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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 malaria
- 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 14 for malaria:
1. Facts of Life | Communities assess themselves 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.
The self-assessment is our guide In Gboto Assingamé (Togo) thirthy women from the club for Mothers held their copy of the self-assessment. "It is our guide!" exclaimed Mrs Katerita. "We refer to it when we meet every Thursday. It helps us to decide what we are going to do during the week to fight malaria." This is how they decided that each of them would contribute 40CFA Francs every forthnight. With this money, they buy ten bednets every month. |
Tools and downloads
Download the self-assessment on malaria
More about the self-assessment on HIV
More about the Community Life Competence Process in the Blended Learning course
