Implemented in the Republic of Guinea, the intervention aimed to build the capacity of community-level committees to heighten awareness about maternal health risks and to promote use of professional maternal health services throughout pregnancy and childbirth.
The way Amref works is that it builds up the committees at local community level – the village health teams, the parent teacher associations, the health unit management committees, the water management committees, the farmers groups.
Activities included strengthening the conducting of regular village health and nutrition days (VHNDs) and forming village level committees for community monitoring of health services and improved accountability of the health system.
The declaration states that participation can occur at the community level through community primary health committees or at the individual level by training community members as volunteer health workers (1).
UNICEF is committed to fighting against child trafficking through tracing families, developing treaties, setting up local committees at community level, supporting information, education as well as reinsertion programmes.
There were, however, no linkages with other parties like DAMSC, which operates at community level and has formed HIV/AIDS committees at the District and village levels.
At the community level, a community-based rehabilitation (CBR) committee identifies children with disabilities who are unable to attend school.
"The decision was made to turn part of that into a community level and now there is a activities committee to organize events like concerts there.
Child Welfare Committees To sustainably address the issues affecting vulnerable young people, Child Welfare Committees have been formed at the community level across Sierra Leone.
HFCs are only one of the mechanisms used to enhance community accountability and engagement in Kenya, with others including public meetings, and the Government's Community Strategy, which aims to deliver services at the community level through community health workers and village health committees.
