Organizing Successful Nutrition and Health Programmes: Selected Process Models

In this last Unit of Course we take a good  look at ideas about organizing successful nutrition and he. education programmes. You already know  much of the theory and practice from your  study of the previous units and the practical activities you have conducted. But how do we integrate all  this in order to promote and sustain community action? In fact, how do we ultimately help  community  members  to  "take over" a programme? 

We must realize that  there are no ready-made recipes for  success. A strategy that works in one situation may fail in another. We are using the term "process  model" here  to indicate a flow chart or sequence of steps which could help us to achieve a particular aim. The processes are organized according to different levels of involvement with the community. The more our involvement with the community, the  more we let them  control the process. As you will find on reading the unit, we have  given examples of Levels I to IV. Try  to  put down examples of programmes  working at these levels from  your own experience. Or alternatively gather  information from field level functionaries in  your area. This should help you to arrive at some ideas how you can organize a good nutrition and  health education and action programme. 

Objectives 

After studying this units, you should be able to 

• differentiate between levels of community  involvement in  nutrition and health education and action programmes 
• list ways in which to increase  involvement of community members 
• describe strategies for sustaining community involvement