Want to relive some of your favorite NNN 2020 Conference moments or watch sessions you were unable to attend? On this page, you can access recordings of the workshop, rapid fire, and plenary sessions and download the presentation slides for most. Please reference the agenda page for more information on individual sessions.
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As the WHO prepares to launch a new WHO Road Map for NTDs, 2021 - 2030, the 11th NNN annual conference looks to deepen the NTD NGO’s communities understanding and build capacity to deliver the paradigm shifts laid by the new road map, to achieve an ambitious collective vision to end NTDs. At the heart of the road map is a core understanding of our collective contributions from the NTD community and the cross-sectoral approaches and partnership needed to help us to achieve a much larger goal: universal health for all and a better world for all through the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is already testing how we work together to address critical challenges at home and across borders. Support for international cooperation hangs in the balance at precisely the moment when robust collaboration is needed most. In 2020 we must answer the question: How resolved are we to confront the challenges and embrace the opportunities ahead, and what is needed to do so? The aim of the opening plenary is to not only set the scene for this year’s conference, but also introduce new perspectives, ideas and experiences that challenge our traditional thinking and help shape the way each conference participant engages throughout the 3-day virtual conference. We will open the NNN Conference 2020 with a moderated high-level panel discussion focusing on the key themes with reflections from the following panelists:
Our NNN Chair and Senior Scientific Advisor, NTDs at Helen Keller International, Yaobi Zhang will share an update and the NNN Annual Report. The President and CEO of The American Leprosy Missions, Bill Simmons will introduce the NTD Innovation Prize and the finalists. Simon Brooker, Deputy Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will introduce the NTDs Ideas Forum: Programme innovation in a COVID-19 context. |
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Join us for the Closing Plenary as we share reflections from this year's conference, updates from the NNN's work over the past year through our cross-cutting groups and disease-specific groups, launch a new NNN statement of commitment on engagement with persons affected by NTDs and announce the winners of the American Leprosy Missions NTD Innovation Prize! We'll also hear more on the newly announced NTD Ideas Forum, a collaboration from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on funding new innovative ideas for NTDs in the context of COVID-19.
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An exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on the NTD elimination agenda and evidence from the DFID-funded Ascend West and Central Africa programme on how activities can be re-purposed to support the COVID-19 response and preparedness. This workshop will showcase examples from the COVID response across a range of countries and identify opportunities and lessons learned for NTD programmes. |
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To reach the last mile, we must ensure that the most vulnerable and marginalized access NTD services. Recent gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) analyses conducted by the Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) East (Act| East) program revealed that social and cultural norms influence vulnerability to NTDs. Representatives from Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda will present findings and discuss how a GESI lens is critical to achieve control and elimination through health systems strengthening |
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This workshop will introduce participants to examples of integrating mental health and NTD programs across diverse contexts. It will feature efforts in Haiti, Ethiopia, and Nigeria, that are translatable across disease areas. Workshop attendees will engage in a mock session of the tool deployed in Haiti – the chronic disease self-management (CDSM) intervention - to better understand its implementation and content. A moderated discussion will address lessons learned and opportunities for building the evidence base in this space. |
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This workshop will share an example of a gender-sensitive deworming and nutrition intervention for preschool children, and its gender-related achievements within the health systems, that promote equitable access to health services for all girls, boys, women and men. Key lessons, highlights and challenges encountered will direct participant discussion and understanding of gender equality, its importance in NTD interventions, and how gender equality integration and mainstreaming can be applied in NTD programs. |
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This workshop will bring leading researchers together to share new innovative research from the 2020 London Centre for NTD Research Parasites & Vectors collection. New cross-cutting research will be presented to the NTD community and discussions will inform future operational research questions to strengthen health systems and fill research gaps in support of WHO NTD Road Map targets. |
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This workshop will facilitate a deeper understanding of the soon to be launched WHO Sustainability Framework, an accompanying tool to the WHO NTD road map 2021 – 2030, and an opportunity to work through the adoption of the framework and significance for NTD programmes, cross sectoral collaborations and expanded partnerships to deliver on sustainable impacts of NTD programmes. |
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The newly-established NNN Knowledge Management Task Team will host a highly participatory session to identify how to strengthen the NNN as a platform for knowledge exchange. We will first present an overview of findings from a recent survey of NNN members about knowledge management. Participants will then join solutions-focused group activities. These interactive activities will identify practical approaches to knowledge management that the NNN can adopt to contribute to our goal of eliminating NTDs. |
