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Community-Led Response (CLR) is a technique initiated and implemented by local Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) and other civil society groups,
networks of Key Populations (KP), People Living With HIV (PLHIV), and other affected groups, or other community entities that gather quantitative and qualitative data about HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and the Covid-19. Community-led responses are therefore actions and strategies that seek to improve the health and human rights of their constituencies, that are specifically informed and. implemented by and for communities themselves and the
organisations, groups, and networks that represent them. The technique's focus remains on getting input from recipients of HIV services, Tuberculosis and Malaria in a routine and systematic manner that will translate into action and change.
Globally, there is a clarion call for countries to adopt CLR in a bid to come up with people-centred approaches to HIV response and other disease components including Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Covid-19. For instance, there have been some running campaigns on Communities making a difference in the response and this has gained traction over time in building community systems for quality healthcare service provision. Therefore, if a country comes up with robust mechanisms for CLR, it would translate into community empowerment and communities can play a critical role in terms of health service delivery through monitoring, documenting experiences, contributing through advocacy work, and provision of perceptions on how certain challenges around health care services can be addressed. More importantly, this will help in bridging the gap between communities and facilities.
In Zimbabwe, some shifts continue to gravitate towards the implementation of the CLR technique especially in organisations under the NANGO Health sector through Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) projects, Community Systems Strengthening (CSS), and investments in community structures through community cadres, peer educators, community ART refill groups and school clubs, etc.
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The focus of the study is to explore implications of the latest land and agricultural policy pronouncements, discourse and narratives by the new administration on smallholder farmers’ access and security on agricultural land. To gather the perspectives, learn and share experiences of farmers, particularly women, relating to tenure security and access to land, the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) together with the Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZILAN) conducted policy dialogues across the country on land tenure issues in the” new dispensation”. There is a shift from the previous administration’s standpoint in terms of land administration and agricultural growth strategy. Under the "new dispensation” the state is pushing for massive investments in all sectors of the economy. However, prioritisation of large scale farming will likely lead to land concentration by capital and land alienation of smallholder farmers, particularly women who do not take part in decision making. Furthermore, the renewed drive for industrial capital to take part in mineral exploitation will, without doubt, have devastating effects on the livelihoods of peasants, particularly those that depend on the land. Click the link below to read the complete study.
Rethinking-Community-Led-Response-in-Light-of-the-New-Global-Fund-Strategy.pdf