generative AI, demonstrates a novel approach to exploring complex learning concepts through a conversational framework that is intended to support #dialogic learning. Based on TGLF’s 2024 end-of-year message and supplementary materials, the conversation examines their peer learning model through a combination of concrete examples and theoretical reflection. The dialogue format enables exploration of how knowledge emerges through structured interaction, even in AI-generated content. Experimental nature and limitations of generative AI for dialogic learning This content is being shared as an exploration of how generative AI might contribute to learning and knowledge construction. While based on TGLF’s actual 2024 message, the (...)

#Global_health #research #spoken_word #Year_in_review_2024

The cost of inaction: Quantifying the impact of climate change on #health
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/12/17/the-cost-of-inaction-quantifying-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-health

This #World_Bank report ‘The Cost of Inaction: Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’ presents new analysis of climate change impacts on health systems and outcomes in the regions that are bearing the brunt of these impacts. Key analytical insights to quantify climate change impacts on health The report makes three contributions to our understanding of climate-health interactions: First, it quantifies the massive scale of climate change impacts on health, projecting 4.1-5.2 billion climate-related disease cases and 14.5-15.6 million deaths in #LMICs by 2050. This represents a significant advancement over previous estimates, which the report demonstrates were substantial underestimates. Second, it illuminates the profound economic (...)

#Global_health #digital_learning #global_health #Juan_Pablo_Uribe #networked_learning #peer_learning #Tamer_Rabie #The_cost_of_inaction:_Quantifying_the_impact_of_climate_change_on_health #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

How can we reliably spread evidence-based practices at the speed and scale modern health challenges demand?
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/11/12/how-can-we-reliably-spread-evidence-based-practices-at-the-speed-and-scale

At a symposium of the #American_Society_for_Tropical_Medicine_and_Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting, I explored how #peer_learning could help us tackle five critical challenges that limit effectiveness in #Global_health. For epidemiologists working on #implementation_science, peer learning provides a new path for solving one of #global_health’s most persistent challenges: how to reliably spread evidence-based practices at the speed and scale modern health challenges demand. The evidence suggests we should view peer learning not just as a training approach, but as a mechanism for viral spread of effective practices through health systems. How do we get to #attribution? Of course, an epidemiologist will want to know if and how improved health outcomes can be attributed to peer learning (...)

#ASTMH #cascade_training #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #TropMed24

Teach to #REACH: New #leadership network connects health organizations tackling common challenges
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/11/05/teach-to-reach-new-leadership-network-connects-health-organizations-tackli

The Geneva Learning Foundation is launching REACH (Relate, Engage, Act, Connect, Help), a new initiative to connect leaders of health organizations who are solving similar problems in different countries. Launching November 6, REACH responds to an unexpected outcome of #Teach_to_Reach, a #peer_learning platform that–in less than four years–has already documented over 10,000 local solutions and experiences to health challenges by connecting more than 60,000 participants across 77 countries. When organizations began formally participating in Teach to Reach in June 2024, many leaders discovered they were tackling similar challenges. A digital immunization tracking system in Rwanda sparked interest from several African countries. A community engagement approach to vaccine hesitancy in Nigeria (...)

#Global_health #global_health #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

Making connections: #Ghana’s Alumni of #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation meet in Accra
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/10/30/making-connections-ghanas-alumni-of-the-geneva-learning-foundation-meet-in

The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) will host its first physical-world meeting of Ghana Scholars and Alumni on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in Accra. Seventy-two health professionals from across Ghana’s health system will participate in the evening event. The participants include staff from the Ghana Health Service, teaching hospitals, district health directorates, and non-governmental organizations. They represent all levels of the health system, with 8 working at the national level, 8 at regional facilities, 39 in district health services, and 13 in community-based programs. “This is a great opportunity for all health workers for impact,” says one participant, reflecting the anticipation among attendees. These professionals are alumni of TGLF’s programs, including the Movement for (...)

