The Make Way’s intersectional community score card Process in SRH
Summary
Intersectionality helps to understand how different sets of identities impact access to rights and opportunities, these can be race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, ability, age, and mental health, among others.
The Make Way Programme applies intersectionality as a tool in assessing how various aspects of social prejudice, hinder access to justice and equity while seeking Health services in our societies.
Furthermore, the Intersectional Community Score Card (ICSC) is a tool used by the Make Way Programme to assess the quality, affordability, availability, and accessibility of SRH services among youths with compounded vulnerabilities through the AAAQ framework approach.
Through the auspices of the Make Way Programme, our local partner organization, St. Francis Oriang Development Programme, held an essential session with the MOH and the health service providers at Kombewa District Hospital, Seme Kisumu County, for the Intersectional Community Score Card, scoring process.
What is intersectionality?
“Intersectionality is a lens through which one can see where power comes and collides, where it locks and intersects. It is the acknowledgment that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.” Kimberle Crenshaw.
Intersectionality helps to understand how different sets of identities impact access to rights and opportunities, these can be race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, ability, age, and mental health, among others.
The Make Way Programme applies intersectionality as a tool in assessing how various aspects of social prejudice, hinder access to justice and equity while seeking Health services in our societies.
Furthermore, the Intersectional Community Score Card (ICSC) is a tool used by the Make Way Programme to assess the quality, affordability, availability, and accessibility of SRH services among youths with compounded vulnerabilities through the AAAQ framework approach.
The process is solely conducted by the youths, who do the scoring to assess some of the challenges they encounter while seeking SRH services from a particular public health center they have sought for those services and even the attitude of the health service providers towards them while seeking the same.
This is through the guidance of a policy document, which serves as a reference point or an indicator in addition to the AAAQ document.
The youths will note down various issues that they would need to address as this gives direct avenues for them to lobby, advocate, and even have a voice in the policy-making entities as they get access to more information on their SRHRs.
After the scoring is done, through the MOH, they get a chance to meet with the service providers in that particular facility, who will then do their scoring depending on the issues that have been raised by the youths.
This is also a way of addressing and seeking interventions to the challenges faced by the youth while seeking SRH Services by holding the service providers accountable besides lobbying and advocating for their rights and this has been so impactful in realizing quality and accessible SRH services amongst the youths as well as access to information on their SRHRs
