WHO WE ARE?
COPASAH is a community where practitioners who share an interest and passion 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. This Community of practitioners was established as result of a three day 'Practitioners Convening on Community Monitoring for Accountability in Health' organised by the Accountability and Monitoring in Health Initiative (AMHI) of the Open Society’s Public Health Program in July 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

OUR VISION

Communities are actively engaged in promoting accountability and transforming health systems towards the realization of social justice. 
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to nurture, strengthen and promote collective knowledge, skills and capacity of community-oriented organisations and health activists - primarily from Africa, Asia and Latin America - working in the field of accountability and social action in health, for promoting active citizenship to make health systems responsive, equitable and people-centred.
VALUES
COPASAH believes that in order to make our vision a reality, community monitoring for accountability in health must 
  • Enable communities facing inequities to assert their rights and to participate in concrete actions to bring about changes in health services and equitable distribution of resources
  • Give voice to peoples’ perspectives
  • Be an empowering process where actors related to the health system are encouraged to address power imbalances that affect people’s health
  • Be linked to an action or advocacy plan which aims to influence or change  health policies and programs.
STRATEGIES
  • Nurturing a community of practitioners will be done through the cross pollination of ideas, experiences and resources
  • Facilitate systematic exchange of knowledge and practice
  • Create opportunities for interaction between practitioners
  • Collection, collation and production of appropriate conceptual and operational
  • Inform and influence others
  • Building strategic alliances
  • Knowledge building
  • Collaborative action
STEERING COMMITTEE
The COPASAH Steering Committee (SC) includes representatives from each of the three geographical regions represented in the convening (Africa, India and Latin America) and a representative from AMHI. The SC is composed of the following members:
Abhijit Das
Global Convener -  COPASAH
(2015 - )

Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), India 


Renu Khanna
Member (South Asia)

Founder Member, SAHAJ Society for Health Alternatives, Baroda, India

 
Abhay Shukla
Member (South Asia)

Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives (SATHI), India 

 

Walter Flores
Member (Latin America)  and 
Global Convener -  COPASAH
(2012 - 2014 )

Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en los Sistemas de Salud-CEGSS (Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems) (CEGSS), Guatemala

Dhananjay Kakade
Senior Programme Officer
Open Society Foundations
(Ex-officio - Special Invitee)
Ariel Frisancho Arroyo 
Member ( Latin America)

CARE, Peru
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Mulumba, Moses
Member 

Founder and Executive Director
The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD)
SECRETARIAT TEAM
E Premdas Pinto 
Secretariat Coordinator  
  Communication Hub
Sambit Mohanty
Surekha Dhaleta
 Email: copasahnet@gmail.com


For further information and suggestions contact:

Centre for Health and Social Justice
Basement of Young Women's Hostel No. 2
Near Bank of India, Avenue 21, G Block, Saket, New Delhi- 110017
Telephone: +91-11-26535203, +91-11-26511425, Fax: +91-11-2653604         

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