#Global_health #FGS #global_health #IA2030 #Movement_for_Immunization_Agenda_2030

Why participate in #Teach_to_Reach 11 ?
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/10/03/why-participate-in-teach-to-reach-11

In #Global_health, where challenges are as diverse as they are complex, we need new ways for health professionals to connect, learn, and drive change. Imagine a digital space where a nurse from rural Nigeria, a policymaker from India, and a WHO expert can share experiences, learn from each other, and collectively tackle global health challenges. That’s the essence of Teach to Reach. Welcome to Teach to Reach, a #peer_learning initiative launched in January 2021 by a collection of over 300 health professionals from Africa, Asia, and Latin America as they were getting ready to introduce COVID-19 vaccination. Four years later, the tenth edition of Teach to Reach on 20-21 June 2024 brought together an astounding 21,389 health professionals from over 70 countries. Discussion has expanded (...)

#continuous_learning #learning_culture #partnerships #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

The #Nigeria Immunization #Collaborative: what happened after just two weeks?
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/08/07/the-nigeria-immunization-collaborative-what-happened-after-just-two-weeks

Less than three weeks after its launch, the Nigeria Immunization Collaborative – a partnership between #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), and UNICEF – has already connected over 4,000 participants from all 36 states and more than 300 Local Government Areas (LGAs). The Collaborative is part of the Movement for #Immunization_Agenda_2030 (IA2030). In the Collaborative’s first #peer_learning exercise that concluded on 6 August 2024, over 600 participants conducted root cause analyses of immunization barriers in their communities. Participants engaged in a two-week intensive process of analyzing immunization challenges, conducting root cause analyses, and developing actionable plans to address these issues. They did this without having (...)

#Global_health #learning_culture #NPHCDA #root_cause_analysis #social_learning

Integrating #community-based_monitoring (CBM) into a comprehensive learning-to-action model
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/07/14/integrating-community-based-monitoring-cbm-into-a-comprehensive-learning-t

According to Gavi, “community-based monitoring” or “CBM” is a process where service users collect data on various aspects of health service provision to monitor program implementation, identify gaps, and collaboratively develop solutions with providers. By engaging service users, CBM aims to foster greater accountability and responsiveness to local needs. #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation’s innovative learning-to-action model offers a compelling framework within which CBM could be applied to #immunization challenges. The model’s comprehensive design creates an enabling environment for effectively integrating diverse monitoring data sources – and this could include community perspectives. #health_workers as trusted community advisers… and members of the community A distinctive feature of TGLF’s (...)

#Global_health #continuous_learning #global_health #HRH #Human_resources_for_health #Immunization_Agenda_2030 #learning_strategy #zero-dose_children #Zero-Dose_Learning_Hub_ZDLH_

#Semaine_mondiale_de_la_vaccination : Que voyez-vous ?
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/05/08/semaine-mondiale-de-la-vaccination-que-voyez-vous

English version | Version française Ceci est la préface de la nouvelle publication Les visages de la vaccination. En savoir plus… Télécharger la collection… Chaque jour, des milliers d’agents de santé, de l’Afghanistan au Zimbabwe, se lèvent et se rendent au travail avec un seul objectif en tête : faire en sorte que les vaccins parviennent à ceux qui en ont besoin. À l’occasion de la Semaine mondiale de la vaccination du 24 au 30 avril 2023 et du lancement de la campagne «  Big Catch Up  », la Fondation Apprendre Genève (TGLF) a invité les membres du Mouvement pour la vaccination à l’horizon 2030 (IA2030) à partager des photographies d’eux-mêmes et de leur travail quotidien. Plus de 1 000 témoignages visuels ont été partagés. Il ne s’agit pas de clichés soigneusement composés et techniquement élaborés par (...)

#Global_health #Writing #Chris_de_Bode #IA2030 #Immunization_Agenda_2030 #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #VaccinesWork #visual_storytelling #World_Immunization_Week

#World_Immunization_Week : What do you see ?
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/04/17/world-immunization-week-what-do-you-see

This is the preface of the new publication The many faces of immunization. Learn more… Download the collection… Every day, thousands of health workers, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, get up and go to work with a single goal in mind ­ to ensure that vaccines reach those who need them. To mark World Immunization Week 2023 (24­–30 April 2023) and the launch of the “Big Catch Up” campaign, #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation (TGLF) invited members of the Movement for #Immunization_Agenda_2030 (IA2030) to share photographs of themselves and their daily work. More than 1,000 visual stories were shared. These are not the carefully composed and technically accomplished shots of the professional photographer: rather, they capture a raw and authentic view of what immunization means in practice. The transport (...)

