Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
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Module 2 <strong>Community</strong> Mobilisation and Tools<br />
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Exercise 2.1.3: Role play<br />
Objective<br />
To identify the information needed<br />
for a community register<br />
Time: 10 minutes.<br />
Questions<br />
1. What was the role play about?<br />
2. What is a community register?<br />
3. Identify some of the information<br />
needed to compile a community<br />
register.<br />
4. What can a community register<br />
be used for?<br />
Instruction to the Facilitator<br />
1. Ask volunteers to role play a family at<br />
home comprising a father, mother, child,<br />
landlord or household head.<br />
2. Have two volunteers act as data<br />
collectors compiling a community<br />
register.<br />
3. Ask volunteers to observe and make<br />
notes on the information the volunteers<br />
collect from the family.<br />
4. Use the questions as a guide for<br />
discussions on the role play.<br />
It is important that every community has a community demographic register, because the<br />
information in them helps us to plan and implement community programmes effectively.<br />
The register must be updated regularly, at least once a year. If you do not know how many<br />
mouths to feed, you cannot plan effectively for the food they need. As a result your children<br />
could go hungry. So, get to know it and plan sufficiently for all community members.<br />
If you know how many children got malaria in the first half of the year from the register, you<br />
could assist the CHO plan how much malaria drugs should be stocked for the next half-year.<br />
Table 2.1.1. shows how the malaria data helped a CHO to order the quantity of a malaria<br />
drug from the sub-district level.<br />
Table 2.1.1: A page in a community register showing the number of malaria cases<br />
from 2002 to 2007.<br />
YEAR<br />
MONTH 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
Jan-June 24 40 48 25 25 35<br />
July-Dec. 38 30 20 56 60 62<br />
Total 62 70 68 81 95 97<br />
Malaria drugs<br />
1st request<br />
60 68 78 75 83 91<br />
Malaria drugs<br />
2nd request<br />
2 2 - - 0 0<br />
Remainder 0 0 (7) 2 6 3<br />
Observation The number of malaria cases has risen steadily over the past 5 years. What<br />
might be the reason? What can we do to reduce the trend?
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