
Regional Asia Pacific CLM/CBM webinar – Optimizing the key populations for community led monitoring tools for improved HIV Access and Services
According to PEPFAR “Community-led monitoring (CLM) is a technique initiated and implemented by local community-based organizations and other civil society groups, networks of key populations (KP), people living with HIV (PLHIV), and other affected groups or other community entities that gathers quantitative and qualitative data about HIV services. The focus is on getting input from recipients of HIV services, especially key populations and underserved groups, in a routine and systematic manner that will translate into action and change. CLM is central to PEPFAR’s client-centered approach because it helps puts communities, their needs, and their voices at the center of the HIV response.”[1]
For the Global Fund “Community-based monitoring (CBM) refers to service users assessing the effectiveness, quality, accessibility and impact of health programs and services which they receive. CBM includes any type of monitoring led by communities, however a key principal of CBM is that communities decide what to monitor and act upon the data collected. Unlike monitoring led or undertaken by health systems, advocacy based on the evidence and observations gathered is an essential outcome of community-based monitoring initiatives.”[2]
Objectives
- Provide a better understanding on how Community-Led Monitoring is being implemented under EpiC and its outcomes;
- Challenges and opportunities from the key population perspective when implementing CLM/CBM (Community-Based Monitoring) at the country level
- Determine the global and regional actors who are supporting the implementation of CLM/CBM at the country level and propose coordination arrangements
- Identify action points in the region and country to ensure that there is meaningful participation by the community in advocacy CLM/CBM sustainability and service delivery improvements
- Recommendations and way forward to coordinate key populations-led CLM/CBM intervention programme at the regional and country levels


Speakers Presentation
Link to Resources
APCOM A Guide to Implementing Community Based Monitoring
Global Fund Community-based monitoring: An Overview
Global Fund Four Models of community-based monitoring: a review
Global Fund Towards a Common Understanding of Community-based Monitoring and Advocacy
ITPC Community-led Monitoring Brief
PEPFAR Community-led Monitoring Fact Sheet
PEPFAR Solutions Tools Page, Community-led Monitoring Tools
The EpiC project’s Community-led Monitoring (CLM) resourcesUNAIDS Establishing community led monitoring of HIV services
LinLink to other resources APCOM has done on CBM/CLM
[1] https://www.state.gov/community-led-monitoring/
[2] https://www.theglobalfund.org/media/9622/core_css_overview_en.pdf