Component | Original design | Change made | Reason for the change |
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VHT component | Supervision only by health workers | Supervision by super VHTs as well | Promote sustainability of the component since health workers are few and busy |
Dialogue meetings | Dialogue tools long and lengthy | Dialogue tools revised to make them shorter more focused | Feedback from VHT’s that tools were complicated |
 | Meetings conducted at village level, with a large group of participants making dialogue impossible | Meetings conducted in saving groups | To promote sustainability of the meetings after the project by using an existing group that convenes regularly and to promote dialogue |
Savings and transport | Minimal involvement of CDOs | Increased involvement of CDOs to provide regular support to the saving groups through training and supervision | Feedback during review meetings showed that households were not saving and linkages with transporters were not being formed |
 | No facilitation planned for CDOs since the support is part of their regular work | Facilitation for CDOs to allow them to visit the groups and to provide the necessary support | Feedback from CDOs that they were not doing the expected work because they lacked facilitation |
 | No linkage with other income generating groups | CDOs were encouraged to work with other existing income generating groups in the district to leverage existing resources | Feedback about the groups accumulating a lot of savings which was now redundant and likely to be stolen |
Fears about money being stolen | |||
Low incomes given as a reason for not saving |