TB Prevention, Care, Mitigation Justice Communities of Practice-COP

 TB Prevention, Care, Mitigation Justice Communities of Practice-COP

Non-technology and technology-based mobilization is increasingly used to enhance management practices in the health sector. These include but are not limited to planned physical meetings, utilizing noticeboards, peer-networks formation, word-of-mouth, text-sharing, information systems, procurement systems and payment systems. To stimulate and accelerate shared learning around the utility and best practices of the mobilization innovations, the LUCUHECO in conjuction with the Advocacy Network Africa (AdNetA) propose a Community of Practice (CoP). 

This congregates grassroots-based community groups with the Public-Private Mix. In this milieu, people share concerns, interests, or passion for health promotion, health preservation and health services demand and delivery by interacting regularly with people undertaking similar pursuits. The CoP provides a forum for knowledge building, resource mobilization, information exchange, sustained interaction, referral network formation and sustenance, content curation, and professional networking which facilitates shared learning on processes, experiences, and evidence of effective performance of programmes/campaigns.

Through sharing within this community of practice we hope to enhance and inform national, regional, and global efforts toward eradication of poverty, harmful practices, HIV/TB and Malaria that grassroots-based organizations contribute to by fostering and supporting evidence-based and evidence-driven decision making in Sub Saharan Africa.

 

Our Goals and Objectives

Goals

• Establish and facilitate information exchange by connecting PWD-led communities to service providers, health workers, managers, providers, and funders.
• Promote, advance, and support grassroots-based knowledge formation around healthy living practices and learning mapping/monitoring efforts.
• Be interactive, collaborative, and available.

Objectives

• Promote coordination by sharing information on current activities, outcome reports or planned research activities.
• Encourage the use of appropriate implementation and monitoring approaches, including strengths, limitations, innovations, unintended consequences, and case studies.
• Collate and generate evidence on best practices on case studies.

The CoP is coordinated by a steering committee drawn from individuals from the CBOs, CSOs, NGOs, Local Government, academia, and private organizations. The CoP will focus on these topical areas.

• Scoping-Establish elements that promote an integral health promotion, preservation, and service structural organization
• Mapping — Mapping experiences in health promotion, health preservation, and health services.
• Curating – synthesizing and evaluating good practices, innovative approaches.
• Referral Networking- Packaging, sharing evidence and linking with like minded colleagues.
• Monitoring benchmarks-These will be tagged to physical, social, identity, gender, cultural, political and economic factors in order to elicit better standards of living.

Health, Preservation and Services Campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa

The grassroots can be elevated to levels of compliance by identifying and training campaign health workers (TB Cough tracers/Vaccinators/educators/VHTs) in seeking knowledge and skills that leverage healthy living lifestyles since many become peers to their fellow community members.

Research shows that trained peer health workers in Africa are more likely to have better understanding of their local areas and to make an impact or impression on others than someone from outside the community. They can be supported to engage in effective campaigns fostering and supporting evidence-based and evidence-driven decision making in Africa.

Grassroots based mobilization and linkages to referral for optimal benefits and quality life outcomes. This is a conceptual understanding of the potential impacts and linkage to health system performance, provider well-being, and patient outcomes.

We also aim to learn how these grassroots/community-based systems strengthen or disrupt the complex health system.

1.     What is the utility of the grassroots/community-based entities for improving / care performance ?  / Share evidence on the models used.

2.     What barriers have been experienced in rolling out grassroots/community-based services and how have these been bridged?

3.     How do we ensure that PWD-led grassroots/community-based services improve the performance of development/healthcare workers/TB/HIV/Malaria/COVID-19 vaccination campaigners through reporting effective performance?