Tumaini Rechnold Kombe

Company Overview: Bauchi Lassa Fever Emergency Project, Nigeria

• Developing and updating of health promotion and community engagement strategy to align with current context (objectives, target population, key activities, indicators, results, monitoring, etc.).
• Performing qualitative assessments of knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to Lassa Fever in most affected Local Government Areas (LGAs) to gain comprehensive understanding of disease within community, including perceptions and current practices, and to align health promotion activities and key messages with findings.
• Daily follow-up and closer supportive supervision of HPCE activities with HP supervisor and PMR in all LGAs where MSF supports SmoH (State Ministry of Health) led Lassa Fever Response.
• Creating training plan, schedule, and materials for HPCE supervision team based on identified gaps in knowledge and skills during supportive supervision, with approval from PMR.
• Collaborating with medical and non medical team members as part of outreach and Rapid Response team during community outreach activities in hot spots.
• Preparing weekly and monthly situation reports regarding HPCE activities within community, transit centers, and LFTC.
• Collaborating with t State Ministry of Health regarding recruitment, reduction, and reallocation of community health workers (CHW) in community, transit centers, and LFTC to strengthen MSF action
• Engaging community leaders, including village elders and chiefs, as well as religious leaders such as Sheikh/Imams and Pastors, along with other influential figures like traditional healers, during health promotion activities in community and transit centers through regular monthly or quarterly review meetings and workshops.
• Bauchi Lassa Fever Emergency Project, Nigeria
• Improved team morale with regular staff training and development sessions.

• Company Overview: Bekaa Emergency Project, LEBANON
• Develop and implement health promotion strategy tailored to cholera outbreak, focusing on prevention and early treatment seeking behavior in three Syrian refugees’ camps in Arsal, Hermel/Masheria al Qaa and neighbor Lebanese host population surrounding camps.
• Coordinate and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams (e.g. WASH, medical, logistics) in Emergency intervention and regular project to align health promotion strategy with broader outbreak control measures under direct supervision of Junior PMR.
• Developing and distribution of health promotional education materials (e.g. flyers, posters, oral messages) addressing cholera preventive measures and treatment options to target population both inside camp and neighbor Lebanese host population surrounding camps.
• Referral forms, weekly reports and other data collection tools are effectively utilized by community health educators and accurately completed prior to submission within designated timeframe and drafting monthly situational reports summarizing progress, challenges and outcomes.
• Recruit, train and supervise health promotion teams, ensuring are equipped with relevant and updated knowledge and necessary tools to enable them to deliver accurate cholera related health messages to target population and provide ongoing support and mentorship to team members.
• Bekaa Emergency Project, LEBANON

• Company Overview: Mombasa Adolescent Youth and Young Key Population Project, KENYA
• Develop and update overall Health Promotion and Community Engagement (HPCE) strategy, including objectives, target populations, key activities, indicators, results, monitoring, and chronogram of activities, as well as managing HPCE budget.
• Assess needs of target population and develop, adapt, and pre-test Health Promotion (HP) materials to ensure are culturally appropriate, relevant, and well-understood by target group.
• Coordinate and supervise community components of entire program with focus on most vulnerable Young Key population (LGBTQI+, Street population, Female sex workers, PWUD and Men who have sex with men).
• Design tools to track HPCE activities, monitor their impact, and ensure accurate reporting of achievements, challenges, and plans in project and monthly reports.
• Work closely with Project medical referent, medical team, Community based Organizations and other stakeholders, including counterparts, to integrate HPCE activities into broader project.
• Focus on working together as partners with patients, communities, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that most vulnerable are targeted. Focus on implementation of adapted strategies for YKPs to ensure access.
• Organize training schedules and build capacity of health promotion team through proper coaching and mentoring.
• Ensure health promotion activities are routinely and accurately reported, including monthly reports and participation in Mission Health Promotion, Community Engagement (HPCE).
• Mombasa Adolescent Youth and Young Key Population Project, KENYA

