COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY | 2nd ORDER THEMES | 1st ORDER THEMES |
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Formative research, Community sensitisation and approval processes | • Research naivety/inexperience • Flexibility of the CE plan | • Informal and non-specific community entry processes |
• Mistrust of researchers coming into the community | ||
• Community and stakeholder involvement in study design and planning phase | ||
• Lack of understanding study by school children and some parents | ||
• Targeted engagement activities | ||
Communication and Advisory Mechanisms • Community Advisory Boards formed • Community Liaison Officers hired • Biannual community Feedback Sessions • Community Leaders & Stakeholder monthly updates | • Responsibility sharing • Sustained solicitation of opinions of ordinary community • Community input into the CE • Stakeholder involvement | • Community involved in decision making of an appropriate strategy |
• Community selected CAB members | ||
• CAB requests training | ||
• CAB took over the communication duties of the CLO | ||
• CAB & LCL disseminating information to communities | ||
Empowerment & Education • Citizen Science Indigenous Knowledge Systems Groups • Community Research Assistants • Community Training on Malaria & Schistosomiasis • Community training on Research Processes | • Demystification of the research process • Community involvement • Community empowerment • Responsibility sharing | • Community expected direct tangible benefits from MABISA |
• Community requests training in snail and mosquito vector identification | ||
• Community plans to continue with snail and mosquito vector identification | ||
• CRAs considered as a “community resource” by the community members | ||
• Community selected CRAs | ||
Post Study Sustainable Activities • Community Action Plans developed • Engaged Policy Makers • Forming community stakeholder partnerships | • Uptake of MABISA study activities | • Continued surveillance of water points by the CRAs and trained individuals in Gwanda |
• CBMEWS adapted for the Disaster Risk Management Ward Committee | ||
• uMkhanyakude tribal council requested to use the maps of spatial distribution of Schistosomiasis and infected water bodies | ||
• NGOs engaged and utilising study data | ||
• Community Action Plans developed |