Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Community needs assessment

Community consultative meeting towards assessing community needs for the purpose of empowering girls and women



There are various challenges faced in the community and these were identified using the participatory method, participants were asked to identify what problems are in the community, this was a brainstorming exercise. Participants came up with a number of challenges including the following.

  • Poverty – lack of money to cater for family, payment for school fees,
  • Unemployment
  • Corruption in government and amongst people – Fear of going to a government office for help because one does not have money to give away.
  • Poor feeding
  • Lack of income
  • Lack of guidance
  • Lack of land for farming
  • Lack of health facilities - there is infrastructure. However, drugs and services are poor. Sometimes the drugs are available but poor public relations
  • Limited research about diseases in humans – Sometimes researchers come but they work on issues the community has not informed them about not what the community is facing.