Guide for Community Assessments on Women's Health Care - ICRW

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Step 9: Find an appropriate venue
Step 10: Plan <strong>for</strong> language issues
Step 11: Plan your work as a team
Step 12: Develop a team contract
Step 13: Plan post-workshop follow up
Step 14: Organize materials
Step 1: Build Your Team
Start off by bringing together organizations that would like to work together to plan and implement
the community assessment process, and also initiate advocacy and actions based on the
assessment’s findings. This team could include organizations of people living with HIV and/or
HIV-positive women as well as nongovernmental organizations involved in human rights, women’s
rights, HIV and AIDS, or health issues. This group of stakeholders would also include members of
parliament (MPs) who are active on HIV and AIDS or women’s issues (see box on next page).
HIV-positive women should play a lead role on the team and in all stages of the community
assessment process: designing the process, implementing the field activities, analyzing the data and
initiating follow-up advocacy.
During these initial planning meetings, find consensus on the assessment’s objectives, scope and
how the findings will be used. Help each group understand how they will benefit from the project and
how they are expected to contribute.
These planning meetings will start the dialogue between the different groups involved in the
community assessment, and build close working relations between HIV-positive women and the
parliamentarians.
16 Chapter B: Planning and Preparation