CAPACITY BUILDING

In order to effectively use the community monitoring approach for improved health outcomes, organizations and practitioners need capacity strengthening. COPASAH initiatives helped to lay a good foundation for real practical social accountability and community monitoring. These have helped in bridging the knowledge and capacity gaps identified by members, besides generating interest in the learning strategies being promoted by COPASAH. The key activities include the following:

Workshops
COPASAH member organizations vary in their experience and skills about implementing community monitoring for accountability. Formal training courses and workshops were organised with a view to generate collaboration between members and aimed at facilitation and capacity-building support to the organisations. These include two in South Asia region, one in East and Southern African region and two in Latin America.

Resource Pack on Community Monitoring
A virtual learning platform, which is a collation of readings, guidelines, exercises, and examples which are intended to support a grassroots development or a human rights practitioner to adopt new methodologies or improve existing practices. It brings together and includes a vast array of conceptual and practical aspects of community monitoring. The learning resource has the potential to contribute to the overall knowledge building and sharing process and add to the process of capacity building of practitioners of community monitoring. The content generation and pooling of various experience based content under a framework for accountability practice for health rights from the practitioners’ perspective is a first time initiative globally. (www.copasah.org)


CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVES BY COPASAH:

• COPASAH Accountability Dialogue
• COPASAH South Asia exchange and strengthening meet
• South Asia workshop on advance video editing 
• COPASAH Latin America Update
• Certificate Course on Health System Accountability
• Synthesis report of practice of capacity building in three practice nodes of COPASAH
• Research Roundtable on Social Movements and Accountability Research Roundtable on Social Movements and Accountability Processes: “Comparative Research on Citizen Participation and Social Accountability Process”
• COPASAH International Meeting, New Delhi
• Using Information Communication Technologies for Social Accountability in Health – Sharing Global Experience 
• COPASAH South Asia ICT Workshop ​
• South Asia Facilitated Learning Exchange 
• Learning Sharing and Documentation workshop on Employing ICTs for Social Accountability in Health
• Facilitated Learning Visit in East and Southern Africa, Kampala Uganda
• ​COPASAH Eastern and Southern Africa Region Facilitated Learning Exchange Visit to Nairobi, Kenya
• Facilitated Learning Exchange for ROMA Community Accountability Practitioners (Macedonia)
• Certificate Course on Health System Accountability
• COPASAH South Asia Learning Exchange Visit
• Workshop report on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa right to information act 2013
• COPASAH accountability lab
• State level workshop on social accountability and community action on health
• Facilitated learning exchange visit- east and Southern Africa region
• Facilitated learning exchange visit-2- South Asia region
• South Asia region facilitated learning exchange visit – 1
• Media and monitoring seminar, Bbarcelona
• Training workshop on participatory methods for a people centred health system
• South Asia region workshop on social accountability and community monitoring in health
• South Asian practitioners workshop in India on "community monitoring for accountability in health"
• Community monitoring for accountability and equity in healthcare services
• COPASAH South Asia Facilitated Learning Exchange Visit-3
• COPASAH at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (GSHSR)