The effectiveness of the Competence Approach in the struggle against Malaria

Mr Kevin Hughes, NGSA Programme Manager for West Africa, greatly values the Self Assessment tool. « We use it systematically. It leads to massive community participation, and especially to women’s participation. In this traditionally male society, the women’s voices were lost ... the Self Assessment has made it heard”.

Mr Kevin Hughes, underlines that this tool also provides information about issues difficult to measure, such as the quality of comunication and ownership of the fight against malaria by the communities.

“It is a way to know if our interventions have a real impact. I was impressed by the sense of ownership I saw in the communities; the level of involvement of children in the schools, and the confidence of the women who now speak so confidently before the chiefs.”

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