3 Community-led Services
Figure 3.7 Micro-planning tool
Symbols are used in the place of names |
A purple“ priority” sticker reminds the community outreach worker to follow up |
Stickers cover up the risk and vulnerability factors that do not apply |
Stickers with symbols show the services provided for each week of the month: one-to-one contact / counselling, condoms, STI consultation |
This micro-planning tool is used by a community outreach worker to capture information about individual sex workers’ risk and vulnerability and the services they receive from the programme over the course of a month. The top row of this calendar has not been completed by the community outreach worker; the lower row shows how information on an individual sex worker is recorded.
• In the far left column the individual sex worker is identified using a colour-coded ID system( bars and circles), supported by a sticker with a symbol( e. g. pair of scissors) as a memory aid for the community outreach worker.
• In the middle of the chart, eight blue squares represent different risk and vulnerability factors( e. g. the top left square shows a condom with a cross through it, meaning inconsistent condom use). When the tool is being designed, such factors are decided upon through consultations with community outreach workers about risk and vulnerability in the community they are serving. The community outreach worker uses white stickers to cover the factors that do not apply to the individual sex worker, leaving the relevant ones exposed as a reminder to discuss them with the sex worker.
• When an individual sex worker has more than three risk and vulnerability factors, the community outreach worker adds a purple sticker to mark the individual for priority follow-up.
• In the four columns( one for each week of the month) on the right-hand side of the calendar, the community outreach workers uses stickers to record the services provided at each contact.
Source: Mukta Project, Pathfinder International, Maharashtra, India
Further considerations for outreach Using IDs: A form of identification for community outreach workers can help them in their work. For example, a credit card-sized programme ID card endorsed by a recognized public official, such as a senior police officer, can be shown to police who stop them.
However, some incentives for community outreach workers, such as t-shirts or other clothing that identify them as working for the programme may cause other sex workers to feel separate from them. Visible identifiers may also by association expose the sex workers they are meeting with.
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