Surveillance à base communautaire
Organizational Context
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a United Nations agency dedicated to promoting health, ensuring global safety, and serving vulnerable populations. WHO leads efforts in universal health coverage, coordinates responses to health emergencies, and promotes healthier lives across all age groups. The organization aims to achieve ambitious global health targets through science-based policies and programs, working worldwide to improve health and well-being.
Job Purpose
This role supports the World Health Organization (WHO) in Obock, Djibouti, focusing on strengthening community-based surveillance (CBS) among Yemeni refugees. The assignment aims to bridge the gap between refugee communities, health structures, and partners to ensure early detection of health alerts, promote vaccination and maternal/child health, and facilitate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) referrals. The volunteer will work closely with community leaders and health workers, upholding humanitarian principles and confidentiality to address health challenges in the Markazi camp, where conditions are difficult and many refugees arrive with unmet health needs.
Responsibilities
The volunteer will conduct community-based surveillance in the Markazi camp and Obock locality, identifying and engaging refugee community focal points. Responsibilities include supporting training on simplified case definitions, maintaining alert registers, and reporting daily to the team leader, including zero reports. The role involves community outreach for health information dissemination on vaccination, maternal/child health, hygiene, cholera prevention, and MHPSS. The volunteer will assist in identifying newly arrived refugees, vulnerable individuals, and mapping refugee sites and population movements. They will also verify vaccination status, refer zero-dose and under-vaccinated children for immunization, and support follow-up. Additionally, the volunteer will identify pregnant refugees for prenatal care, promote maternal and child health services, provide psychological first aid, and refer complex cases for specialized support. The role includes collecting refugee feedback, ensuring data quality, and adhering to protection principles like child safeguarding and PSEA.
Work Experience
No prior experience is required. However, at least one year of relevant experience in community health work, surveillance, or health promotion is desirable. Experience working with refugee populations is a plus. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work with diverse communities, basic data collection and reporting skills, and proficiency in MS Office are also beneficial.
Skills
Key competencies include responsibility, adaptability, flexibility, creativity, judgment, decision-making, planning, organization, professionalism, and self-management. Expertise in community development is also sought. The volunteer must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work with diverse communities, and basic data collection and reporting capabilities.