Dear COPASAH Members, Practitioners and Associates
In September 2019, at a side event to the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, twelve multilateral health, development and humanitarian agencies launched the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All “to better support countries over the next ten years to accelerate progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals through strengthened collaboration and coordination”. One year into the GAP, in September 2020, its first progress report was published and launched in an online event hosted by the WHO, where representatives from signatory agencies and governments expressed their support to the GAP commitments.
The “Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative, the Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP (CSAG) and the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) invite civil society colleagues and others interested to a series of three webinars to discuss and reflect on the development and the first year of the implementation of the “Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All” (GAP).
In our webinar series we will focus on different elements of the GAP, together with representatives from the GAP Secretariat, civil society, and some of the signatory agencies. In times of COVID-19, when the challenges of international health cooperation are multiplied by the pandemic, can the GAP make a difference? The co-organizers want to inspire civil society to advocate for more space for civil society engagement with the GAP and to closely follow the Action Plan’s role in strengthening coordination among signatory agencies at global and country level and what this entails for national health systems and for communities and civil society.
Webinar 1: Monday 19 October 2020, 14.00-15.30 CEST
The GAP and civil society – civil society and the GAP
This webinar will focus on the history, the set-up and the objectives of the Global Action Plan as seen by the GAP agencies and civil society. We will discuss the first progress report, with a particular focus on the initial plan and current reality of how to involve, address and support civil society and communities. The panel will include Hendrik Schmitz (GAP Secretariat) and civil society organizations working at a global and national level.
Webinar 2: Monday 26th October 2020, 14.00-15.00 CEST
The GAP and Sustainable Financing for Health: Business as usual?
This webinar will take a country-focus approach, looking critically at sustainable financing, as framed in the GAP and reflecting on reports and experiences from countries where in which the sustainable financing “accelerator” (thematic focus) of the GAP was piloted. As the agencies in the lead of these pilots are usual suspects (Global Fund, GAVI, World Bank / GFF), are the stories presented also mainly business as usual, just presented in a new way, or does the GAP make any difference, for the countries and for civil society? The panel will include Manjiri Bhawalkar (Global Fund), and civil society organizations (Wemos and COPASAH).
Webinar 3: Monday 2 November 2020, 14.00-15.00 CET
The GAP and Primary Health Care: The usual confusion?
This webinar will take a country-focus approach, looking critically at how Primary Health Care (PHC) is framed in the GAP in a technical way (as primary level care, basic packages of services) and how the political dimensions of Primary Health Care, in the sense of the Alma-Ata Declaration, are left out (addressing determinants of health and issues of global justice, community and people as owners of the health system). The webinar will reflect on reports and experiences from countries where in which the PHC “accelerator” (thematic focus) of the GAP was piloted. The panel will include representatives from signatory agencies and civil society organizations (COPASAH, MMI and PHM).
Reference document
Watch the GAP. A critical civil society perspective on the development, potential impact and implementation of the ‘Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well- being for All’ (July 2020, PDF)
Zoom registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg
You only need to register once; please select which webinar(s) you would like to attend
Co-organizers
“Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative (website)
Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP, CSAG (website)
Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health, COPASAH (website)
Contacts
In September 2019, at a side event to the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, twelve multilateral health, development and humanitarian agencies launched the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All “to better support countries over the next ten years to accelerate progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals through strengthened collaboration and coordination”. One year into the GAP, in September 2020, its first progress report was published and launched in an online event hosted by the WHO, where representatives from signatory agencies and governments expressed their support to the GAP commitments.
The “Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative, the Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP (CSAG) and the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) invite civil society colleagues and others interested to a series of three webinars to discuss and reflect on the development and the first year of the implementation of the “Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All” (GAP).
In our webinar series we will focus on different elements of the GAP, together with representatives from the GAP Secretariat, civil society, and some of the signatory agencies. In times of COVID-19, when the challenges of international health cooperation are multiplied by the pandemic, can the GAP make a difference? The co-organizers want to inspire civil society to advocate for more space for civil society engagement with the GAP and to closely follow the Action Plan’s role in strengthening coordination among signatory agencies at global and country level and what this entails for national health systems and for communities and civil society.
Webinar 1: Monday 19 October 2020, 14.00-15.30 CEST
The GAP and civil society – civil society and the GAP
This webinar will focus on the history, the set-up and the objectives of the Global Action Plan as seen by the GAP agencies and civil society. We will discuss the first progress report, with a particular focus on the initial plan and current reality of how to involve, address and support civil society and communities. The panel will include Hendrik Schmitz (GAP Secretariat) and civil society organizations working at a global and national level.
Webinar 2: Monday 26th October 2020, 14.00-15.00 CEST
The GAP and Sustainable Financing for Health: Business as usual?
This webinar will take a country-focus approach, looking critically at sustainable financing, as framed in the GAP and reflecting on reports and experiences from countries where in which the sustainable financing “accelerator” (thematic focus) of the GAP was piloted. As the agencies in the lead of these pilots are usual suspects (Global Fund, GAVI, World Bank / GFF), are the stories presented also mainly business as usual, just presented in a new way, or does the GAP make any difference, for the countries and for civil society? The panel will include Manjiri Bhawalkar (Global Fund), and civil society organizations (Wemos and COPASAH).
Webinar 3: Monday 2 November 2020, 14.00-15.00 CET
The GAP and Primary Health Care: The usual confusion?
This webinar will take a country-focus approach, looking critically at how Primary Health Care (PHC) is framed in the GAP in a technical way (as primary level care, basic packages of services) and how the political dimensions of Primary Health Care, in the sense of the Alma-Ata Declaration, are left out (addressing determinants of health and issues of global justice, community and people as owners of the health system). The webinar will reflect on reports and experiences from countries where in which the PHC “accelerator” (thematic focus) of the GAP was piloted. The panel will include representatives from signatory agencies and civil society organizations (COPASAH, MMI and PHM).
Reference document
Watch the GAP. A critical civil society perspective on the development, potential impact and implementation of the ‘Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well- being for All’ (July 2020, PDF)
Zoom registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg
You only need to register once; please select which webinar(s) you would like to attend
Co-organizers
“Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative (website)
Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP, CSAG (website)
Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health, COPASAH (website)
Contacts
- COPASAH: Aminu Magashi Garba, Africa Health Budget Network (e-mail)
- Watch the GAP: Myria Koutsoumpa, Wemos (e-mail)
