Measuring What Matters With Community-Led Monitoring

<p>In this episode, we discuss the practice of community-led monitoring, and how this practice can help inform and influence collaborative change efforts.</p><p>To learn more about community-led monitoring, we talk with the <strong>International Treatment Preparedness Coalition </strong>(<strong>ITPC</strong>), a global network that works to achieve universal access to HIV treatment and other life-saving medicines. One of ITPC’s core strategies is to "watch what matters," which includes supporting data gathering and analysis that’s centered on and led by community members, and reflects the issues and questions that are most important to people living with and affected by HIV.</p><p>To share about what they’ve learned from their community-led monitoring work, we hear from ITPC’s Executive Director <strong>Solange Baptiste</strong> and Citizen Science Lead <strong>Krista Lauer</strong>. They share how data practices like community-led monitoring can unearth community access barriers and pain points within a system, and how that information can be gathered to inform advocacy efforts and policy change.<br /><br /><strong>References and Footnotes</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://itpcglobal.org/">ITPC – International Treatment Preparedness Coalition</a></li><li><a href="https://clm.itpcglobal.org/">CLMhub.org</a></li><li>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9cmdIBrlk">What is Community-Led Monitoring (CLM)?</a></li></ul><p><strong>More on Collective Impact</strong></p><ul><li>Infographic: <a href="https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/what-is-collective-impact/" target="_blank">What is Collective Impact?</a></li><li>Resource List: <a href="https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/getting-started/" target="_blank">Getting Started in Collective Impact</a></li></ul><p>The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found <a href="https://filmmusic.io/song/5434-running/">here</a> and is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC: By 4.0.</a></p><p>The