What changed at Teach to Reach 16?
On 6 August 2026, at Teach to Reach 16, health workers from more than 50 countries joined the sixteenth edition of the world’s largest peer learning…
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Malaria: nobody turns the tide alone
In online learning, 95 people out of a 100 quit. A network of health workers from malaria-endemic countries spent one summer proving that this is a…
What’s the buzz about new tools for malaria?
What do a rapid test, a preventive medicine, and a bed net have in common? Every one of them, somewhere, has met a parent who said…
Teach to Reach 17: 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? Request your invitation to join…
No child should die from malaria: Thierno Abdoulaye Baldé’s story
The Geneva Learning Foundation runs peer learning for the people who deliver health care where it is hardest to deliver. Its courses ask participants not for…
Teach to Reach 16 Replay: Defying distance to learn and lead change, from menopause to malaria
258 health workers. 1,534 real stories. One question: how do we turn the tide against malaria? In Teach to Reach 16, the Geneva Learning Foundation gives…
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What does it mean to broker knowledge in a network?
Our network function requires that we interact with the network. We observe profound changes in the nature of knowledge, how it circulates, and this affects how…
How do we learn from the network?
When our organization’s hierarchy prohibits direct contact with the field, indirect and informal contact becomes more important than ever. Global and regional meetings, bilateral programmes, and…
Death of the knowledge bank
The complexity of the networks in which our organization operates is scaffolded by a corpus of mostly-unwritten, tacit knowledge and ‘ways of working’ that we learn mostly…
Decentralization done wrong
Leave the global functions to headquarters, and shift responsibility for the field to those who are actually there (or close by). It sounds perfectly sensible. And,…
The hub in a network
We sit at the hub of a distributed network. In the past, only some organizations sought to organize as networks – those that had to bring together, federate or…
Mind the gap
How do we establish a mentoring relationship? What do we do when we identify a knowledge or performance gap in a colleague? This is a sensitive issue.…
Being mentored
Mentor was the name of the adviser of the young Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey. A mentor is an experienced and trusted advisor. In the workplace, mentoring…
Onboarding
How do we get newcomers onboard? Onboarding refers to the mechanism through which new staff acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective “insiders”…
Mentoring
Fostering relationships that enable and sustain collaboration and inquiry requires building trust about both technical competencies and each person’s interest in dialogue. Therefore, two contexts require…