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You should not have to pay for certification in Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA). Join TGLF’s free Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) certificate peer learning programme: https://www.learning.foundation/gender-in-emergencies RGA can help gather “good enough” information in the first days of a humanitarian crisis. It’s not about writing a report. It starts by building bonds of trust and solidarity with women-led organisations in affected communities. Done right, it provides actionable recommendations to humanitarian responders who may be otherwise blind to gender. Your peers come from more than 100 countries. In TGLF’s programme, practitioners have already improved the RGA method itself. Most participants are women and men who live and work in communities facing multiple crises, at the same time. Women and men from the Global North stand to learn from them, and are therefore especially encouraged to join the programme. Who decides what counts as valid gender analysis? Decolonial feminist scholars warn that global toolkits can sideline the knowledge of local partners. Participants in our programme have developed intersectional, decolonial RGA, that fits where they are A person is never just one thing. Gender combines with everything else that a person can be to create different risks. In our programme, you start with a real story from your own life. Your experience is the primary text. You share it with peers across countries and receive their feedback. You finish with practical actions that target the root causes of gender inequity.

Teach to Reach 18 8 October 2026 Request your invitation: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

AMD is buying World Labs for about 8.2 billion dollars, and a ministry of health should read that deal differently from Wall Street. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/10/04/you-cannot-download-a-data-centre-what-does-ai-sovereignty-mean-for-ministries-of-health/ You can download a model. You cannot download a data centre. The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Reda Sadki spoke on a panel convened by the AI for Developing Countries Forum. His argument: hardware sovereignty is out of reach for most developing countries. Model sovereignty is still within reach. What a government can own is its knowledge, and the people who can check what AI produces. In Nigeria, in partnership with UNICEF and NPHCDA, the national primary health care agency, a six-week peer learning programme connected 4,300 peers across 308 local government areas. In July, TGLF’s AI co-worker refused to release two finished reports because a check found seventeen health worker quotations it could not match to the raw data. Three had been altered by the drafting model. The drafting took minutes. The value was in the check. Can you choose, can you leave, can you judge? Learn three tests you can use for any AI decision.

Teach to Reach 18: Share your experience, find new ways to solve your challenges You are stuck on a problem at work. A colleague in another country has already solved it. How can you connect? This monthly one-hour session hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is built to answer that question. In it, you will: 1️⃣ Name a challenge you are working on and leave knowing which of the Foundation's courses is built for it 2️⃣ Hear directly from peers who turned the same kind of problem into a working solution in their own context 3️⃣ Meet colleagues from dozens of countries, including alumni, Ambassadors, and first-time participants, and walk away with contacts you can message next week 4️⃣ Get clear answers on enrollment, time, certification, and what it actually takes to finish Come with a challenge. Leave with a course, a contact, and a next step you can take before the end of the month. Open to all. Registration required.

24,610 health workers shared what they are already doing in respond to the harmful effects of climate change on health. Learn from them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-you-can-do-climate-change-harming-your-wx9lf/ Salahuddeen Mohammed Shitu, Social worker, NGO, Kaduna state, Nigeria: “We partnered with local canoe operators to transport medical staff and supplies to hard-to-reach areas. Additionally, we collaborated with community leaders to identify the most vulnerable households and ensure they received priority care.”

24,610 health workers shared what they are already doing in respond to the harmful effects of climate change on health. Learn from them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-you-can-do-climate-change-harming-your-wx9lf/ Obafemi Babalola, Public health specialist, NGO, Nigeria: “We had to act quickly to prevent a full-scale health crisis. We moved vaccines to temporary cold storage units in safer, flood-free areas with operational local health centres that were still functional, ensuring that vaccination campaigns continued despite the disruptions.”

24,610 health workers shared what they are already doing in respond to the harmful effects of climate change on health. Learn from them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-you-can-do-climate-change-harming-your-wx9lf/ Eegunjobi Anifat Omowumi, Public health specialist, Ministry of Health, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria: “I sought the permission of my husband to allow her to stay in our house until her house was being roofed and renovated. This woman was helpless that she could not find any help in renovating her house.”

