Covid-19 training July 2021

The students of the National Advanced School of Public Works of Yaounde took part in a "Training seminar for peer educator students in preventive measures against Covid-19" organized by the Ministry of Higher Education in the meeting room of the NASPW from July 15 to 16, 2021

Throughout this seminar, it was a question of training these students on the following points:

• - How to sensitize the student community, administrative staff, and security personnel;
• - Make people aware of the benefits of the Covid-19 vaccine;
• - How to approach the different social layers through interpersonal communication, communication for behavior change and communication on the risks associated with Covid-19;
• - Initiation to community engagement strategies in the context of Covid-19;
• - Presentation of the COVID-19 management guide on the Campus;
• - How to establish an action plan to fight Covid-19.

To achieve this, several means have been indicated to them:

• - Educational talk;
• - Home visit ;
• - Visit to the communities;
• - Visit within families.

During these two days, the students were subjected to the following activities:

First day (Thursday July 15, 2021)

• - Presentation of training modules
• - General information on the Covid-19 pandemic
• - Risks related to Covid-19 in the Campus and prevention - Discussions
• - The major problems linked to Covid-19
• - Barrier measures and barrier gesture: what's the difference? Exchanges
• - Vaccination against Covid-19: good to know
• - Pre - test results - Exchanges
• - Basics of peer education - Exchanges
• - Guiding principles of peer education
• - Summary

Second day (Friday July 16, 2021)

• - Reading of the D1 report
• - Presentation of the guide for managing Covid-19 on campuses: Community engagement and the role of peer educators - Discussions
• - Initiation to community engagement strategies in the Covid-19 context
• - Communication for behavior change
• - Communication on the risks (communication tools)
• - Application of risk communication in the context of Covid-19
• - General report.