COPASAH’s focus has been to enhance the capacities of field practitioners to support bottom up knowledge-generation and dissemination of field based innovations and insights and generate a platform for South-to-South solidarity and exchange. Resultantly COPASAH has fostered grass-roots practitioners’ capacity building through a distance –learning cum practice course under COPASAH III, which was anchored by COPASAH member SATHI under strategic direction of the COPASAH Secretariat and SC members. The modules developed by SATHI for the course can be accessed at: Read More
ICT Reflective Report : Communication gap between communities and health service providers as well as decision makers often results in non-availability of timely and adequate care. Empowering communities to use accessible and affordable technologies for effective communication on the health services, community needs and for planning has potential to effectively engage decision makers to respond to the community health emergencies and needs, bridge communication gaps and increase mutual trust and promote critical dialogue with health service providers. COPASAH experimented with the use of accessible Information Communication Technology (ICTs) to innovatively bridge the divides to facilitate quicker and efficient communication for meeting the community health needs and for prioritizing in health planning with capacity building of 30 selected community level leaders in six locations of India who were already involved in community monitoring of health services. The ICT reflective report attempts to capture the outcomes, learnings and challenges of this initiative carried out in India. For more details see: Read More
COPASAH Strategic Discussion Meeting : To vision and strategize future directions of COPASAH, COPASAH held a global Consultation in Vancouver in November, 2016. The Consultation saw insights of an array of experts on social accountability including academicians, researchers, and accountability practitioners wherein they focused upon visioning for COPASAH, prioritizing and identifying directions to make headway for the network in the future. To see more insights of the discussions see: Read More