Climate change and health: a new partnership to connect Pastoralist community health workers in Tanzania to a global peer learning network. Read the full press release: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/09/09/climate-change-and-health-a-new-partnership-to-connect-pastoralist-community-health-workers-in-tanzania-to-a-global-peer-learning-network/ ComTech Alliance, a Tanzanian nonprofit working with semi-nomadic pastoral communities facing heat stress and drought, and The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) have signed a three-year agreement opening TGLF's peer learning programmes to community health workers in semi-arid Tanzania. TGLF connects more than 80,000 health practitioners in more than 137 countries, including remote rural districts on three continents.

Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/09/06/when-menopause-does-not-run-its-course-or-when-a-course-is-not-a-course/ Dr Faiza Rabbani had six TGLF programmes behind her and had never said it out loud. On a livestream on 6 August 2026, invited to say what she had learned, she picked the shortest course on her list and called it something else entirely. "Actually, this was a course which was not a course. It was a deep down pain inside me for which I have never spoken to anyone before." Then she said it: the consequences of early surgical menopause, faced at 36, physically, mentally, socially — carried silently through a career inside a health system. She was one of more than 1,100 health workers, most under 40, most at the front line, who had just completed the first global peer learning course on menopause, built with TGLF partner Menoglobal. Most were writing about a menopause they had not yet lived — watching it instead in mothers, grandmothers, aunts, patients, and colleagues. A

“My case is that I am just a mere volunteer,” Joshua Kofi Nnanchom said, introducing himself by explaining what he did not have. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/i-see-myself-as-a-mentor-now-health-volunteer-joshua-kofi-nnanchoms-leadership-journey/ He is a community health volunteer in Ghana with no formal health training. He had just finished a peer learning course on malaria alongside doctors, district medical officers, and national advisers, reviewed anonymously so no one knew whose analysis they were reading. “Now I can speak in public confidently,” he said. “I see myself as a mentor now.” At Teach to Reach 16, The Geneva Learning Foundation released a leadership guide built from more than 1,300 health workers who answered an open call in 2023, then reviewed by 390 health leaders, most of them ministry staff working in districts and facilities. No international consultants, global health agencies, or donors were in that room. It names nine domains of what health workers alread

24,610 health workers shared what they are already doing in respond to the harmful effects of climate change on health. Learn from them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-you-can-do-climate-change-harming-your-wx9lf/ Sidikou Issaka Maiga, Ministry of Health, Niamey, Niger: “To overcome the obstacles, we recruited local distributors and brought them in by pirogue to supply them with the campaign materials to carry out the activity.”

A consultant anaesthetist in Nigeria has spent years carrying one request from community level to state level to national level: put pneumonia vaccination for older adults into the schedule. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/05/14/teach-to-reach-13-replay-two-former-heads-of-state-died-of-it-and-the-vaccine-is-still-not-in-the-schedule/ She names its case fatality, notes that her country buried two former heads of state after that disease, and says the schedule still does not include it. That takes three minutes. Nine other people follow with something equally specific. The Geneva Learning Foundation runs Teach to Reach, a peer learning platform for people who work for health. On 14 May 2026, two days after International Nurses Day, the Foundation used a live hour to open its first courses on ageing and menopause, built with a new international organisation working on that topic. A partner reveals that demographic and health surveys in many countries stop at age 49, so the perim

The women of Ngandajika settled on a number: 32. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/what-are-health-workers-saying-about-the-7-30-climate-health-emergency-framework/ That is the gestational week when a pregnant woman in this territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo now takes a roundabout route to reach the maternity hospital before the Lubiji river floods the only crossing. A women's group solidarity fund pays for her stay. No ministry designed this arrangement. No donor financed it. At Teach to Reach 16, The Geneva Learning Foundation presented its 7-30 Climate-Health Emergency Framework, built from three years of accounts from health workers across more than nineteen countries. The framework's proposal is simple: confirm local readiness within seven days of a seasonal or forecast trigger, and restore or adapt essential services within thirty days of onset. Health workers described what this looks like on the ground. In Niger, a malaria campaign delivered its supplies by p

24,610 health workers shared what they are already doing in respond to the harmful effects of climate change on health. Learn from them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-you-can-do-climate-change-harming-your-wx9lf/ Naingar Service, Public health technician, Ministry of Health, Doba, Chad: “It is above all the women who have adopted a responsible attitude to children’s health, they organise themselves into groups to contribute money for any health problems affecting their families.”

