Equally innovative is Potion's work in community information systems.
Virtual Campfire enables the flexible realization of community information systems with divers and complex multimedia content such as videos, images, and 3D data on smart mobile device.
Community information systems were found in both cases to have relevant biophysical, socio-economic, and market data that could be used for further analysis on impact, baselines, leakage, and other CDM requirements.
Additional positive impacts can be assumed by enriching the community health information system for a longer duration.
Today it also includes mass immunization for polio eradication, newborn care, referral of eligible cases to health facilities, and regular record-keeping for updating the community health information system [ 7, 12].
CBHIS: community based health information system; CHC: community health committee; CU: community unit; HF: health facility The study found that CHWs in all communities were available at baseline and endline and they had been trained on various topics as stipulated by the Community Health Strategy guidelines.
The South African case study from the UThukela District Child Survival Project in KwaZulu-Natal, illustrates how this approach was used in co-constructing local meanings for child health indicators in a community-based information system.
Part of a multi-country effort, the Millennium Villages Project is implementing a routine community-level information system in Senegal, able to detect maternal deaths in real-time and uncover clinical and social factors contributing to mortality.
CBHIS: community based health information system; CU: community unit Dialogue was the major component of the Community Health Strategy based on evidence from the community dialogue days, which attracted more participants as compared to community action days (100 compared to 17).
The strategy engages both the service delivery system and the communities served in an iterative process of dialogue, informed by community based information systems, to synergize efforts and motivate both the service consumers and providers towards health status improvement.
