{"id":15606,"date":"2021-05-21T13:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/?p=15606"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:07:08","slug":"new-community-of-practice-supports-neglected-tropical-diseases-program-managers-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2021\/05\/21\/new-community-of-practice-supports-neglected-tropical-diseases-program-managers-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Community of Practice supports Neglected Tropical Diseases Program Managers in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15607\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 297px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15607 \" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kikundi-Banner_560x380.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kikundi-Banner_560x380.png 560w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kikundi-Banner_560x380-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kikundi-Banner_560x380-375x254.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Kikundi&#8217;s logo is a West African Adinkra symbol signifying togetherness.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Global WACh Gut Health and Child Survival team, in partnership with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda recently launched Kikundi, a Community of Practice (CoP) for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Program Managers in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Kikundi is the Kiswahili word for \u201cgroup,\u201d which fittingly describes this CoP that aims to foster connection among Program Managers, and ultimately help them in achieving national and global NTD elimination benchmarks.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nKikundi was developed with support from the Gates Foundation after Program Managers, who are high-level Ministry of Health officials leading national NTD programs, identified collaboration and cross-country coordination as a priority for reaching the control or elimination of NTDs.<\/p>\n<p>Program Managers are in the process of onboarding onto an exclusive online website that allows members to share, interact, and communicate in simulated discussions and activities. \u00a0In-person components of Kikundi, including structured learning site visits and meetings, will launch in late 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Kikundi on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/kikundi_cop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kikundi-Community-of-Practice-107116088210241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kikundi_cop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/kikundi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for updates from the CoP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global WACh Gut Health and Child Survival team, in partnership with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda recently launched Kikundi, a Community of Practice (CoP) for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Program Managers in Africa. Kikundi is the Kiswahili word for \u201cgroup,\u201d which fittingly describes this CoP that aims to foster connection among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2021\/05\/21\/new-community-of-practice-supports-neglected-tropical-diseases-program-managers-in-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Community of Practice supports Neglected Tropical Diseases Program Managers in Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gut-health-and-child-survival","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15606"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18892,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions\/18892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}