Community Engagement and Involvement
We have been conducting CEI activities to work together with the community as our future activities shall build on this. We have identified and mapped key actors and groups that need to be involved.
Since Feb 2021 we have been constant virtual communication with the communities and in Sept 2021 we conducted 9 meetings with different stakeholders. We tried to be very inclusive and so we decided to have meetings with the local leaders and NGOs, school teachers and school nurses, children, parents and patients, across Namobuddha and Kathmandu, and members of the community from lower caste in Namobuddha, Nepal.
- Community and people living with NCDs
- Parents, teachers and children at schools
- Service providers
- Ministry senior officer and local governments
Face to face activities were between 10 to 16 September. I.T. communication were several times between Feb until now
Name of the organizations or groups of the stakeholders |
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Local leaders, school teachers and children of at Namobudhha, Kavre district (which is about an hour and half drive away from Kathmandu): face to face activities, focus groups. CEI with local leaders and common villagers was conducted at the front yard of the house of one of the community leaders. The discussion with the group of people with NCDs from marginalized community took place at the community hall within their village (was facilitated by local FCHV- Female Community Health Volunteers, and local health post in-charge). We met the schoolteachers and students in the school compound. |
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School Health nurses of Kathmandu: face to face activities. We met the school nuses in the school compound. |
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NGO Rural Women Service Center (RWSC): working with community groups and organization for capacity building. It has networks all over district of Makawanpur and currently over 40,000 are active members. Telephone conversation followed by face to face meetings. |
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Individual patient: We conducted face to face meetings supported by RWSC. |
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Ministry senior officer: Telephone conversation and face to face meeting. |
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Nepal Medical, Nursing and Public Health Association: Telephone meetings. |
