This training manual outlines a structured approach to supportive supervision for trachoma programmes, focusing on improving surgical quality, team performance, outreach efficiency, communication, leadership, and data use through mentoring-based supervision and practical skills development.
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Resources
At KCCO, we believe that sharing practical knowledge is just as powerful as delivering care.
Our growing resource library supports eye care professionals, program managers, policymakers, researchers and educators across Africa with tools designed to strengthen systems, train teams and scale sustainable impact.
Whether you’re developing a national plan, launching a hospital program, or conducting training in remote areas. These resources are built to inform and empower your work.
Surgery quality
Organizing trichiasis surgical outreach
This guide outlines best practices for planning and implementing trichiasis surgical outreach, emphasizing site selection, community mobilization, resource preparation, staffing, patient referral systems, and coordination with local authorities to ensure accessible, safe, and effective surgical services in underserved areas.
Trachoma Action Planning
This guide outlines a structured, data-driven planning process for eliminating blinding trachoma using the SAFE strategy, emphasizing national workshops, trichiasis and active disease planning, evidence-based targets, stakeholder participation, and development of adaptable action plans to achieve WHO elimination thresholds.
Low Vision Care in Africa
This document provides a practical framework for delivering low vision services in Africa. It focuses on early identification, integrated clinical and educational support, and coordinated multi-sector planning to help children and adults with irreversible vision loss use their remaining sight effectively and improve quality of life.
Leadership and Management for Trachoma Elimination
This workshop manual develops leadership and management skills for trachoma elimination programmes, focusing on leadership styles, delegation, change management, health systems understanding, and strengthening partnerships to improve programme coordination and implementation effectiveness.
RAAB instruction manual
This manual describes the RAAB methodology for rapid population-based assessment of avoidable blindness in adults aged 50+, outlining standardized sampling, simplified eye examination methods, automated data analysis, and its role in generating reliable district-level data to support planning, monitoring, and evaluation of VISION 2020 eye care programmes.
Using Key Informants to Identify and Refer Children who need Eye Care Services
This manual outlines strategies for using community key informants to identify and refer children with severe vision loss or blindness in Africa, emphasizing planning, estimation of need, training, and referral systems to improve access to timely pediatric eye care services.
Micro-planning for effective Zithromax Mass Drug Administration
This manual describes micro-planning for trachoma MDA, emphasizing detailed logistical preparation to ensure accurate drug delivery, efficient resource allocation, community registers, stakeholder coordination, and health system strengthening to achieve high-coverage Zithromax distribution in endemic areas.
Preferred Practices for Zithromax Mass Drug Administration
This report summarizes discussions and research priorities from the 2012 GlobaThis document outlines preferred practices for mass drug administration of Zithromax in trachoma control programmes, emphasizing planning, coordination, training, supply chains, communication, and achieving high coverage toward elimination goals globallyl Scientific Meeting on Trachomatous Trichiasis in Moshi, Tanzania, with a focus on surgical management, quality, and service delivery in trachoma control programs.
The End in Sight
This report summarizes the global strategy for eliminating blinding trachoma by 2020, outlining current progress, remaining challenges, and the need to scale up the WHO-endorsed SAFE strategy through coordinated action, funding, and partnerships.