Impact
January – December 2027 Programme
Twelve months, twelve campaign themes — leading to Stepin’s first full public impact report. Select any month to explore it.
Starting the year with the question most people have never been asked: what actually raises your risk, and what can you do about it?
- Community education on modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors
- Family history awareness — who should tell a health professional, and why
- Hepatitis B testing awareness, framed as liver cancer prevention
- Tobacco, alcohol, weight and activity messaging
Programme: Stepin Knowledge
Campaign: Love Yourself Enough to Check. Breast and cervical health, timed to a month when affection is already in the air.
- Breast self-awareness education
- Clinical breast examination awareness and signposting
- Cervical screening awareness — what VIA and HPV testing actually involve
- Couples and household messaging, engaging men directly
Programme: Stepin Early
Around International Women’s Day: centring the knowledge, authority and voices of women themselves.
- Women’s health leadership events
- Survivor voices and community storytelling
- Market and workplace women’s health sessions
- Recruitment drive for Community Champions
Programme: Stepin Knowledge
Going deeper into communities rather than wider — sustained presence in the places where Stepin has already begun.
- Sustained community outreach in target areas
- Work with CHPS compounds and community health workers
- Faith community engagement
- Household and family health conversations
Programme: Stepin Knowledge
The heart of the model. Not just knowing — going.
- Early-action campaign across all channels
- Practical signposting to screening and examination services
- Addressing the specific barriers women report: cost, distance, fear, embarrassment
- Preparing partner facilities for increased attendance
Programme: Stepin Early
Household health decisions are rarely made alone. This month engages men as partners in women’s health — and addresses prostate cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Ghanaian men.
- Men’s sessions on supporting the women in their households
- Prostate health awareness and informed decision-making about PSA testing
- Work with male-dominated workplaces and associations
- Addressing the cost and permission barriers men can remove
Programme: Stepin Knowledge
Training the people who will carry this work when Stepin’s staff are somewhere else.
- Community Champion training cohort
- Supervision and quality assurance structures
- Local-language materials for champion-led sessions
- Champion-led outreach begins
Programme: Stepin Knowledge
The referral and navigation month — and the point at which the 2027 pilot is tested hardest.
- Patient navigation pilot in full operation
- Referral pathway review with clinical partners
- Systematic recording of where the pathway breaks
- Support for patients and families moving through the system
Programme: Stepin Connect
Theme: From Awareness to Early Action. Bringing together clinicians, health authorities, partners, survivors and communities.
- The first Stepin Women’s Cancer Summit
- Presentation of pilot findings to date
- Clinical and policy panels
- Survivor and community voices
- Partnership and funding conversations
Programme: Stepin Impact
Breast Cancer Awareness Month — and the month Stepin turns a year of activity into analysis.
- Breast cancer awareness campaign at full scale
- Analysis of the year’s monitoring data
- Beneficiary feedback collection, including what did not work
- Preparation of the annual impact report
Programme: Stepin Impact
Securing the base for 2028. Growth without funding is a plan to disappoint people.
- Partner review meetings and renewals
- Corporate partnership and sponsorship development
- Institutional and grant funding applications
- 2028 scaling plan agreed with partners
Programme: Stepin Impact
Publication of Stepin’s first full annual impact report — including the parts that disappoint us.
- Annual impact report published publicly
- Results shared back with participating communities
- Partner and funder reporting
- Decision point: what scales in 2028, and what changes
Programme: Stepin Impact · Roadmap phase: Pilot & Prove → Scale
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