Three month work plan

On Friday I will have been at my site (in the Sidama Zone and SNNPR region of Ethiopia) for two months. Here is my work plan for the first three months at site as a Community Health Volunteer in Ethiopia:

Objective 1.1: Improved Household Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
1. Counterpart will introduce PCV and her purpose to community and selected households.
2. PCV will share, using the local language, the first the month work plan with the households and health center staff.
3. Shadow Health Extension Workers and other health center staff.
4. Design and conduct at least 2 health education activities on WASH/nutrition at the health center.
5. Visit health center and the accessible health posts.
6. Facilitate needs assessment and ethnography of WASH infrastructure and practices at the community level and with 8 households using the Peace Corps Ethiopia community and household WASH and nutrition needs assessment tool.
7. Teach parents and caregivers to build, maintain, use and guide children to use hand-washing stations in 8 households and my own home using locally available resources and the hand-washing station toolkit.

Objective 1.2: Improved Household Nutrition
1. Prepare healthy, age-appropriate meal for child (enriched porridge) at selected household.
2. Facilitate needs assessment and ethnography of nutrition-related behaviors at the community level and with 8 households using the Peace Corps Ethiopia community and household WASH and nutrition needs assessment tool.

Objective 2.1: Improved School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
1. With a least one teacher and at least five students, conduct a WASH activity at the school. Hand-washing demonstration with posters or trash clean up.
2. Conduct school WASH needs assessment (facilities, environment, sanitation club activities, health center engagement with school, classroom WASH teaching) using Peace Corps Ethiopia school WASH needs assessment tool.


Objective 2.2 is: Improved Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health. They don't want us to do any work on this goal until we have been at site for at least 6 months.