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3 Community-led Services

Figure 3.10 Sample community committee report
COMMUNITY COMMITTEE REPORT
Location: ____________________________ Date: ____________________________
Area

Issue
Community reports
that some community
outreach workers who
do outreach in the
train station still only
provide a maximum
of 5 condoms during
outreach.

Proposed resolution
1. Outreach coordinator to work with community
outreach workers to provide the number of condoms
required by each sex worker and not limit condom
distribution.

Closure or lack of
service availability at
referral facilities or
through outreach

Government Clinic on
Central Rd. often will
not accept people after
15:00.

1. Write letter to health officer documenting problem.
Ask NGO director to sign along with community
representative.

Service quality
problems, e.g. poor
treatment at facilities,
discrimination in referral
services, unresolved
problems at safe spaces

Nurses at Central Rd.
1. NGO health officer and community representative
should bring this up during visit with Chief Medical
doing initial questioning
Officer to ensure compliance with STI treatment
of patients in a public
protocol.
area, not a private room.

Inability of community
outreach workers to
carry condoms at sites
or on the street because
of police, etc.

Police harassment of
1. NGO field officer and four community outreach
community outreach
workers to schedule meeting with police to discuss
workers with condoms at
and resolve.
bus station.

Issues with supply,
quality or quantity
(condoms/lubricants,
test kits, drugs at sites
or across sites)

2. Follow up at train station to ensure change.

2. NGO health officer and community representative
should visit Chief Medical Officer to advocate for
compliance with agreement on later opening hours
signed in May.

2. Follow up with community to determine if clinic is
compliant with policy.

Service overlap by other No problems.
providers that may be
causing confusion

N/A

1. Report on number
1. Ensure that community leaders get information from
Violence response
of incidents was
crisis response team members and double-check it
activities, perpetrators
not given at last
with NGO data officer before monthly community
of violence and trends in
community meeting at
meetings.
violence.
safe space.
2. Outreach supervisor to check and ensure that
2. Response team
reimbursements are made within one week
members taking
survivors to hospital
have not been
reimbursed for
transport costs.
Any other issues:

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