Description

Uganda Evaluation outcomes for CVA to 2012 (as part of multi-country evaluations).

Health Outcomes:

There have been reported increases in utilisation rates of health facilities. For example, 90% of children under 5 in the target area have accessed the targeted health clinics while 70% of the remaining population have accessed the targeted health clinics.
New policies adopted or changes to implementation/administration of existing policies during the period of the CVA intervention include:

1. A change from administering Quinine as a malaria drug to Coartem - the second line of malaria treatment - under the Government’s malaria policy.

2. A ban on the recruitment of health clinic staff has been lifted by the government, leading to an increase in staff recruitment of 80%.

3. Safe male circumcision is being carried out at the health facilities as per stated policy as a way to reduce HIV/AIDS transmission.

4. Salaries have increased for medical officers at Level 4 Health Centres.

The level of community involvement and collective action by Village Health Teams, AIDS community volunteers, sanitation committees, health unit management committees, tuberculosis groups and local council leaders are contributing to day-to-day actions to assist health centre functioning and outcomes such as:

1. Referral of patients
2. Follow up on immunisations
3. Contact/tracing of patients
4. Access to drugs, including treatment for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea
5. Collecting and contributing materials for building health facilities
6. Contribution to radio talk shows

Additional 2012 data collection in Uganda on education:

In schools where CVA was undertaken:

1. 51 percent of the schools received additional teachers; in 25 percent of these cases, there was an increase of two or more staff and in eight per cent of cases there were four new teachers recruited;

2. 74 per cent of the schools had increased enrolment of which 25 % experienced enrolment levels of between 32 and 400 per cent in just two years;

3. In 60 per cent of the schools, academic performance improved, with increased numbers of students passing exams and recording higher test scores; in 14 per cent of cases, Grade 3 and Grade 2 (one grade below a distinction) results were achieved for the first time in the school’s history

4.In eight per cent of cases, children achieved distinctions

5. In 11 per cent of these schools, there was a 100 per cent pass rate for the primary school leaving exam.

The head of one District stated that: Communities were keeping government staff “on their toes”. “If services are not provided we need to explain why. We have taken the community for granted for a long time.’’

In Kizalizi Primary School, after 7 years of waiting, 4 new teachers were recruited just 4 months after a CVA gathering.