Stakeholders Workshop: A photo essay
In preparation for the meeting, Executive Director Kevin Gibbons and Monitoring & Evaluation Officer Bridget Nanyonjo met with district health leaders from HAC partner clinics that would be attending the meeting in order to have a more in depth discussion with them one on one. Bridget is seen above with female health workers at HAC partner Health Centre 3 Bwendero in the first photo. In the second photo, Kevin is meeting with Jimmy Kazibwe, Clinical Officer at Health Centre 3 Mugoye.
HAC outreach clinic sign outside of the Stakeholders Workshop which was hosted at the HAC partner organization KAFOPHAN office in Kalangala town on Buggala Island.
Miiro “Mpola Mpola” Deo, HAC Field Officer, Kalangala, helps to lead main discussions about, past and current successes and lessons to be learned for areas for improvement in the HAC model with district health leaders, HAC field staff, and other community members.
Livingstone Musoke, a counselor with HAC partner organization Kalangala Comprehensive Public Health Services Project, presents on his experience working with HAC outreach clinics and the positive responses and impacts in remote villages.
Meeting participants are divided into teams of community members, health workers, and partners to discuss their unique challenges from their perspectives and brainstorm solutions.
Motorcycle taxi driver Mike Nsubuga explains some of the problems and solutions from the community perspective. Many groups stressed the importance of keeping time and improving coordination between health workers and community members.
Kalangala District HIV Focal Person Dr. Edward Muwanga discusses how the difficulties of medicine stockouts and staff limitations at the health facilities can interrupt outreach clinic activities.
Scovia Namaganda, in-charge of Health Centre 3 Bwendero, discusses the challenges that she and her colleagues have faced in bringing care to remote villages and gives some ideas for how HAC and community members can help make their work easier, specifically with improved coordination and giving health workers their travel allowances on time.
