AFRiSC

AFRiSC strengthens the capacities of CAV professionals

The mobile application is developed at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO) – Africa Regional Office (AFRO). AFRiSC is a learning application designed to improve the knowledge and skills of vaccine supply chain (CAV) agents and logisticians in 47 African countries. It allows users to access micro-learning capsules developed according to the guidelines of WHO, UNICEF, People that Deliver, etc. Thanks to the application, users can immerse themselves in a team culture via the forum and the social network, expand their knowledge via the knowledge library.

VCC staff at all levels of the health system in 47 countries in the WHO AFRO region:

• CAV managers

• Logisticians

• Cold chain technicians

• Storekeepers

• Members of the National Logistics Group

• Technical Partners - Countries

How does AFRiSC help WHO AFRO address growing challenges and work towards more equitable access to routine immunization and new vaccines to protect children against preventable diseases?

In the WHO African Region, countries and partners have implemented various immunization training programs, but recent EVM assessments have revealed the need to continue training and retraining VCC staff. The main challenges are currently highlighted to achieve high staff performance in the field of CAV: standard training content without taking into account the various skill requirements, expensive, long and repeated training for the high number of staff in the CAV.

The app, an innovative solution to deliver appropriate on-the-job learning, offers the following benefits:

• Encourage close contact between CAV staff in country to enable quick and easy support if needed.

• Promote a culture of peer-to-peer learning through the forum and social network to share each other's experiences and address CAV challenges.

• Facilitate the learning process by providing easily digestible and accessible micro-learning capsules based on the main VLC resources: guidelines, tools, reports, etc.

Main features of the AFRiSC application

My apprenticeship

• Access to a specific assessment of self-training/knowledge verification needs according to the workstations and in accordance with the corresponding training path

• Access to all m-learning modules and capsules

• Collecting badges at the end of the capsules

• User evaluation of the capsules (user experience feedback and overview of the user experience)

• Obtaining a certificate at the end of the learning path

My knowledge library

• Access to a database of key VCC resources selected by WHO: guidelines, tools, reports, etc.

• Document download and sharing function

My network

• Profile and contact management

• My newsfeed and my publications

• Forums

• My Dashboard

Home page

• Access to the latest institutional news as well as publications from colleagues.

• Publication on the news feed

Notification

• Activity reminders

• Content update notifications

• Notifications of activities on posts or contacts

instant message

• Private chat between two people

• Group chat

• Access to the directory of all users of the application

• Search functions

This is the beta version for the pilot test. Feedback during and after the pilot test will contribute to the finalization of the application.

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