#Global_health #Chris_de_Bode #IA2030 #VaccinesWork #visual_storytelling

Become a #Teach_to_Reach 10 Partner: Help amplify frontline voices at the world’s largest health #peer_learning event
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/02/27/become-a-teach-to-reach-10-partner-help-amplify-frontline-voices-at-the-wo

The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to announce the tenth edition of Teach to Reach, to be held 20-21 June 2024. Teach to Reach is a massive, open peer learning event where health professionals network, and learn with colleagues from all over the world. Request your invitation… Teach to Reach 10 continues a tradition of groundbreaking peer learning started in 2020, when over 3,000 health workers from 80 countries came together to improve immunization training. 17,662 health professionals – over 80% from districts and facilities, half working for government – participated in Teach to Reach 9 in October 2023. Participants shared 940 experiences ahead of the event. See what we learned at Teach to Reach 9 or view Insights Live with Dr Orin Levine. Teach to Reach is a platform, (...)

#Events #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation #climate_change_and_health #Manifesto_for_global_health

Investing in the #health_workforce is vital to tackle #climate change: A new report shares insights from over 1,200 on the frontline
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/12/01/investing-in-the-health-workforce-is-vital-to-face-climate-change-a-new-re

Geneva, Switzerland (1 December 2023) – #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation has published a new report titled “On the frontline of climate change and health: A health worker eyewitness report.” The report shares first-hand experiences from over 1,200 health workers in 68 countries who are first responders already battling climate consequences on health. As climate change intensifies health threats, local health professionals may offer one of the most high-impact solutions. Charlotte Mbuh of The Geneva Learning Foundation, said: “Local health workers are trusted advisers to communities. They are first to observe health consequences of climate change, before the global community is able to respond. They can also be first to respond to limit damage to health.” “Health workers are already taking (...)

#Global_health #COP28 #press_release

How we reframed learning and development: learning-based complex work
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/11/04/how-we-reframed-learning-and-development-learning-based-complex-work

The following is excerpted from Watkins, K.E. and Marsick, V.J., 2023. Chapter 4. Learning informally at work: Reframing learning and development. In #Rethinking_Workplace_Learning_and_Development. Edward Elgar Publishing. This chapter’s final example illustrates the way in which organically arising IIL (informal and #incidental_learning) is paired with opportunities to build knowledge through a combination of structured education and #informal_learning by peers working in frequently complex circumstances. Reda Sadki, president of #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation (TGLF), rethought L&D for #immunization workers in many roles in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Adapting to technology available to participants from the countries that joined this effort, Sadki designed a mix of (...)

#About_me #Global_health #Interviews #Published_articles #complexity #Karen_E._Watkins #Performance_management #Victoria_J._Marsick #workforce_development

Teach to Reach: peer #learning at scale
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/09/01/teach-to-reach-peer-learning-at-scale

Teach to Reach are fast-paced, dynamic digital events connecting local and global practitioners to each other in a new, potentially transformative shared dialogue. Teach to Reach and other #TGLF special events rally thousands, serving as powerful moments of inspiration, providing the amazing sensation of being connected with thousands of fellow, like-minded people and the impetus to transform this feeling into shared purpose and action. Meet, network, and learn with colleagues from all over the world Successive editions of TGLF’s flagship event series, “Teach to Reach: Connect”, enabled a cumulative total of 27,000 health professionals to share experiences, test approaches, and identify solutions with international experts listening and learning with them. To learn more about the Geneva (...)

