This document outlines the role of community participation in public health. It defines key terms like civil society and community. A community is a group sharing beliefs and understanding. Community participation is defined by WHO as enabling people to be actively involved in issues affecting their lives. Benefits include education, advocacy, mobilizing resources, and problem identification. Barriers include lack of control and issues being non-goal oriented. Recommendations are to represent public interests in policy, ensure equitable resource allocation, and leverage existing community institutions like religious groups and schools.

1. MSPH 2014- 2015 (evening)
Dr Moazzam A Khan

2. Outline
 Introduction and definitions
 Role of community participation
 Recommendation & Surveillance of the system

3. Define Civil Society & Organizations
 “non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations that
have a presence in public life, expressing the interests
and values of their members or others, based on ethical,
cultural, political, scientific, religious or philanthropic
considerations. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
therefore refer to a wide of array of organizations:
community groups, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), labor unions, indigenous groups, charitable
organizations, faith-based organizations, professional
associations, and foundations”.
 http://go.worldbank.org/4CE7W046K0

4. Community A Shared Understanding
 A Community: “is that group of a race of people
sharing beliefs that allow a single shared
understanding that insensibly incorporates the racial
character of the group.
 Hence all communities, from tribes to nations, are
founded by a particular race with a unique
understanding “
A Study Of Our Decline' by P Atkinson

5.  Occupation
 Language
 Beliefs
 Religion
 Values
 Terrt0ry
 Culture

6. WHO define
Community participation
 a process by which people are enabled to become
actively and genuinely involved in defining the issues of
concern to them, in making decisions about factors
that affect their lives, in formulating and implementing
policies, in planning, developing and delivering services
and in taking action to achieve change’
(WHO, 2002, p.10).

8.  Education & Advocacy
 Social Behaviors

9.  Mobilization of community
 Resource Identification

10.  Problem Identification
 Bridging to any agency

11. PARTICIPATION ISSUES
 Spectrum of program should be
broad
 Aim of participation should be
well being for whole community
 Participation should be
voluntary
 Participation should be on
different stages of welfare
program

12. PARTICIPIENT ISSUES
 Participants should have control over
development initiatives
 Participants should be resourceful
 Participants must be issue and goal
oriented

13.  As an individual I could do nothing. As a group
we could find a way to solve each other’s
problems”
 http://psychosocial.actalliance.org

14. Suggestions
and
Recommendations

15. Policy making
 Representing public interest in policy making.
 Developing policy consensus and enhancing public
support.
 Promoting equity in provision of services and funds.

16. Allocation of resources
 Equity and Equality .
 Need based resource allocation.
 Mobilizing and organizing community for financial
assistance.
 Initiating Public accountability and transparency in
resource allocation.

17. SOME COMMON SENSE
 Prioritize the urgency of the needed help
 Intercommunity advocacy( different age groups, gender)
 Identify own sources and limitation to combat that public
health challenge
 Seeking appropriate help
 Civil society
 Government

18. GETTING STARTED
 Bridging, persuation
 Helping the helping agency in understanding the local
sensitivities
 Trust building
 Appropriate timing to initiate the goal achievement
 Prioritization of population(housing, microfinance etc for
marginalized on priority)

19. ROLE OF EXSISTING CUMMUNITY
INSTITUTIONS
 Religious institutions
 Schools
 bhaithak / elders/ jirga
 CHW
 Dispensary /BHU/RHC
 Doctors
 Families

20. Reference
 World bank.
 Who
 A Study Of Our Decline' by P Atkinson
 Alma Ata declaration
 Google photoshare