Publications
Summary of publication
The primary intention of the Program was to model different approaches to community-based responses to AI so that effective approaches could be adapted or adopted by stakeholders and successful models expanded. These stakeholders could be at the national or local government levels or key technical agencies operating in the country. The Program was not intended to be an implementation program where the target beneficiaries would only be in CARE Program locations.
Overall, the Program has contributed effectively to the reach of national AI control programs. Mostly, this has been achieved by facilitating the connection between the local level government and the communities they serve. The Program has brought about community adoption of preventative behaviours, as well as revitalizing volunteer networks to deliver preventative messages (to a range of target groups) and to report on community-level health events. Most of the benefits realised so far were limited to the Program locations in which CARE operates rather than making substantive progress toward adoption of successful approaches more broadly.