Communities measure their own change and adapt their response
We believe that communities have the capacity to measure their progress and to change.
This starts when communities build their common dream, assess their situation, make their own action plan and set targets. After a few months, the community will do its self-assessment again and see if they made a step towards achieving their dream. Back to results on HIV
A few examples...
 Street children in Bacolod are proud to measure their own progress Street children in the cities of Bacolod and Iloilo in Western Visayas have a new perspective in life. It all started when the NGO 'KGPP' organized quarterly self-assessment of risk behaviour with young peer educators and sex workers. "The children now openly discuss about sexuality. They first do their self-assessment individually and then share it with their peer group," explains John-Piermont Montilla, the founder and director of KGPP. "They are proud to measure their own progress." "I would say that about 90% of them are changing. They go for STI screening which they previously refused to do. The children are going to school again instead of roaming around in the streets. They stop or reduce sex work and earn money by creating arts and selling them during fund-raising campaigns," explained John-Pierre. |
 Health center in Ta Tum (Thailand) repeats its self-assessment "We have done the Self Assessment several times. Each time we did the current level and the target for the future. So what we did was to take the results of last time and looked at what the targets were for last year and we looked at whether we had met those targets. Our concern was about the practices that did not make the target. And here we talked about what happened, why did we did not meet the target that we had set last year and how we could improve themselves more in that regard." Ms. Charkaporn Pandontong, Ta Tum Sub-district, Pa Sang District, Lamphun, Thailand |
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