Through having the opportunity to speak about the needs of PLWHA and developing strategies to address these needs with community members beyond their immediate family, participants were able to reframe HIV from a family-level issue to a community-level issue.
Those interviewed who were not working at the frontline but at senior executive or management levels had potentially more impact on policy implementation decisions yet had less knowledge about community level issues.
Building community engagement in climate issues, ongoing 2014: The Spring 2014 'relaunch' will be built on by work to increase engagement in climate change issues at a community level.
Environmental interventions emphasize community organization around an issue and provision of goods or services at a community level.
The mixture of the methods ensured that complementary data was collected from a variety of individuals, village experts, and community members to explore issues in more depth and to build a community level perspective.
At a community level, reducing the breeding sites is essential.
"There are few issues that have the potential to divide like this one and it's not being talked about at a community level," he said.
While more interventions and programs that address micro and community-level issues relevant to incarceration are needed, there are examples of successful individual-level programs that aim to provide solutions to various problems caused by incarceration.
At the Peripheral Health Unit at Koaquima the Regional Director met with members of the Mother's club who are promoting the continuum of care from pre-natal through under five at community level covering issues such as hygiene promotion, good nutritional practices for both pregnant women and new born, exclusive breastfeeding and immunisation.
Changes must also be made at the community level to address issues such as infrastructure and financial resources to ensure access to health care.
The past 10 15 years have seen a significant increase in the number of studies addressing resilience issues at community level from a variety of perspectives, and although the resilience of communities in dealing with disturbance feature strongly in these studies, less work appears to have been undertaken at the interface between community resilience and land degradation.
