PD/Hearth approach can bring the following criteria such as Quick, Affordable, Participatory, Sustainable, Indigenous and cultural acceptance. In terms of Quick, the approach can apply methods for an immediate problem to solve quickly.
Under a situation that rehabilitation is necessary for children, supervised feeding would be implemented as a Hearth session. Caregivers then try the same practices at home-based and inform and share their experiences at the next Hearth sessions. The caregivers and volunteers can be given follow-up support during the interventions. Affordable and community members do not need to be dependent on or can decrease outside resources to practice the new behaviours as much as possible because this method is based on …show more content…
Also, the community has a key role during the PD/Hearth process because they need to discover effective specific practices and strategies and to improve the situation in the community to support the caregivers even after the Hearth sessions are completed. Once many of the mothers were caring out something, strong social pressure inducing participatory can generate for other mothers (John walley et al. 2010). Actually, the hearth approach had changed the culture and custom of the village in Vietnam (Mackintosh et al. 2002). Moreover, if it is expected to encourage the fathers and another family members as well as mothers to participate through the program, it can be useful to improve gender inequality in terms of this problem because men is usually uncooperative for child rearing in Ghana (Bisits Bullen, 2011). As an assessment method for participation in a community-based programme, there are five indicators such as Needs assessment, Leadership, Organization, Resource Mobilization, Management (Battiema et al. 2013). Although it is assumption-based from the past evidences, this intervention can mark higher score in each indicator from the feature of this
Under a situation that rehabilitation is necessary for children, supervised feeding would be implemented as a Hearth session. Caregivers then try the same practices at home-based and inform and share their experiences at the next Hearth sessions. The caregivers and volunteers can be given follow-up support during the interventions. Affordable and community members do not need to be dependent on or can decrease outside resources to practice the new behaviours as much as possible because this method is based on …show more content…
Also, the community has a key role during the PD/Hearth process because they need to discover effective specific practices and strategies and to improve the situation in the community to support the caregivers even after the Hearth sessions are completed. Once many of the mothers were caring out something, strong social pressure inducing participatory can generate for other mothers (John walley et al. 2010). Actually, the hearth approach had changed the culture and custom of the village in Vietnam (Mackintosh et al. 2002). Moreover, if it is expected to encourage the fathers and another family members as well as mothers to participate through the program, it can be useful to improve gender inequality in terms of this problem because men is usually uncooperative for child rearing in Ghana (Bisits Bullen, 2011). As an assessment method for participation in a community-based programme, there are five indicators such as Needs assessment, Leadership, Organization, Resource Mobilization, Management (Battiema et al. 2013). Although it is assumption-based from the past evidences, this intervention can mark higher score in each indicator from the feature of this