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

Learning from Front-line #health Workers in the #climate_change Era
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/07/22/learning-from-front-line-health-workers-in-the-climate-change-era

By #Julie_Jacobson, #Alan_Brooks, #Charlotte_Mbuh, and Reda Sadki The escalating threats of climate change cast long shadows over #Global_health, including increases in disease epidemics, profound impacts on mental health, disruptions to health infrastructure, and alterations in the severity and geographical distribution of diseases. Mitigating the impact of such shadows on communities will test the resilience of health infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and especially challenge front line health workers. The need for effective and cost-efficient public health interventions, such as immunization, will evolve and grow. Health workers, approximately 70% of which are women, that provide immunization and other health services will be trusted local resources to the (...)

#Writing #Bridges_to_Development #global_health #peer_learning #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation

Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale ?
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/06/09/pourquoi-un-manifeste-open-source-pour-la-sante-globale

Read this in English : Why an open-source manifesto for #Global_health ? La communauté mondiale de la vaccination se concentre désormais sur le « grand rattrapage », en priorisant le rétablissement des services de vaccination suite aux conséquences de la pandémie de COVID-19, alors que les pays—et le personnel de la vaccination en première ligne—s’efforcent d’atteindre les objectifs du Programme pour la vaccination à l’horizon 2030 (IA2030). Lors de la soixante-quatorzième Assemblée mondiale de la santé, le directeur général de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé avait lancé un appel en faveur d’un « vaste mouvement social pour la vaccination qui veillera à ce que la vaccination reste une priorité dans les programmes de santé internationaux et régionaux et contribuera à susciter une vague de soutien ou un (...)

#The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation ##TheBigCatchUp #français #global_health #Immunization_Agenda_2030 #Manifesto_for_global_health

Credible knowers
▻https://redasadki.me/2023/03/21/credible-knowers

“Some individuals are acknowledged as credible knowers within #Global_health, while the knowledge held by others may be given less credibility.” – (Himani Bhakuni and Seye Abimbola in The Lancet, 2021) “Immunization Agenda 2030” or “IA2030” is a strategy that was unanimously adopted at the World Health Assembly in 2020. The global community that funds and supports vaccination globally is now exploring what it needs to do differently to transform the Agenda’s goal of saving 50 million lives by the end of the decade into reality. Last year, over 10,000 national and sub-national health staff from 99 countries pledged to achieve this goal when they joined #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation’s first #IA2030 learning and action research programme. Discover what we learned in Year 1… Learn more about the (...)

#Thinking_aloud #Immunization_Agenda_2030 #learning_culture #learning_strategy #Primary_Health_Care_PHC_ #Teach_to_Reach #The_Double_Loop #Universal_Health_Care_UHC_

How we make sense of complexity, together, at #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation
▻https://redasadki.me/2022/09/25/how-we-make-sense-of-complexity-together-at-the-geneva-learning-foundation

Unique #learning experiences generate not just data points but complex stories about what it takes to make change actually happen. By connecting the dots between ideas and implementation, we can zero in on the highest-value insights. Our Insights Unit uses the latest advances in learning analytics to map how ideas and practices shared between countries and system levels make a difference. The Unit facilitates international partners to work hand-in-hand with local practitioners. In addition to thousands of local practitioners contributing and using insights to drive shared learning and action, our Insights Unit’s work is being used by leading global agencies. Examples include: Effective strategies to overcome vaccine hesitancy in districts and health facilities (BMGF) Motivation of local (...)

#TGLF

Reinventing the path from #knowledge to #action in #Global_health
▻https://redasadki.me/2022/10/12/reinventing-the-path-from-knowledge-to-action-in-global-health

At #The_Geneva_Learning_Foundation (TGLF), we have just begun to share a publication like no other. It is titled Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers. You can access the full report here in French and in English. Short summaries are also available in three special issues of The Double Loop, the Foundation’s free Insights newsletter, now available in both English and French. The report, prefaced by Heidi Larson who leads the Vaccine Confidence Project, includes DOI to facilitate citation in academic research. (The Foundation uses a repository established and maintained by the Geneva-based CERN for this purpose.) However, knowing that academic papers have (arguably) an average of three readers, we have (...)

#Learning_strategy #Chris_Argyris #continuous_learning #double-loop_learning #Immunization_Agenda_2030 #knowledge_management #repositories