• Company Overview: Nduta Project, Kigoma Region. TANZANIA
• Planning and supervising HR associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development and internal communication) of more than 100 IEC / HP staff of project.
• Ensure PEC activities are integrated in package of care for patients with chronic conditions. Regular Focus Groups discussions at Hospital level for chronic diseases clients are established in collaboration with medical team, PEC team is trained and coached to improve quality of service provided and Patient’s adherence clubs are implemented in camp.
• Liaising with other relevant actors (national and International NGO’s, authorities) during mass campaigns and distributions example vaccination campaigns, outbreaks interventions etc. to reach common goal of reducing morbidity and saving lives.
• Develop systematic referral pathway of referring Sexual and gender-based victims from community to medical team for treatment according SGBV protocols.
• Prepared variety of different health education materials including flip charts, fliers, posters and key messages, to ensure health promotion team use contextualized and relevant health education materials.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships with religious, camp leaders and other Key members of community to ensure are participating in decision making and planning of all health promotion activities across Nduta refugees’ camp.
• Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies to continuously improve quality of health promotion activities through on job trainings, demonstrations and individual assignments.
• Nduta Project, Kigoma Region. TANZANIA

• Company Overview: UmRakuba Project, Gedaref State. SUDA
• Assess, define, implement, coordinate and monitor all Health Promotion (IEC) activities in Um Rakuba refugees camp project, by assessing knowledge of target group on health risk, promoting MSF services, increasing knowledge of target population around their health, support of preventive activities and collaboration to improve services, and managing staff involved in activity according to MSF principles, protocols and values.
• Define and update HP/IEC and community engagement strategy and related activities of project, and ensure strategy corresponds to current project activities.
• Assess, develop and adapt IEC/HP materials according to needs of project.
• Train and build capacity of CHWs (key topics include ANC, FP, PNC, covid-19 and other respiratory tract infections, malaria, malnutrition, cholera, diarrhea, skin and soft tissue infections and non-communicable diseases).
• Carry out regular visits and hold meetings with community leaders, authorities and other actors in refugee camp and surrounding villages for identification of challenges, follow ups and problem resolution while building effective networks with partners in close collaboration with PMR.
• Ensure regular collaboration and coordination with MSF medical team, to guarantee that HP is part of medical activities and contribute to medical objectives of project through provision of feedback to all operational departments: Medical, including MH.
• Supervise and train national partner NGO to ensure proper implementation monitoring and evaluation of their tasks, this includes surveillance as well as health promotion activities in host community.
• Plan and supervise HR associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development and internal communication). This will be done in close coordination with HR department, administration manager and project medical referent and according to MSF vision, values and procedures.
• UmRakuba Project, Gedaref State. SUDA

• Company Overview: SAUTI KVP Project — Mbeya Region, TANZANIA
• Increase Health services uptake and accessibility of comprehensive community care and treatment services to Key vulnerable people (Site identification, Hotspot selection and demand creation for Key vulnerable people and communities) to uptake Community based HIV testing services.
• Work in close collaboration with regional, district, ward, community officials, and Key vulnerable people peer leaders to ensure that communities in intervention areas are strongly linked to Community based HIV testing services.
• Supervised linkages between Community based HIV testing services and follow up care of clients in community including HIV care and treatment, Sexual transmitted infections services, Tuberculosis referrals, GBV referrals, and drug and alcohol referrals, involves assisting in tracking and tracing of clients and their contacts.
• Collaborated with Regional and District Health Management team in preparation of monthly schedule, preparation of outreach implementation, monthly budgeting and monthly report writing.
• Established effective linkages between Key vulnerable people (Sex workers, Men who have sex with men, People who inject/use drugs, Transgender) and Community based HIV testing services to ensure maximum utilization of services.
• SAUTI KVP Project — Mbeya Region, TANZANIA