Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Module 3 The Work of the Health Committee
Unit 3
Managing Community Resources
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Introduction
Communities have to be mobilised for various health activities. This unit will discuss
organising meetings, managing and accounting for resources.
In the unit, you will use the knowledge gained from Module 1 Unit 4 to organise
communities for their own health activities. We will discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of the approaches, and share experiences in organising communities for
health action. We will also discuss how to organise meetings.
An important aspect of organising and managing health care delivery in the community as
a volunteer is the management of resources. Time is one of the most important resources
anyone can have. Time lost is never regained. This unit will help you develop skills for
managing and using resources.
Unit Objectives Unit Topics
By the end of this Unit volunteers will be able to:
1. Organising meetings
1. Demonstrate how to organise meetings
2. Managing and accounting for community
2. Discuss how to manage and account for
resources
resources at the community level
Keywords and Phrases:
Defaulters, personal hygiene, managing, organise, accounting, preparation.
Topic 1 Organising meetings
What are meetings
Meetings are events organised where people gather to deliberate on common issues of
interest based on laid down procedures. Meetings are legal requirements for some activities
and management tools in managing organisations. The minutes of a meeting is considered
binding on all members whether they were present or not.
Meetings may take many forms like management meetings, planning meetings, committee
meetings, board meetings, durbars, etc. Wherever people meet to discuss the welfare of a
group or community we say they are holding a meeting. One of your roles as a community
volunteer is to convene various meetings or be part of meetings.