Understanding the capacity of community-based groups to mobilise and engage in social action for health: Results from Avahan

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive statistics by population served.

	FSW	MSM	IDU	Total
Number of organisations in 2011	20	14	8	42
Percentage of all organisations	48	19	33	100
Organisational Capacity (2011)
Age (% founded before 2006)	21	28	0	20
Well-resourced, 2008 (%)	35	23	0	25
Resources in Rupees, 2008 (mean)	1,071,317	249,744	10,326	595,366
Members (mean)	1,906	815	819	1,335
Bank account self-managed (%)	35	57	25	40
Mechanisms for Social Action (2011)
Advocacy committee (%)	50	43	25	43
Crisis committee (%)	75	79	25	67
Strategic relations w. advocates/unions (%)	15	36	0	19
Community involvement in organisation (%)	85	71	50	67
Social Action (all years)
Demand rights on behalf of members (%)	81	64	41	69
Play lead role with gatekeepers (%)	51	54	17	48
Play lead role with opinion makers (%)	49	42	35	44

Table 2. Bivariate Statistics by Type of Social Action.

	Demand rights on behalf of members	Play lead role with gatekeepers	Play lead role with opinion makers
All organisations (%)	75	48	44
FSW-serving organisations (%)	85	45	55
MSM-serving organisations (%)	71	71	43
IDU-serving organisations (%)	50	0	14
Organisational Capacity
Founded before 2006 (%)	62	100	75
Well-resourced, 2008 (%)	32	44	46
Resources in Rupees, 2008 (mean)	798,217	1,138,906	1,295,789
Members (mean)	1,772	1,922	2,205
Bank account self-managed (%)	88	71	47
Mechanisms for Social Action
Advocacy committee (%)	78	39	39
Crisis committee (%)	86	61	46
Strategic relations w. advocates/unions (%)	100	87	75
Community involvement (%)	93	79	64

Note: All statistics from 2011 unless otherwise noted. Bolded entry indicates significant difference at the 0.05 level based on a t-test/chi-squared test comparing values of the row label for those organisations that did and did not engage in the social action in the column header.

Table 3. Adjusted odds ratios from mixed effects multivariate panel regressions predicting social action by community-based groups, clustered by time and state, India, 2009–2012.

	Model 1: Demand Rights	Model 2: Interact with Gatekeepers	Model 3: Interact with Opinion Makers
AOR (95% CI)
FSW (referent)
IDU	0.16** (0.04–0.56)	0.53 (0.06–4.39)	2.16 (0.67–6.98)
MSM	0.34* (0.13–0.86)	0.77 (0.23–2.57)	0.77 (0.31–1.90)
Org. founded before 2006	0.73 (0.22–2.44)	12.12** (1.85–79.37)	3.78* (1.22–11.61)
Bank account	3.51* (1.22–10.08)	5.15** (1.59–16.62)	0.97 (0.38–2.48)
Well-resourced	0.99 (0.32–3.09)	1.51 (0.35–6.46)	6.37** (2.23–18.24)
Has crisis committee	1.13 (0.43–2.95)	4.56* (1.21–17.28)	2.15 (0.86–5.37)
Strategic relations w. advocates/unions	4.97* (1.29–19.15)	6.62* (1.38–31.80)	2.05 (0.76–5.50)
N	133	133	138
# of organisations	47	47	48

* denotes significant at the 0.05 level, ** denotes significant at 0.01 level, *** denotes significant at the 0.001 level.