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ContextThe Kashtakari Sanghatana is working in the tribal district of Thane in Maharashtra, India. It has been working in the area of community monitoring of health services for the past 15 years. In 1999-2000 it implemented a WHO project entitled Empowerment of Rural Poor for Better Health in which it first experimented with community Monitoring tools, organising village level meetings and setting up village level health monitoring committees. From 2007, it is part of the NRHM Community based Monitoring process and implements the same in two blocks (Dahanu and Mokhada) of Thane district. It trains village level committee members to monitor village level health services. It also monitors higher level institutions eg Rural Hospitals etc. It organises people's public Hearings frequently to focus on the inadequacies of the health services. It is continuously involved in advocacy work with the district health administration.
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Maharashtra, India Contact Person:
Brian Lobo |