Measures to assess the strength of the community mobilisation intervention at the cluster level*
| Activities | Measures of community participation† |
| High-risk group intervention | |
| Programme penetration | Number of HRIs registered under project/number of HRIs registered as CBO members |
| Programme participation | Proportion of unpaid HRIs in cluster who participate in programme activities‡ |
| Proportion of paid HRIs in cluster who participate in programme activities | |
| Categorisation of the cluster as having low, medium or high participation among unpaid and paid HRIs | |
| Micro-planning: peer-led outreach | Ratios of unpaid and paid HRIs to all participating |
| Whether any HRI takes the lead role in organising the micro-planning activity | |
| Whether any HRI takes the lead role in analysing the micro-planning data | |
| Structural intervention | |
| Facilitating access to entitlements | Total number of entitlements the programme focuses on in the cluster |
| Unmet need for entitlements within the cluster | |
| Functional committees§ | Proportion of paid HRI to total number of committee members from cluster who participate on committees |
| Proportion of unpaid HRI to total number of committee members from cluster who participate on committees | |
| Crisis response | Proportion of paid HRIs who serve as main person responding to crises to total number of those responding |
| Proportion of unpaid HRIs who serve as main person responding to crises to total number of those responding | |
| Organised collective action | Total number of collective events organised by cluster members |
| Ratio of paid and unpaid HRIs who participate in collective action events to total number of HRIs registered in cluster | |
| Organisational development | |
| Leadership and ownership by CBOs | Existence of cluster representative on leadership team or governing body |
| Categorisation of cluster as having low, medium, high or highest level of participation by paid and unpaid HRIs in the nomination process | |
| Proportion of paid HRIs on the leadership team | |
| Proportion of unpaid HRIs on the leadership team | |
| Proportion of unpaid to paid HRIs on the leadership team | |
↵* ‘Cluster’ is a geographic unit at the subdistrict level that represents approximately 250 female sex workers served by the programme.
↵† All measures obtained from the cluster-level community participation sheet (CLCPS).
↵‡ Programme activities include: outreach, advocacy, crisis response and clinic.
↵§ Committees include: outreach, drop-in center (DIC) management, STI clinic management, crisis response, advocacy and condom.
CBO, community-based organisation; HRI, high-risk individual; STI, sexually transmitted infections.