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W H O W E A R E
COPASAH is a community where practitioners who share an interest and passsion for the field of community monitoring for accountability in health interact regularly and engage in exchanging experiences and lessons; sharing resources, capacities and methods; in the production and dissemination of conceptual, methodological and practical outputs towards strengthening the field; and in networking and capacity building among member organizations.
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T H E M A T I C H U B S
COPASAH has forayed into working across themes with three thematic units in 2017. Through these Thematic hubs, COPASAH strives for field building for intensified focus on issues that concern citizen lives, through thematic consultations with various stake holders (primarily the community leaders), capacity building of practitioners and accountability advocates.
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COPASAH Communiqué: Strategic Directions and Future Pathways of COPASAH
The current issue of COPASAH Communiqué provides the glimpses of thE collective introspection, reflection and insights for the future directions. Such a reflection will be followed up. by marshalling the energies to consolidate the central theme of COPASAH, i.e. community c e n t r e d p a r t i c i p a t o r y accountability processes and bottom up knowledge making, through the Global Symposium on social accountability, that will be hosted by COPASAH in February 2019, in New Delhi (India). Read more
COPASAH Debriefing Review and Strategising Future Directions Meet
The COPASAH Debriefing Review and Strategising Future Directions Meet was held in New-Delhi India from September 5, 6&7. The meet witnessed participation of diverse experts from the field of accountability, health rights movement, accountability practitioners, academics and research. The participants spanned across different countries from Guatemala, Peru, Uganda, Zambia, UK, USA, Nepal, Bangladesh apart from India.
Read more Setting the Future Strategic Directions of COPASAH
COPASAH has traversed a journey of five years since its genesis in 2011.These five years has laid the foundation of realizing the vision and aspiration of COPASAH, where in this time the COPASAH Steering Committee members, accountability experts and advisors to COPASAH felt a need for undertaking a strategic consultation to identify priorities for COPASAH as well envision the future pathways for the global network. Read more
A Story of Success of Stakeholder Participation
The Community Uplift Program (CUP), is a NGO registered with the Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance 1984. This is a story of the impact of social mobilization through the journey of what began as a pilot project to look at social accountability. The pilot project was funded by DFID in the District of Peshawar where the “Community Score Card (CSC)”, a tool designed to look deeper into social accountability to improve healthcare. Today, CUP is implementing a scale-up of a CSC to help improve the primary healthcare services in Charsadda District.
Learn more... Social Accountability for Adolescents' Rights and Citizenship
This article is an account from a collaborative project 'Adolescents as Citizens and Change Agents for Social Accountability' implemented by three non -government organisations SAHAJ, SWATI and SARTHI in four backward districts of the state of Gujarat, namely, Vadodara, Surendranagar, Mahisagar and Panchmahal, in India. The stories of the adolescent girls and boys in the article give voice to their experiences of participating in the project and what it meant for them.
Learn more... Social Accountability: A Process Oriented Community Practice
THE accountability discourse is gaining momentum globally. However, the dominant discourse of accountability continues to be instrumentalist in its approach, which sees it as a technical report at the worst or merely as an intervention to improve health sector performance, at best. It is also tagged to efficiency, defined as value for money or getting things done at very low financial inputs. To this end, goals without fundamentally touching the core of accountability are set. The language that couches these goals is largely apolitical in its expression. The goals set in this school of thought range from producing a report or a score card to setting the millennium development (MDG) or sustainable development goals (SDG)...
Learn more... COPASAH Social Accountability Dialogue
COPASAH launched its Social Accountability Dialogue Series (CoPSAD) in March 2017, with a view to facilitate mutual learning among practitioners and accountability thinkers across the globe. The series intends to enrich the field of social accountability with insights and experiences from the field of accountability practice.
Learn more... COPASAH South Asia Exchange and Strengthening meet on social Accountability in Health in the South Asia Region December 4-6,2016, Kathmandu, Nepal
COPASAH - Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health - is a global community of practitioners who share a people –centric vision and human rights based approach to health, health care and human dignity.
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