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CLUSA's Approach to Community Health
CLUSA’s approach to community health concentrates on working with communities to: assess
their health priorities; plan strategically to address issues identified; and develop revenue
generation activities to both fund local health care service provision and infrastructure as well as
related health promotion activities.
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| Principle Strategies |
Description |
| Training |
CLUSA offers training and/or technical assistance to communities and local health centers
in: improved fiscal management; organizational development; health advocacy; priority
setting; budget development; and cost-recovery techniques. Critical issues in community
health are integrated into all training sessions, including HIV/AIDS, maternal and child
health, basic hygiene practices, nutrition, and malaria. |
Civil Society
Strengthening |
Civil society strengthening encompasses valuable skills training in literacy, leadership,
citizen participation techniques, and advocacy as related to community health issues. The
CLUSA approach has been effective in imparting the level of organization, skills and
confidence that citizens need to interact with local governments to discuss and enhance the
quality of decentralized health services. |
| Decentralization
and Community
Responsibility |
CLUSA employs civic education campaigns, coupled with tailored proven citizen
participation techniques, to educate citizens about the rights, roles and responsibilities of
both civil society and government in good governance processes. Civic education also
cultivates citizens’ involvement in government and encourages greater transparency and
accountability from government itself. The goal is to ensure greater public access to local
government decision-making processes. |
| Resource
Mobilization
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CLUSA explores with communities resource mobilization strategies, such as charges for
medical consultations, sale of essential and generic drugs in community-managed
pharmacies and other revenue-generating projects, which raise funds that can be channeled
back to community health activities. In addition, resource mobilization also capitalizes on
labor and materials and the volunteer spirit readily available at the local level. |
| Replication of and
Building on
Successful
Experiences |
CLUSA constantly reevaluates and refines its approach in the health sector based on past
project experiences, feedback from communities themselves, and research emerging from
other organizations and the international development field. |
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