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work plan preparation, there is a need for creation of activities that will require
collaboration between different stakeholders including government institutions.
Furthermore, this workshop intended to bring to bring together multi-stakeholder,
including government, and to initiate collaboration efforts. Labelling of pesticides
and handling empty containers may be taken as a case study in its own right. In
the action plan there is a need to put more emphasis on media collaboration
even though there is a planned media-training workshop. Community monitoring
approach is trying to avoid laymen statement by using developed tools by PAN
Africa, PAN AP and PAN UK
3.4.4 Community Pesticide Monitoring for Community Empowerment
Mr. Bashiru Abdul, Pesticides and Poverty project coordinator
The presentation gave a definition of community monitoring as a systematic
method of participatory action documentation on the impact of pesticides on
health and the environment at the community level by the community.
Community monitoring is done when there have been complaints of health
problems in the community, huge amounts of pesticides are used and there is a
high frequency of spray operations, serious pesticide poisoning incidents,
pesticides used that have been banned in other countries e.g. DDT use,
pesticides used that are suspected to cause chronic effects and presence of
stockpiles and information gap.
The objectives of community monitoring are to empower communities to tackle
the hazards of pesticides, ensuring safe food and foods free from pesticides,
building a consensus to eliminate the health and environmental hazards of
pesticides. Ethics of community pesticide action monitoring are Prior informed
consent of communities, participatory, benefit to community, responsible and
accountable to communities, ownership of monitoring information is with the
communities and capacity to meet consequences.
Monitoring should be people-centred or community-centred. He presented a
Community Pesticides Action Management (CPAM) monitoring tools (developed
by PAN AP) which include Community Pesticide Action Kits (CPAK), Surveybased
interviews using a standard questionnaire, documentation of observations,
survey of socio-economic situation and gender positioning, promote selfsurveillance
amongst the community, testing of pesticide poisoning and medical
investigation, pesticide poisoning documentation and constant involvement,
feedback and consultation with the community. Pesticide Quick Response and
Surveillance Team (PQRST) involve trained anti-pesticide advocates who are
able to respond to reports of adverse events related to pesticides within a
reasonable period of time. The purpose of PQRST is to - provide a support
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