User fee schemes have also enabled health facility management to build linkages with the community.
Schools are creating stronger linkages with the community, with tangible results: Security has been beefed up and communities have raised funds to erect protective fences around their schools, among other infrastructural developments.
Linkages with the community were established in the form of feedback committees and hospital/health center management committees to promote participation and joint discussions on customer needs and preferences.
Prior to the now common community advisory boards in research in LMIC, the Majengo STD Program established linkages with the community through elected peer leaders, who engaged in dialogue and negotiations with investigators about terms and conditions for participation in the research.
Mr Otiende was taken through the Child-Friendly School concept, with the training focusing on how to make classes inclusive and child-friendly, how to establish a safe and protective school, promoting equity and equality, promoting health and nutrition and how to create linkages with the community and to forge partnerships.
Partnerships and collaborative linkages within the community setting support the enhancement of existing services in collaboration with the ISU Senior HealthMobile.
Capacity building trainings support community-based adolescent engagement, help mobilise adolescent clubs and establish linkages with the wider community.
In this example, a new process for enhancing the linkage process -- meeting with the community provider was codified into the standard procedures for the probation/parole officers to follow in developing their supervision plan.
The roles of the decision-makers were intended to: ensure the approach to research was appropriate for the context and the research questions were relevant; provide linkages with the PHC communities under study; contextualize the research findings; and, to facilitate dissemination and uptake of the research findings.
24 25 Evidence suggests that health management committees at the village level have been effective in reducing maternal complications through promoting linkages of healthcare providers with the community.
