Reproductive health concerns – especially maternal health and family planning - have emerged as important agendas of global health programming over the past two decades. In the MDG paradigm as well as within the SDGs, maternal health remains an important target. Goal 5 explicitly includes a target of universal access to sexual and reproductive health services as a marker of gender equality. Similarly, access to contraception has received a boost through the Family Planning 2020 partnership. On the one hand there is great financial investment in improving “inputs” through capacity building, infrastructure strengthening, filling human resource gaps and so on. But on the other, quality of care, appropriateness of solutions, and respect and dignity in services remain significant challenges.
Using practical examples from India and elsewhere, this webinar will discuss how community-led, women-centred social accountability approaches can help to address some of these challenges. Moving away from a top-down, efficiency driven model of accountability, the webinar will provide insights into experiences with using multi-level, iterative, political mobilization of communities to improve maternal health, especially for the most marginalized.

Recording of CoPSAD 7 

FACILITATOR:
Dr. Abhijit Das, Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), India

SPEAKERS: 
Sana Contractor, CHSJ (India)
Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba, Africa Health Budget Network (Nigeria)
Sandhya Y K, SAHAYOG (India)
Fatima Adamu, Women For Health (Nigeria)