Second Community Stakeholders’ Meeting:
Forming a Community Care Coalition (CCC)The second stakeholders’ meeting
By the end of the first community stakeholders’ meeting, the participants had described the current
situation of OVC in the community and identified both current responses and gaps in responding to
OVC needs. Participants then returned home (or returned to their respective organisations) and had
time to reflect and decide if they wanted to continue to participate in strengthening a community
response to the identified OVC needs. Those participants appearing at this second meeting, then,
are assumed to be those who are interested in moving forward.
Activity 1: Choosing a CCC model
Remind the participants of the topics discussed in the first meeting. Review the needs of OVC,
the current response, and the identified gaps in meeting these needs. Ask the participants if they
have thought of how they would like to organise themselves to address the identified gaps. If the
participants already have their own ideas, ask them to explain these. In most cases you should accept
whatever community structure the participants decide to form. As it is likely that they will speak of some
type of collaborative effort where many organisations and individuals come together for the purpose
of assisting vulnerable children, their own structure will probably not be too different from the CCC
model(s) that you, as a mobiliser, have been introduced to. You should allow for debate among the
members until they reach agreement on the structure that they want.
If the members are quite clear about the type of structure they wish to form, you can ask them to
draw a visual representation of how they see the different stakeholders coming together. If this
drawing more or less matches one of the two models you have in Mobiliser Reference 3, you may
help them to clarify the details of their model. If the group is uncertain about the type of structure
they wish to form, you may present the two models in Mobiliser Reference 3as possibilities.
Explain the difference between the two models, as outlined on the next page.
You should explain to the participants that the choice of models depends on the extent to which they
feel that the response to OVC needs in their community is weak, and a new structure is needed
to carry out activities to fill this gap, or, conversely, the extent to which they feel existing stakeholders
are already responding adequately to the OVC crisis, with only small gaps, and that what is needed is
simply more co-ordination.
Show the two visual representations of the models to the participants, emphasising the difference
between the two, and allow time for the participants to discuss and decide which model is most
appropriate to their situation. They may wish to refer to the Current Response Matrixthat they filled
out in the previous meeting to review the current situation and the identified gaps in response.
Once the participants have decided on the model they wish to use, they may draw the appropriate
community care coalition model on a large sheet of flipchart paper.
STEP 3
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