Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Module 2 Community Mobilisation and Tools
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Exercise 2.4.13
Objective
1. To discuss how men and women can be
encouraged to speak out and be listened to
Time: 30mins
Questions
For Men
1. What do you think is the most difficult thing
about being a woman in Ghana
2. How can men support and empower women?
3. What do you remember about growing up as a
boy in Ghana? What was difficult about being
a teenage boy?
4. Who are some of the positive male influences
in your life? Why are they positive?
5. Who are some of the positive female
influences in your life? Why are they positive?
For Women
1. What do you think is the most difficult thing
about being a man in Ghana?
2. How can men support and empower women?
3. What do you remember about growing up as a
boy in Ghana? What did you like about being a
girl? What did you not like?
4. Who are some of the positive male influences
in your life? Why are they positive?
5. Who are some of the positive female
influences in your life? Why are they positive?
6. What surprised you about this activity?
7. How did you feel talking about these things
with others listening?
8. What did you learn?
Unit Summary
Instruction to the Facilitator
1. Divide the participants into
a male group and a female
group.
2. Ask the women to sit in a
circle in the middle of the
room and the men to sit
around the outside of the
circle facing in.
3. Begin a discussion with
the women by asking the
questions listed in the box
on the left. The men’s job
is to observe and listen to
what is being said. They
are not allowed to speak
out.
4. Once the women
have talked for about
15 minutes, close the
discussion. Then ask the
men to switch places with
the women and lead a
discussion with the men
while the women listen.
The questions for the men
are also listed below.
5. Discuss the activity
after both groups have
completed the discussion.
Use the questions labelled
A,B,C as guide.
We have been looking at how community members can use C-COPE to identify and solve
their own problems with locally available resources. Through practical exercises we also
saw the benefits in using C-COPE and the challenges it poses and how volunteers and
health workers can use C-COPE. We saw how culture affects out behaviour and discussed
the importance of values and attitudes and how these affect our interactions with others.
Through a series of exercises we learned about the various ways by which we can improve
relations between men and women and especially help men avoid behaviours that hurt them
and their loved ones and relations.