Integrated Community Services for Tuberculosis Patients and Their Families – SCI-TB
Summary
The project aims to enhance the capacity of health and social service organizations, particularly in the field of tuberculosis (TB), to develop integrated methodologies for delivering specialized services that better meet patient needs. This involves engaging all relevant stakeholders (local and central public institutions, NGOs, former patients) and conducting advocacy campaigns to contribute to better social and professional inclusion of patients.
The organizational development objective of the project is to enhance the skills of 6 ASPTMR employees so that they can provide (online, face-to-face, and phone) psycho-social counseling and legal assistance services for at least 100 TB patients or their families.
The main results are: a working methodology developed through a multi-stakeholder approach for providing integrated community services to meet the needs of TB patients and their families; increased capacity of former patients to engage in advocacy processes; enhanced capability of authorities to deliver integrated services to TB patients; and an advocacy campaign for the adoption and implementation of the methodology.
Goal and Activities
The project’s goal aligns with the program’s objective and outcome 3.
The project’s activities are:
- A1 Project Management
- A2 Information and Communication
- A3 Development of an online platform for TB patients
- A4 Needs and resources mapping for TB patients
- A5 Case Study Norway
- A6 Working methodology for providing integrated community services for TB patients and their families
- A7 Training courses for local stakeholders
- A8 Advocacy campaign for promoting the methodology at the national level
- A9 Development of employees’ competencies to provide services
Objectives
- Development of a participatory working methodology for providing integrated community services that address the needs of TB patients and their families, involving at least 60 local and national stakeholders, including at least 20 former TB patients, 15 national NGOs active in the field, over a period of 2 years. The methodology development will be carried out through a multi-stakeholder approach (involving local and national public actors, representatives of relevant NGOs, former patients) and will be based on county-level needs and resources maps for TB patients.
- Enhancement of the capacity of 60 local actors (NGOs, social workers, community nurses, health mediators, journalists, family doctors, nurses, psychologists, etc.) to provide integrated services for TB patients and their families within 18 months. This will be achieved through training courses, information sessions, workshops, and a TB patients’ forum.
- Conducting an advocacy campaign for the adoption by local and central public authorities of a working methodology for providing integrated community services dedicated to TB patients and their families, involving at least 15 representatives from civil society organizations and 20 former TB patients over a period of 16 months.
