Linking Reproductive Health to Social Power: Community Health Workers in Belize and Pakistan

concepts such as gender and power in a concrete way. They also enjoyed the interactive format and the feeling of community generated during the workshop, both of which were a departure from their usual training experiences. One physician, who was also a district manager, responded to the training with the following comment: “After participating in the role-plays where I had to take my sick child to a provider, for the first time I felt how humiliated, helpless, and frustrated you can feel if the provider is hostile and arrogant toward you. It was indeed a very bitter experience. The importance of how you behave with your client dawned on me for the first time. I can now empathize with the poor clients. I [will] make it part of my supervisory visits to see to it that clients are dealt with in a humane manner by the providers as envisaged in