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

➌ WARM-UP AND INTRODUCTIONS (10 minutes): Organize a warm-up game to break the ice and
help participants get to know each other.
Get to Know You Game. Ask participants to divide into pairs and give pairs a task. Then <strong>for</strong>m new
pairs and assign a new task, and so on. Examples of the instructions are given below:
a) Find a new partner. Greet them as if you have not seen them <strong>for</strong> a long time.
b) Find a new partner and tell them something about yourself.
c) Find a new partner. [Then give the following directions and asks pairs to follow: “Front to front.
Back to back. Side to side. Foot to foot. Hand to hand…. .]
d) Form a big circle. Ask each person going round the circle to introduce his/her rhyming name.
➍ OBJECTIVES (5 minutes): Explain the objectives <strong>for</strong> the workshop (see below).
During the earlier workshops each group produced a number of outputs: body maps, a list of
priority health problems, a list of services available, a list of things that prevent women from
accessing services and ideas <strong>for</strong> improving services.
The objectives <strong>for</strong> today’s workshop are to:
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Review these outputs.
Work together in deciding on things we can do to solve some of these problems.
Raise questions about specific diseases and get some answers.
➎ GROUND RULES (5 minutes): Put up a list of the ground rules developed by all of the groups.
Then say – “The workshop process will be similar. We encourage everyone to talk openly, to listen to and
respect each other’s views, and to keep things you hear in this workshop confidential.”
Session 2: Sharing Outputs of Different Groups
Facilitator’s Note: During this step the different groups share the major outputs they produced
during the workshops; identify similarities and differences; and agree on priorities.
Things to Guard Against: Don’t let the service providers or community leaders dominate and make
sure that the views of women are heard and given full recognition.
Objectives:
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Share the outputs of the different groups and allow participants to learn from the analysis of
other groups.
Identify priority health issues, service gaps and barriers.
Time: 60 minutes
Materials: Body maps and lists of priority health issues. Lists of service gaps. Lists of barriers to
women accessing services
Preparation: Take all the lists on a topic and put them on the wall.
56 Chapter C: Facilitating <strong>Community</strong> Assessment Workshops