Thank you Ford for sharing this excellent paper.
I totally agree with you that to make measurable contribution to health-related issues, it is more fruitful to implement fewer initiatives reaching larger scale of population. Mobilizing community and national media around child survival issues, listening to care givers and engaging them will have great impact on empowering care givers and building their ownership towards the health of their children. This approach will be helpful specially in the remaining countries with indigenous circulation of wild polio virus in order to achieve polio eradication. The PEI succeeded in involving different community sectors in the programme, specially school students and religious leaders, yet I believe that through implementing the strategy you suggested, focusing on partnership development at community level involving and mobilizing all the networks to engage care givers, community workers, school teachers and students, scouts and religious leaders will be even more effective. In this respect, I may suggest involving women organizations also, specially to support out reach teams in conservative communities to reach and communicate with care givers who are mostly females (mother or grand mother)

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Ahmed Darwish