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The aim is determine the best ways to enhance the capability of national NTD teams to carry out their role as NTD programmes move into the 2021-2030 period. As a natural progression of development countries are taking more and more responsibility for implementing their national NTD programs. This session will discuss the best ways to empower and support national programs for the next 10 years, and discuss the challenges currently faced with. |
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West African neglected tropical diseases (NTD) programs have made great progress toward the elimination/control of NTDs amenable to preventive chemotherapy. However, some districts have failed impact surveys—notably for lymphatic filariasis and trachoma—due to implementation inadequacies, despite reporting good mass treatment coverage. A quality improvement framework has been initiated to strengthen country program interventions and address issues that hinder their ability to achieve the World Health Organization NTD road map elimination/control goals. |
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Successful experiences of participation, inclusion and human rights of people affected by NTDs will be presented. People active in the NTD field will refer to service delivery, decision making, advocacy and accountability. Opportunities and challenges will be addressed, as well preferred practices in the process of increasing participation of people affected. Strategies for improving participation, inclusion and human rights of people affected will be explored. |
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Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation to test ‘what works’ (and what does not work) are limited when it comes to applying a ‘leave no-one behind’ approach in the context of NTDs, and in most cases, do not exist. It therefore remains challenging to design, plan and implement high quality NTD programming that are inclusive of some of the world’s most vulnerable population groups. |
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This workshop will provide NNN members an opportunity to learn from the Kenya NTD Program on building the epidemiologic capacity for surveillance at national, sub-national, and community levels. Workshop participants will learn from the Kenya experience and draw on lessons learned to explore the possibility of replicating this model in other NTD endemic countries with similar contexts. |
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The NNN WASH Working Group’s Behaviour Change Task Team is developing guidance and practical tools to support NNN member organisations enhance the impact of their behaviour change programs, and generate and use related evidence more effectively. This interactive session will provide participants with a first opportunity to engage with the new guidance and tools, and with a series of programmatic case studies that have been developed to highlight preferred practice approaches. |
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This session will discuss how countries are planning for changing costs as five targeted NTDs move towards elimination and control states. This will be an interactive session to present the USAID-funded Act to End NTDs | West’s pilot version of a post-Elimination costing model to be used by individual NTD programs to support their planning. We aim to gather inputs from participants on what additional considerations will best support government planning processes. |
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Programming should be evidence-informed and evidence generating. Robust evidence of the impact of WASH programming on health outcomes is lacking and difficult to generate. Recent studies and events have led to increased pressure to define and deliver “transformative” WASH programming. This interactive session will focus on how WASH and NTD programming might be transformed through enhanced use of available evidence, and key improvements in the ways evidence for WASH programs is generated and shared. |
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To accelerate our progress, adapt to a changing world, build resilience and achieve our 2030 targets for NTDs, innovation is critical. This interactive workshop will help participants increase the quality of their innovative designs by:
Innovation practitioners and funders from American Leprosy Missions, Sightsavers, The END Fund and Accenture Development Program will highlight the need for innovation within the NTD space, and help participants increase the effectiveness of their innovation thinking and design with activities and resources. |
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The end-to-end supply chain is the backbone of the NTD programs. However, very little is known across the different stages, and available tools are underutilized. In this session, experts in the field will provide information across the NTD supply chain as a starting point for discussions to identify key strategies and best practices to improve the supply chain. Working together with the NNN participants, we can make improvements that can have a cascading effect across the entire system. |
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This workshop showcases practical tools for assessing and addressing mental wellbeing and stigma for persons living with NTDs. Through presentations and moderated questions and answers with experts and local champions, the audience will have an opportunity to learn and inquire about the tools and methodologies being used and their applicability to their own NTD programmes. |
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The rapid-fire sessions consist of a series of 5-minute presentations on a wide array of topics—communications, policy, programmes, examples of cross-sectoral partnerships NTD operations in humanitarian settings, cross-sectoral partnerships across disciplines, and many more. These are short, sharp and exciting, offering expert insight in emerging or ongoing topics of interest.
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