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Table 7 Power and interest Grid

From: Participative epidemiology and prevention pathway of health risks associated with artisanal mines in Luhihi area, DR Congo

Ttype of actors

Specifications

Actors with Low power/low interest: these actors are currently of minor importance for resource mobilization

Health zones, natives farming populations, non-governmental organizations. (i) State health zones do not have financing plans that include mine actors, (ii) faming natives consider the mine as a socio-financial threat, (iii) mine actors consider that NGOs act on an ad hoc basis rather than on a long-term basis.

Actors with “Low power/high interest”: although these actors have little power, they can be important stakeholders in resource mobilization.

Minors, Sex professionals and Economic actors are under-resourced but have a high interest in health care. They are constantly financing themselves their health care. They are also willing to participate in cost-sharing initiatives for the prevention of health risks by releasing the amounts agreed upon or another reasonable amount.

Actors with “High power/low interest”: this group is the most challenging to address. Strategies are needed to be settled in order to engage them.

Mining Cooperatives, State agencies and Mine Police. (i) Firstly, mining cooperatives have the power to initiate but do not promote the health actions of their members. (ii) Secondly, State agencies do not encourage cooperatives, PDGs to provide their members with health protection tools, the establishment of health care structures as well as the creation of health mutuality. (iii) The mine police are capable of enforcing the application of preventive measures of health risks but do not do so.

Actors with “High power/high interest”: these are the actors with whom one might clearly engage in resource mobilization

“PDG” and “supporters” have the potential to assist miners in paying for their health care. They also have an interest in enhancing miners’ health as they are exploiting for the account of the “PGDs and Supporters”.