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W H O W E A R E
Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) is a bottom-up learning global network of community practitioners primarily from the global south, working to strengthen the linkages between communities and health systems to provide quality and accountable health care.
Health, wellbeing and dignity for all and community's claim for human right to health is at the core of COPASAH's positioning of social accountability. The community of practitioners of COPASAH encompasses various actors ranging from people-oriented community leaders, organic intellectuals and institutions committed to an equitable vision of society.
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Health, wellbeing and dignity for all and community's claim for human right to health is at the core of COPASAH's positioning of social accountability. The community of practitioners of COPASAH encompasses various actors ranging from people-oriented community leaders, organic intellectuals and institutions committed to an equitable vision of society.
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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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Enforcing Public Accountability of Private Healthcare Sector and Safeguarding Patient’s Rights
In many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) especially in South Asia and Africa, the private for-profit healthcare sector is playing pivotal role in providing healthcare. This has created many opportunities for better healthcare as well as posed significant challenges regarding quality, affordability of care, ethical practices and patient’s rights. 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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