01 • COMMUNITY-LED MONITORING
Communities Generate Evidence
Supported CBOs and CSOs engage service providers, collect and analyse community information, validate findings, give feedback, identify service gaps and follow up agreed corrective actions.
MARPI PROGRAMMES
Community Empowerment
Communities help identify problems, shape solutions and hold services accountable.
MARPI's community empowerment approach strengthens community participation, leadership, accountability and ownership of health programmes. It combines Community-Led Monitoring (CLM), capacity building, community dialogues, stakeholder engagement, advocacy, peer structures and follow-up on agreed actions.
Community-Led Monitoring
Capacity Building
Community Dialogues
Stakeholder Engagement
MARPI's 2025 programme approach placed communities, CBOs, CSOs, peer leaders, service providers and local stakeholders at the centre of identifying barriers and improving services.
CLMCommunity-Led MonitoringCommunity data → validation → advocacy → follow-up
CBO / CSOCapacity StrengtheningMentorship, coaching and supportive supervision
DialogueSafe Community PlatformsPeer-led discussion, information and service access
ActionStakeholder AccountabilityFeedback, agreed actions and follow-up
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT MODEL
Four Connected Ways MARPI Strengthens Community Voice
The 2025 Annual Report shows that community empowerment is not a single meeting or outreach. MARPI combines community monitoring, stronger organisations, dialogue and stakeholder action to improve access, quality and accountability.
02 • CAPACITY BUILDING
Stronger Community Organisations
MARPI provides mentorship, coaching and supportive supervision so CSOs/CBOs strengthen systems, governance, financial management, service quality and adherence to programme standards.
03 • COMMUNITY DIALOGUES
Safe Spaces to Discuss Barriers
Facility-based dialogues create supportive platforms for peer-led discussion, information sharing, community feedback and access to basic HIV-prevention information and services.
04 • STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
Turn Feedback Into Action
MARPI works with district health teams, health facilities, DICs, peer leaders, CBOs/CSOs and implementing partners to validate issues, coordinate solutions and strengthen referral, quality and accountability.
COMMUNITY-LED MONITORING
How MARPI Implements CLM
Under the 2025 Global Fund GC7 work, MARPI supported CSOs/CBOs to conduct Community-Led Monitoring in selected health facilities and Drop-in Centres using a cycle that moves from engagement and community evidence to advocacy and follow-up.
Engage Stakeholders
Engage community organisations, service providers, facilities and relevant local stakeholders before monitoring starts.
Orient Providers
Orient service providers and participating structures on the monitoring process, purpose and expected collaboration.
Collect Community Data
Communities gather information on service experience, access barriers, quality gaps and priorities for improvement.
Analyse & Validate
Findings are analysed and discussed through validation and feedback meetings to confirm the issues that need action.
Issue-Based Advocacy
Validated service gaps are translated into focused advocacy with the stakeholders who can address them.
Follow Up Actions
MARPI and community partners follow up agreed actions so CLM leads to service improvement rather than stopping at data collection.
CAPACITY BUILDING
Building Stronger Organisations and Better Services
The 2025 report describes continuous mentorship, coaching and supportive supervision for CSOs and CBOs. Capacity building strengthens the knowledge, skills and organisational systems needed to deliver quality, context-specific services and sustain community-led action.
- Mentorship and coaching for CSOs/CBOs and community structures.
- Supportive supervision focused on service quality and adherence to standards and protocols.
- Strengthening governance, financial-management and organisational systems.
- Building the skills of health workers, peer educators and community actors.
- Small grants enabling CBOs/CSOs to implement health priorities, mobilisation, advocacy and community monitoring.
DIALOGUE + STAKEHOLDER ACTION
From Community Experience to Joint Solutions
Community dialogues and stakeholder engagement give MARPI a practical bridge between what communities experience and what service providers, districts and partners can change.
Listen to Experience
Peer-led discussions and community feedback make service barriers visible to programme teams and decision-makers.
Protect Rights & Access
Community evidence supports advocacy to reduce stigma, discrimination and structural barriers to services.
Coordinate Stakeholders
Districts, facilities, DICs, CBOs/CSOs, peer leaders and implementing partners coordinate around identified needs and referrals.
Track Commitments
Validation, feedback and follow-up help move agreed actions from discussion into measurable service improvement.
Why this matters: The 2025 Annual Report describes Community Empowerment as strengthening participation, leadership, accountability and ownership of health programmes. MARPI therefore treats communities as partners in programme design, monitoring and improvement—not only as recipients of services.
CONNECTED PROGRAMMES
Community Empowerment Supports the Whole MARPI Model
CLM, dialogue, community capacity and stakeholder action strengthen prevention, outreach, peer navigation, key population programming and service quality across MARPI.
Communities help improve services.
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