Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Module 2 Community Mobilisation and Tools
Topic 4 Data reporting and utilisation
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Data reporting and utilisation
The primary users of the data that you collect are community leaders, village health
committees, the CHO and households in the community. Secondary users are the
sub-district health team and district-level health management teams, who will use the
information to supplement data collected through their own system.
Based on the information above, a volunteer should report to two levels directly: the health
committee and the CHO. The health committee in turn reports to community leaders and
community members. The data can be presented to the community in many ways. For,
example, the data can be represented to the community in a bar chart as in Figure 2.2.3 or as
a line graph in Figure 2.2.4
Figure 2.2.4, the line graph indicates a fluctuation of malaria cases from January to June
with a rise in the number of cases from June to a peak in August. The number of cases then
reduces sharply from September to a December.
Cases of conditions reported at the Minsa health facility in January 2007
Figure 2.2.3: Presentation of data –bar chart