Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation in Zimbabwe

A community-based survey covering demographic data, household health, hygiene behavior and practice.

Africa AHEAD makes use of the Community Health Club approach which places health promotion at the focal point for sustaining community well-being and development. A Community Health Club consists of between 50 - 150 members who work together to upgrade their knowledge on health-related issues and hygiene practices with a view to improving their own family's health.

Through activities, such as the development of education and training material, technical advice, training workshops and project design, Africa AHEAD seeks to promote best practices using empirical evidence gathered from third-world situations. To support and guide its own activities, the organisation undertakes fieldwork and also performs research and evaluation on health promotion programmes.

Mobenzi Researcher Implementation

"Using the mobile phone to conduct the survey was easier and faster than using paper-based surveys."

Using Mobenzi Researcher, a household survey of approximately 65 questions was conducted with all registered health club members (approximately a thousand households). The survey captured household inventories, demographic data and household health and hygiene behaviour. The indicators were gathered by means of observation and direct questions posed by community-based facilitators.