Key Points
- The main objective of community dialogue is to stimulate and sustain changes from within. This is achieved through generating genuine individual and collective community concerns through shared analysis of social systems and structures responsible for challenges facing the community.
- Through the community dialogue, communities develop action plans on the 4 risk factors to NCDs (SNAP) to change their situation and act on these plans with support from the island and urban councils.
- Community dialogue provides an opportunity for a participatory led approaches that provide space for listening, inclusion, agreement and expression of concerns from all members.
- Community dialogue gives space for interaction between community members and health workers, to build consensus on change, follow up progress of set plans and take action for change.
- Community dialogue offers an opportunity for community members to provide feedback on the service provided expressing user satisfaction and discussing way to improve.
- It is important to engage all relevant sectors and stakeholders in the process Use Triple A Cycle (Assessment-Analysis-Action) process which is one of the ways to facilitate this discussion and is a good approach to generate solutions (e.g. the solutions for nutrition program could be from WASH or Agriculture or Social Assistance etc.)