Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Table 2.4.1: Sample Action Plan for Community COPE
Indiscriminate
refuse
disposal
Weedy
surroundings
• Lack of
designated
refuse dump
• Lack of
communal
spirit
• Lack of
communal
spirit
• Ignorant
about health
hazards
•
•
•
•
Ask from chief and elders
to give land for use as
refuse dump
Use communal labor to
dig it
Encourage all to use the
refuse dump
Apply sanctions for
defaulters
• Chiefs and elders to call a
meeting with community
members to discuss
• All members taxed to weed
surroundings
• Institute communal labour
fort nightly to weed around.
• Involve school children and
teachers
• Involve societies and
churches
• Appoint some community
members to ensure that
this exercise is sustained
• Institute sanctions for those
who do not comply.
Community participatory tools
Agya Kuo June 10,
2007
Auntie Ceci May 31,
2007
All action plans from the 4 groups are then presented at a plenary. Community members are
given 4-6 weeks to implement the recommendations in the action plans. A specific date is set
for a follow up meeting. Six weeks is ample time for all groups to implement the suggested
recommendations in the action plans.
Six weeks after the first C-COPE exercise, the same group meets again to assess the status of
the recommendations.
They are taught how to record what they have done so far as follows:
Table 2.4.2: Sample of Community COPE Action Plan Follow Up
Problem Causes Recommendation Status Comments
Teenage
Pregnancy
• Lack of parental
guidance
• Peer pressure
• Poverty
•
•
Plan durbar for parents to
encourage teenagers to
finish school.
Health staff to give talks
on F&P and STI’s
Done
Done
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