NGOs and Other Partners

Many youth and service clubs contributed extensively to the programme. For instance, the Boy Scouts, whose leader was a senior secretary in the government, inaugurated their own immunization badge. The Girl Guides arranged to have their headquarters used as an immunization site. Rotary International joined hands With UNICEF and the World Health Organization in 1984. Providing all of the polio vaccines needed to immunize the children of Bangladesh through its Polio Plus programme. There are 72 Rotary Clubs in Bangladesh with a total membership of the moni logo at the head of a parade of school children.

2000 representing various profession as well as the commercial for, A Bangladesh Polio Plus national Immunization Committee was formed and both members rotary and Rotaract, the youth wing contributed to service delivery, educational seminar. Rallies walkathons, parades and other awareness-creation and mobilization actives materialized.
The national Anti Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh an new was contracted to print and place monition plates on the back of rickshaws all over the country to put stickers and posters on ferries. Bused and trains and to distribute Epi slides to many cinema halls. The Voluntary Health Services Society an umbrella group for smaller national NGOS played a major role in publishing Tika-Dak the official newsletter of the programme, and Tika-Barta the statistical bulletin. They also held rallies and fora to promote Epi and trained NGOS in how to carry out Epi activities.
In addition to the above allies, many NGO operational partners joined the Epi programme: Worldview International Foundation. World Vision Radda Barnen and a host of other agencies, large and small. Strengthened the immunization programme throughout the country, providing training for vaccinators, managers and communicators: providing immunization services in areas where Government services cannot easily reach providing many of the communication materials and actives which supported programme expansion: and mobilizing local talent and resources. It is doubtful that the immunization programme could have achieved its rapid rise in coverage without the strong support of both large and small NGOS throughout Bangladesh. Although some of the activities involved contracts, many more happened because people wanted to join with the programme and integrate it with their own. This was quite surprising for traditionally. NGOS are quite competitive in Bangladesh and often do not see eye-to-eye with Government. Even more surprising is the fact that they remained involved through the difficult period that last three months of 1990, when the President was being overthrown by a popular uprising. This is because the process of advocacy and social mobilization had taken immunization beyond the political sphere to the point where it had come to belong to the people as a whole.

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