Overview

Who: Both Medical Assistant and Public Health Nurse

When: During outreach, health days/celebration, as part of campaign/event

Supporting Tools: Outreach, Local campaigns and events, Annex 7

A community demonstration provides an opportunity for the PHC service provider to share skills and knowledge by directly showing community members how to carry out certain activities. Community demonstrations are important as they

• Provide community members with experiences of real events and processes, thus helping them learn

• It increases the community members’ interest and motivation

• It enables the service provider to focus on a topic e.g. how to correctly wash hands.

• It installs a sense of ownership on the product or skill being shared.