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Individual and Family Monitoring

Individuals and families monitor their personal health progress, noting how often they are sick and how much they spend on health and illness, and by using individual and family level tools such as growth monitoring charts, vaccination cards, family wall charts, medical records, and others. Many programs work with community members to develop appropriate materials to enable individuals to monitor their health status.

For example, the Warmi Project team worked with women’s groups to develop a women’s health card that served both as a tool to record information related to a woman’s reproductive health and to teach women about danger signs during pregnancy, delivery, and after delivery. Another example comes from the Philippines Appreciative Community Mobilization project where the team developed women’s and couple’s Action Cards that were used to help individuals and couples articulate their reproductive health intentions for the coming year and monitor their progress toward their goals.

Often materials such as child growth and vaccination cards are already available nationally, but may need to be adapted to suit local conditions. It is important to discuss with community members and service providers who maintain and have access to these records how they are being used to determine whether they actually meet individual and family needs for information.

Community and Group Monitoring
Program Team Monitoring
Donor and Stakeholder Monitoring