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Building Block Five: Developing a Skilled Team
Ensuring community accountability is a complex process. The essential components of community monitoring like community mobilization, documentation, campaign, monitoring, preparation of score cards etc requires special sets of skills and functioning. The mapping of skills and role will be helpful to decide what type of trainings and inputs the team will be required over a period of time. The clear list of skills and role/ responsibility will be helpful to draw a road map for the team and required input needed from their end. The list of roles and skills/ responsibility will help to ensure timely expected outcome of the project.
Components:
Role of Community Coordinator/Mobiliser:
List of Skills needed
Training Community Mobilisers:
Before the a program of community monitoring starts it may be important to train coordinators/community moderators about the project its objectives, the different component, and anticipated out come and so on. It is also important to train them about theoretical aspect – like right to health, what is the health system in the country they reside in? What is community monitoring and elements of it? What are the barrier to health etc. This will help them to build their capacity, understanding and skills to carry out their duty/responsibilities and ensure smooth roll out of the project. Training is vital in solving the problems and doubts and help build and boosts their confidence.
Objectives of the training:
Participants:
Expected Outcomes:
Duration: 4 or 5 days with practical session in the field
Content areas of the training
Components:
- List of Roles
- List of Skills
Role of Community Coordinator/Mobiliser:
- Attending capacity building trainings
- Group formation & Group meetings
- Internal Advocacy
- One to one meetings with community people
- Supporting and Supervision of Community volunteers
- Coordination between community volunteers and organization
- Advocacy with Community
- Documentation
- Conducting monthly meeting with Group members
- Attending /participating in village meetings
- Community Action/ Monitoring
- Sharing of report card
- Developing and conducting community campaigns
List of Skills needed
- Community Mobilization
- Communication and Public speaking
- Organising skills
- Facilitation skills
- Leadership skills
- Organizing and facilitating meeting
- Campaign planning and organize same
- Conduct Community monitoring
- Skills in diagnosing and facilitating community process - assessing, foreseeing and observing the tension/ conflicts in the intervention area and suggest options/alternatives to address the same.
- Writing / case study skills
- Skill to conduct group discussion
- Skill in conducting interviews
- Skill in doing simple calculation
- Preparation of report card
Training Community Mobilisers:
Before the a program of community monitoring starts it may be important to train coordinators/community moderators about the project its objectives, the different component, and anticipated out come and so on. It is also important to train them about theoretical aspect – like right to health, what is the health system in the country they reside in? What is community monitoring and elements of it? What are the barrier to health etc. This will help them to build their capacity, understanding and skills to carry out their duty/responsibilities and ensure smooth roll out of the project. Training is vital in solving the problems and doubts and help build and boosts their confidence.
Objectives of the training:
- To increase knowledge about health issues, especially on entitlements and mechanisms for community participation and ownership
- To develop an understanding on community monitoring within a framework of health rights
- To develop skills in applying tools for community monitoring
- To prepare an action plan for implementing the community monitoring programme
Participants:
- Municipal coordinators and village coordinators
Expected Outcomes:
- Increase knowledge about health issues, especially on entitlements and mechanisms for community participation and ownership
- Develop an understanding on community monitoring within a framework of health rights
- Develop skills in applying tools for community monitoring
- Prepare an action plan for implementing the community monitoring
Duration: 4 or 5 days with practical session in the field
Content areas of the training
- What are rights based approach to health
- The health system in the country
- Universal Access and social exclusion
- Understanding barriers to health
- Health programme implementation and marginalized communities
- Obtaining information related to health
- What is community monitoring?
- Tools for community monitoring
- How to administer tools – field visit / group work
- How to prepare Community Score Cards
- Sharing of Results – Public sharing
