Areas of work

PAWEM supports meaningful participation of communities and people with lived experience in health programmes, research, policy development and service delivery.

Services include:

• Community engagement and mobilisation
• Community advisory boards and PPI groups
• Stakeholder consultations
• Community dialogues and forums
• Faith and traditional leader engagement
• Youth and adolescent engagement
• Community feedback and accountability mechanisms
• Community-led monitoring and social accountability

PAWEM contributes to research that generates practical evidence for improving health programmes and policies.

Services include:

• Community-based research
• Implementation research
• Operational research 
• Community and stakeholder consultations
• Research participant / community engagement
• Research coordination and field implementation
• Data collection and field supervision
• Dissemination of research findings

PAWEM contributes to research that generates practical evidence for improving health programmes and policies.

Services include:

• Community-based research
• Implementation research
• Operational research 
• Community and stakeholder consultations
• Research participant / community engagement

PAWEM works with communities and health-sector partners to improve awareness, prevention, access to services and accountability around infectious diseases.

Areas include:

• HIV prevention and community engagement
• Hepatitis B awareness and prevention
• NCDs awareness and referral 
• Youth and adolescent health
• Community mobilisation for testing and prevention
• Stigma and discrimination reduction
• Community feedback on health services
• Support for national disease-control programmes

PAWEM creates opportunities for young people to participate in health decision-making and community action.

Services include:

• Youth-led advocacy
• Adolescent engagement
• Youth advisory boards
• Youth leadership development
• SRHR education and engagement
• Healthy relationships programming
• Youth climate and health initiatives
• Digital engagement and communication

Services include:

• Climate change and health education
• Community climate-health resilience
• Youth climate leadership
• Climate-related health-risk communication
• Community early-warning and reporting mechanisms
• Climate-health advocacy
• Environmental and climate justice
• Community disaster preparedness
• Digital tools for climate-health communication

PAWEM connects communities with decision-makers to strengthen health policies and accountability.

Services include:

• Policy analysis and advocacy
• Community participation in policy development
• Parliamentary and government engagement
• Health-sector accountability
• Regulatory engagement
• Patient safety advocacy

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