Community Mobilization

KEY ELEMENTS:

The Facilitator and Participant manual for training of trainers.
Three toolkits for Community Action Groups to use in supporting implementation of the Community Action Cycle process.

Community Action Cycle + Partnership Defined Quality

Breakthrough ACTION adapted the Community Action Cycle (CAC) to include elements of the Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ). The combined model allows for engagement of community members and health service providers by creating opportunities for discussion, both separately and then together, to identify issues around accessing and providing healthcare to communities and how to address these issues. The hybrid approach encourages community collective action and social accountability.

Social and Behavior Change Objectives

Contribute to sustained change in behavioral and social norms.
Strengthen the capacity of communities to carry out activities in a participatory and sustained basis to improve their health and other needs.
Understand the issues that prevent communities from seeking family planning and reproductive health services and to prioritize and address the issues together.
Ignite collective action to support the uptake and seeking of health services for family planning and reproductive health.

Community Action Cycle

How to Use

The adapted Community Action Cycle integrates the process of Partnership Defined Quality to encourage dialogue, discussion and decision-making between community members and providers.

The following are the CAC/PDQ key stages:

Prepare to Mobilize
Community Entry
Communities Defining, Exploring Issues and Setting Priorities
Communities Develop Local Solutions
Implementation and Data Visualization for Decision Making

This combined process can be used for family planning and reproductive health, or can be adapted for other health areas.

There are two sets of tools included here to help support the CAC process.

Facilitator and Participants Manuals

These are designed to help trainers, community workers and volunteers understand the community mobilization process and empower community members to be their own agents of change and thereby support measurable improvements in the health and well-being of their families and communities. Using the manuals, trainers will help to form and orient Community Action Groups (CAG) to support the rollout of Community Action Cycle.

Toolkits for Community Action Groups

Toolkit One prepares the Community Action Groups for community entry.
Toolkit Two guides the CAG on how to work with community members and health care providers to individually identify the challenges around access family planning and reproductive health services, and then together to prioritize and address these challenges.
Toolkit Three is designed to support CAGs to develop community action plans with indicators, including activities to improve quality of services. Communities work together to monitor and share the data with the broader community using community bulletin boards.

Facilitator and Participant Manuals

ComActionCycle+PDQ_FacilitatorsManual_FINAL_REVISED.pdf

ComActionCycle+PDQ_ParticipantsManual_FINAL_REVISED.pdf

Toolkits for Community Action Groups

ComActionCycle+PDQ_Toolkit1_FINAL_REVISED.pdf

Toolkit One serves as a guide for Community Mobilization Teams on the facilitation of the first phase of the Community Action Cycle: Community Entry & Organizing for Collective Action.

ComActionCycle+PDQ_Toolkit2_FINAL_REVISED.pdf

Toolkit Two provides support in identifying critical behaviours and social factors that contribute to ill health and act as barriers to effective access and utilization of services. As part of Partnership Defined Quality, communities and health facilities can use this guide to define quality together.

ComActionCycle+PDQ_Toolkit3_FINAL_REVISED.pdf

Toolkit Three serves as a guide to the facilitation of participatory action plan development for the Communities Develop Local Solutions phase of the Community Action Cycle.

CAC + PDQ Files

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