The CAPA Handbook: A "How-to" Guide for Implementing ... - basics

1.B CAPA MEETING:
The CAPA Meeting builds awareness of specific needs of children and of the interventions
that have been found to be most effective in achieving and maintaining good child health. The
meeting also is the opportunity for the community to select leaders and assign duties and to
establish a plan of action for CAPA in their own community.
OBJECTIVES:
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Sensitize community representatives on CAPA.
CAPA prepares plans and implements activities to improve child health and survival in
their communities
MATERIALS: CAPA training modules.
TASKS:
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Introduce participants to each other and to the facilitators and to formally register them as
CAPA members.
Set the level of expectations for all participants and define roles and responsibilities.
Select leaders and committees to facilitate the operation of CAPA.
Present strategies for community based interventions to reduce the impact of childhood
illnesses.
Develop a work plan with the help of facilitators that outlines specific community actions
to combat selected childhood illnesses.
Set an agenda and schedule for Post- CAPA Meeting and for CAPA Committee Monthly
Meetings.
Arrange for representation of the CAPA Committee at the CAPA Committee
Coordinating Forum, which is a joint meeting of representatives from all catchment areas
within the LGA.
** See Annex for an example of a CAPA Training agenda.
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