Implementing community conversations for formative co-design research at scale: a new method
To ensure meaningful involvement of the community in shaping the intervention design, RAB developed an adaptation of the Mandela Foundation CC approach, to engage with community members at scale. Though typically applied as an intervention itself, our reformulation was designed to deepen engagement with the communities of men, women and health practitioners who will engage with the proposed interventions. Conversations were structured in a similar manner to the PLA group component of the intervention, providing an additional layer of depth for understanding the acceptability of the approach in this context. Our adaptation included four of the five CC stages: Relationship building, Concern identification, Concern Exploration and Reflection and Review. Our decision to exclude the 