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COPASAH GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM 2019
15-18 OCTOBER 2019, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI, INDIA
15-18 OCTOBER 2019, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI, INDIA
Leaving No One Behind: Strengthening Community Centred Health Systems
for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
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.
Building upon the current interest on achieving universal health coverage and the need to include the most marginalized within the ambit of health systems as active participants, COPASAH organized a Global Symposium on Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health, between 15-18 October, 2019 in New –Delhi, India.
Building upon the current interest on achieving universal health coverage and the need to include the most marginalized within the ambit of health systems as active participants, COPASAH organized a Global Symposium on Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health, between 15-18 October, 2019 in New –Delhi, India.
The 'practitioner-centred’ Symposium, with the theme Leaving No One Behind: Strengthening Community Centred Health Systems for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals focused on sharing and learning from the practice by practitioners of diverse cultural, linguistic, geo-political and national contexts, primarily from the global south.The Symposium facilitated interactions, between around 500 delegates from over 40 countries which included practitioners in health; policy makers, academics, researchers, and other activists on common issues of concern.
The interactions and exchanges in the Symposium were facilitated through seven plenaries, nineteen practitioner huddles, fifteen thematic sessions around five key thematic axes, twelve inter-thematic discourses, three performance and practice based workshops, twenty films and six assemblies endorsing the practitioners’ social accountability charter.
The interactions and exchanges in the Symposium were facilitated through seven plenaries, nineteen practitioner huddles, fifteen thematic sessions around five key thematic axes, twelve inter-thematic discourses, three performance and practice based workshops, twenty films and six assemblies endorsing the practitioners’ social accountability charter.
SESSIONS AT A GLANCE
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OVERVIEW |
SATELLITE SESSIONS |
INAUGURAL ASSEMBLY |
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PLENARIES |
THEMATIC SESSIONS |
INTER-THEMATIC SESSIONS |
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ACCOUNTABILITY PRAXIS |
ASSEMBLIES |
SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY CHARTER |
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KEY TAKEAWAYS OF THE SYMPOSIUM |
FEEDBACK AND REVIEWS |
With the multi- stakeholder convergence of practitioners, academia, policy and global bodies such as Independent Accountability Panel of WHO, Health Systems Global, and overall strengthening of practitioners through their contribution to the themes and discussions, COPASAH has increased its reach both in terms of constituencies and geographies.
The unique symposium has reinforced the need for strengthening the practitioners of social accountability at various levels to strengthen citizenship.
The unique symposium has reinforced the need for strengthening the practitioners of social accountability at various levels to strengthen citizenship.