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MANGOCHI ICEIDA PARTNERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH – PROGRAMME DOCUMENT 2012-2016
4.3. Target groups and Stakeholders
The primary target group is the population of Mangochi District with priority given to the poorest
communities in rural areas. The community at large will benefit from improved access and better
health services, particularly women, children and families.
Secondary beneficiaries will be field workers, community development committees and various staff
at the DHO through participation in programme activities, training courses, etc. which is expected to
increase their capacity to deliver services. The community and health personnel in Mangochi,
including district-, facility-, and community levels are all targeted and will participate in the work.
Three categories of health personnel are specifically targeted: health surveillance assistants (HSAs),
nurse/midwifes, and public health managers at district level (DHMT and E-DHMT).
As the role and capabilities of the HSAs is regarded highly critical for the implementation of activities
under the current programme, and they assume a key role in the implementation of improved access
to sanitation under the Water and Sanitation Programme, the implementation of activities relying on
HSAs will be assessed regularly, in order to determine whether additional support is required to
strengthen their ability to carry out their work. 3
The main stakeholders in the health sector in Mangochi are local communities, service providers, and
institutions, organisations and individuals involved in education of health professionals and research.
Main stakeholders among service providers, apart from the DHO, include the CHAM network, and
various local, national and international NGOs (their activities are not well defined and for the most
part poorly coordinated). Finally, there are private (for-profit) providers.
4.4. Cross Cutting Issues
Throughout the MBSP, two cross cutting issues, gender and environment, will be systematically
considered and indicators used to measure progress towards gender equality, as stipulated in the
master programme document. Reproductive health is one of the main focus of this programme and
indicators pertaining to that are considered important to measure progress towards gender equality.
3 The monitoring of activities performed by HSAs will include: Number of VHCs trained in PHC, percentace of children fully immunized, as
well as indicators from the Water and Sanitation Programme, number of villages triggered in CLTS, and the percentage of population with
access to improved sanitation.
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