Impact on community leaders, opinion-makers, service providers in interaction with their communities, attributed to SC by respondents in the National Qualitative Impact Assessment:

1. SC is reported to ease the difficulty of discussing sensitive issues (such as HIV/AIDS, youth sexuality and domestic violence); respondents report that SC provides an opening / opportunity on which to build discussion; SC is perceived as, and used as an extension of community work; it shapes, supplements and reinforces various forms of messages to, and interaction with the community. Stimulation of various forms of community dialogue and debate and opening-up of taboo subjects have directly / overtly been attributed to SC.
2. Examples of SC impact on policy and practice within community structures and services have been documented: e.g. a change in policy around condom distribution in a rural community was overtly attributed to SC.