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The BALatrine Project: Community Engagement; Empowerment; and Capacity building

The BALatrine Project: Community Engagement; Empowerment; and Capacity building. Prof Don Stewart, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. What is Community Engagement?.

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The BALatrine Project: Community Engagement; Empowerment; and Capacity building

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  1. The BALatrine Project:Community Engagement;Empowerment; and Capacity building Prof Don Stewart, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

  2. What is Community Engagement? • any process that involves the public in problem-solving or decision making and uses the public input to make more informed decisions. • Engaging with the community is more than just consulting. Community engagement includes informing, consulting with, involving, collaborating with and empowering the community.

  3. What is ‘Engagement’ • Inclusiveness • Reaching out • Mutual respect • Integrity • Affirming diversity • Adding value

  4. What is‘Community Empowerment’? • A social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. • A process that fosters power (that is, the capacity to implement) in people, for use in their own lives, their communities, and in their society, by acting on issues that they define as important.

  5. What is‘Capacity Building’? • Sometimes described as the ‘invisible work’ of health promotion. • It is the ‘behind the scenes’ efforts by practitioners that increases the likelihood that effective health promotion programs will be sustained. • An approach to the development of sustainable skills, organizational structures, resources and commitment to health improvement in health and other sectors, to prolong and multiply health gains many times over.

  6. Capacity building is an approach to development that builds independence. It can be: • a ‘means to an end’, where the purpose is for others to take on programs • an ‘end’ in itself, where the intent is to enable others, from individuals through to government • departments, to have greater capacity to work together to solve problems • a process, where capacity building strategies are routinely incorporated as an important element of effective practice.

  7. From Buzz Words to Practice! • The BALatrine project • Adoption and acceptability • Changes in behaviour

  8. Construction • a septic tank or pit; • a concrete plate, or mould; • and a removable U-bend water closet/barrier.

  9. Were latrines accepted in ‘intervention’ village? • 99% (396) were happy about the new latrine program • 82% (328) considered that they were actively participating in the project • 89% (357) started using it as soon as it was dry • 7% (28) were still using the river • 94.8% (379) were prepared to carry water in buckets to flush the latrine • 95.3% (381) were prepared to clean it • 94% (376) were prepared to clean up after children Overall, a picture of acceptability ….

  10. Importance of engagement, empowerment, capacity-building

  11. & Support

  12. “When meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy for it, but instead, a means of preventing it.” (Louis Pasteur cited in Dishman, Washburn and Heath, 2004)

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