Programme objective
Enable communities to document health access inequalities, set priorities and advocate collectively for fairer access.
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Health equity and access to services
Community Health Equity and Access
Underserved communities identify barriers to essential health services and organise evidence-informed advocacy for improvements.
A framework for action shaped by local priorities
How we work together
BarnMD uses Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR). In practice, residents help identify local priorities, understand the causes, decide what matters most, organise local leadership, take action and review the results.
- 01Getting to know the community
- 02Understanding local needs
- 03Agreeing priorities together
- 04Building local leadership
- 05Planning and taking action
- 06Reviewing progress together
- 07Planning for the future
Examples of activities
- ✓Participatory mapping of local health services
- ✓Community-led analysis of financial, geographic and social barriers
- ✓Service-user experience discussions with privacy protections
- ✓Prioritisation of access issues by residents
- ✓Community advocacy and structured engagement with service providers
- ✓Tracking stakeholder responses and community-defined changes
Participate in community-led change
Contact BarnMD to discuss local health priorities and how a community-led project could be planned. Activities are developed with residents and proceed after appropriate safety and operational reviews.