"It is…thanks to the many Franciscas supporting and guiding hundreds of Madalenas that child malnutrition can be handled or prevented at the community level," says UNICEF Representative in Angola Koenraad Vanormelingen.
"We know the most effective way to save children's lives is by investing at the community level," said Olivia Yambi, UNICEF Representative in Kenya, who accompanied President Chissano on the field trip.
Third, this is clinic based thus not necessarily representative of characteristics and changes at community level.
In the project zone interviews and discussions were held with the UNICEF project team, representatives of public sector and civil society organisations at regional, local and community level, and with individual community members.
We developed a scale to measure abortion stigma at the community level, examine its prevalence and explore factors associated with abortion stigma in a nationally representative sample.
Awareness of issues relating to benefit sharing at the community level was explored by interviewing respondents drawn from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)s and other community representative groups including members of Community Advisory Boards (CABs) and the KEMRI Community Representative (KCR) group.
Representatives would need to be arranged into a hierarchy, with lower level representatives electing, setting the agenda of, and holding accountable higher level representatives.
At country level, discussions were held with UNICEF staff and a wide range of stakeholders including Government staff (at central and decentralized levels), representatives from Development Partner agencies and NGO's, and communities.
Among the adult participants will be high-level representatives of the three branches of government, civil society, the academic community, and the media.
The session closed with a panel discussion, bringing together Government officials, technical experts and representatives from both community-level and international organizations, together with child representatives attending the Seminar.
