Our results suggest that sensitization and outreach prior to the application process will be a critical dimension in making CDD programs more progressive.
The CHWs were also supposed to engage in community mobilization and sensitization for outreach services and health education, but these activities were rarely performed.
With illiteracy rates higher among older generations, sensitization and outreach activities about the detrimental effect of a forced child marriage should also be aimed to increase knowledge among girls' and boys' relatives.
Child rights sensitization and media outreach activities are being held throughout June and July.
Proactive approaches like sensitization, continuing education and outreach to researchers and other stakeholders in research could yield better outcomes than strict punitive treatment and humiliation.
CHW responsibilities include providing preventive interventions, treatment of common childhood illnesses (fever, diarrhea, and pneumonia), health education and community mobilization and sensitization, as well as supporting outreach services by the rural health staff.
Reasons for such a result lie in inadequate sensitization, high population mobility and low implementation of planned outreach vaccination sessions, the latter being due to limitations in funds generation or allocation at the health center level for the transportation of teams.
With the exception of a nurse-led educational outreach program in Broward County elementary schools (Borglund et al. 1999), there is little documentation of educational or sensitization programs in the studied jurisdictions.
Several provisions involve outreach.
