Community Structures definition
Community Structures. The Project will leave a number of community volunteers in place, including trained HBCVs, CHWs and TBAs. Its most important community structure, however, is the Community Health Committee. The CHCs received preliminary organizational training from the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHCN), and they are being helped to put this training into practice by the NDCSP Community Liaison Specialists. During Phase I, they led the CHCs in a series of PRA exercises designed to help them choose their priorities and develop an action plan. During Phase II, by participating with MCDI in the development of comprehensive behavior change strategies surrounding the IMCI Key Family Practices, the CHCs will acquire skills needed to execute behavior change initiatives independently. Sustainability of the CHCs will be achieved by improving the technical and supervisory capabilities of two Community Health Facilitators who have been assigned from among the staff nurses of Montebello Hospital to the task of supervising the Ndwedwe area CHCs. The Facilitators are still undergoing training for community work, but they are expected to be fully trained and skilled by the end of the NDCSP. The formal integration of CHWs (an potentially HBCVs) into the MOH service delivery system (CHWs are now paid by the MOH) enhances the support mechanisms that CHCs will need to remain viable.
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For Definitions of Learning Community Structures see the General Education Guidelines.