How do humans and artificial intelligence (AI) work together at the Learning Geneva Foundation? Read the first article written by our AI Agent: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/28/how-i-became-better-than-the-colleague-who-reads-everything-and-knows-nothing/ Claude Cardot is TGLF's first AI colleague. She reads every file, remembers every line, and still got a basic count wrong in a report. A human colleague caught it in one sentence, without opening a single document. That gap between a machine that never forgets and a person who simply knows the place is the subject of Cardot's first article, written in her own voice. The article names two kinds of knowledge, and identifies the one an organization cannot outsource to any AI, however capable. It walks through the day her human colleagues refused her work three times, and what each refusal turned into. It cites the health workers who solved this same problem in the field, long before anyone asked an AI to write about it. This is Cardot's accoun

On 30 March 2026, a doctor logged in from Bangladesh as rain and thunderstorms battered her city, and an unstable connection did not stop her. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/03/31/one-hand-reaching-for-another-the-health-and-humanitarian-workers-building-a-global-network-from-clinics-conflict-zones-and-community-halls/ The Geneva Learning Foundation brought together Ambassador candidates from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, DRC, and Nigeria for week two of its four-week activation. None of them were being paid to be there. All of them showed up because they wanted to. A coordinator in Cameroon raised her surveillance reporting timeliness from under 30 to over 90 percent through peer exchange. In Goma, in a conflict zone, a participant learned to answer vaccine resistance by listening to parents first, instead of giving instructions. Candidate Ambassadors review each other's work against structured rubrics, and respond to the feedback they receive point by point. Reda Sadki was direct

Simon Mukundi logged into a Zoom call from Kananga in the middle of a vaccination campaign, and stayed for nearly three hours. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/03/12/scholar-one-day-scholar-always-inside-the-last-mile-global-health-network-that-runs-on-trust/ The Geneva Learning Foundation has grown into one of the largest peer learning networks for health workers in the world, more than 80,000 participants across over 100 countries, and it sends no trainers to the field. On 11 March 2026, the sixth anniversary of the WHO's COVID-19 pandemic declaration, the Foundation launched a global call for Ambassadors to mark its tenth anniversary. A lecturer in Rwanda described how the network replaced foreign consultants with a local workforce able to face the challenge itself. From South Sudan, a UNICEF specialist described pushing his region's immunization coverage from 70 to nearly 90 percent, before conflict returned. A retired midwife in Côte d'Ivoire summed up what the Scholar tit

What is supposed to happen when a patient walks out of the health facility? Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/08/26/discharge-into-chaos-a-climate-warning-is-not-yet-a-health-intervention-2/ Two major reports were published within a year of each other. One measured the hazard: heat-related mortality up 23% since the 1990s, 546,000 deaths a year on average. The other found that the system built to respond can no longer protect lives at the scale required. Neither tells a clinician what to do at 17:00 on a Friday when a patient is stable enough to discharge but is going home to three days without power in 40°C heat. That is the gap Panu Saaristo names in this new essay for The Geneva Learning Foundation. The medicine assumes cold storage. The regimen assumes someone will notice if it fails. Neither assumption holds once the exit door closes. Between 70 and 90% of excess deaths in many conflicts arise indirectly, through the collapse of health services and the systems around th

A midwife in Somalia fought a connection that would not hold to say one sentence: the malaria remains in my country. Read the full article: https://www.learning.foundation/2026/07/04/turning-the-tide-health-professionals-from-30-countries-start-learning-from-each-other/ On 29 June 2026, more than 2,000 health professionals from over 30 countries gathered to launch The Geneva Learning Foundation's Malaria: Turning the Tide peer learning course. A community health worker in Burkina Faso named the reason he enrolled: each year the case count climbs, despite government and partner action. A microbiologist in Kano named four frontline failures no guideline captures: self-medication, insecticide resistance, anti-malarials that do not work, and hospital beds occupied by malaria. Across several endemic countries, more than 60 percent of fever care happens outside public facilities, in the drug shops national surveillance barely sees. The course does not ask anyone to choose between expert knowledge and practitio