African Red Cross & Red Crescent Health Initiative 2001
National Society Mapping Excercise: What should we be mapping?
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| Anton Chilufya is one of 1,800 Zambian Red Cross volunteers who participated in a measels vaccination campaign. (p0167)
Photo: Marko Kokic / Candian Red Cross |
Branches, districts, local areas where NS has representation
- Branches, districts, and local areas which the NS wishes to develop.
- The number of staff, indicating whether paid or volunteer in each of these localities.
- The number of volunteers in each of these localities.
- The type and extent of activities supported by the NS in each of these localities.
- Names of donors and other partners supporting these activities in each locality.
- Location of local health facilities (health centres, maternities, dispensaries, posts for First Aid referrals) for referrals.
- Data on immunization coverage, STI infections, HIV prevalence by locality if possible.
- Categorize each branch as: weak, medium or strong. This is important for planning capacity building through 2010.
- Show locations of coaches and their areas of responsibilities.
- Show locations where networks of volunteers are organised and functioning and locations where these need to be created or strengthened in future.
Organize a country team with a consultant to conduct mapping (use the ARCHI 2010 National Society mapping exercise*)
- Capacity Assessment
Outline present structures of the RC organization in country at all levels:
- Number of workers in each category, and
- Brief outline of present duties (main responsibilities), and
- Percent of effort devoted to each of these duties, and
- Paid or volunteer, and
- Outline of reporting relationships and lines of communication
- Community assessment
- Community based organizations and health care workers (MOH, Village Health Committees, Mothers Clubs, Community Health Workers (CHWs), Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs), Traditional Healers)
- Health problems as identified and prioritized by the community
- Health centres (locations, services offered, stocks, general condition
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- Outreach health activities offered and frequency (esp. Expanded Programme on Immumizations (EPI)
- Challenges the area presents (i.e., distances to the Health Centers)
- Visit ongoing and current RC activities
Visit other health activities in area by other organizations
- Identify present and potential partners
i.e., MOH, Village Health Committee (VHC), UN Agencies, NGO's
- Look at health indicators once priorities identified by community
- Sources: Country and district levels: UNICEF (in country report), WHO, EPI reports, MOH district level data,
- Indicators: immunization coverage, cases of HIV, malaria mortality, etc…
- See Sample Terms of Reference* for National Society and Capacity Development
i.e., to work with in country team to conduct a problem analysis and explore strategy options, programme approach, monitoring and evaluation, management plan
- Consider visiting another NS which has a successful activity
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