Women's Empowerment in Fiji

Women Empowerment  

The main goal of the project is to support the functions of District Nurse La that are essential for both productivity and improving health and wellness.  Provides support to increase the self-efficacy of 14 community health workers (CHWs) to be productive health providers within their communities that span between Dawasamu District and Bureiwai District. It is well-established that the CHWs are crucial to both optimizing quality of care and addressing increased patient volume.  GVI aides in human resources management and supporting CHW service delivery and encourage District Nurse role in continuous learning opportunities for her staff. 

 One area we had been focusing on is training the 15 Community Health Workers from Dawasamu and Bureiwai Districts on utilising data collated through their patient registers and transferring it into pivot tables, to produce a data analysis report, to assist with monitoring and analysing ailments and medication. The report produced allows the District Nurse to examine patient data more easily to identify the root causes of common infection cases for strategic disease intervention. The report helps community health workers to prioritise their preventative health measures by identifying their top infections within their village and conducting targeted health interventions.  We are looking forward to continuing training once the COVID restrictions are lifted and updating the data analysis report with information collated over the last nine months and using the data to highlight what training sessions are needed to benefit the communities.