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Once a community knows where it wants to go (common vision), it reflects on where it is today.
Why?
The Community assesses where it is:
- To open the discussion about HIV
- To understand community situations by learning from each other from within the community
- To set a certain target to reach for improvement
What happens? Based on their vision, the community comes up with practices that lead to that vision. Based on our experience, they can be summarized into ten practices for HIV: 1. Acknowledgement and Recognition |
For each practice, people assess their community at a level between 1 and 5. One can understand the levels in general terms as follows:
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The facilitator stimulates the discussion and helps the community to come to a consensus.
Free water and no HIV! The public water pump, in a mine near Lubumbashi, DR-Congo, was broken. Women from a nearby village had to get water from the owner of a private water pump, who was taking advantage of the situation. When the women did their self-assessment, they realized many had sex with this man in exchange for water and that they were all at risk. They took action and convinced the mine to repair the public pump. |
Tools and downloads
Download the self-assessment on HIV
More about the self-assessment on malaria
More about the Community Life Competence Process in the Blended Learning course