ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Community Participatory Involvement (CPI) model and its development and theoretical basis. It explains the concepts and methodologies derived from community participation, ethnography, epidemiology and non-formal education. The chapter introduces structural and everyday violence that are central to the CPI model. The model develops and finds by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and was implemented by the Environmental Health Project (EHP). The five key elements explore the CPI model. Such as the role of effective community engagement, the elicitation and validation of local beliefs, the generation of base-line and follow-up epidemiological data, a scale up with local, regional, and national authorities, and sustained capacity building. The non-formal education component of the CPI model is a crucial link in the transformation of information into knowledge by way of experience. The CPI model reflects medical anthropology in an ecological perspective and the social ecology of health perspective commonly employed in public health.
