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COPASAH-Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health stands in solidarity
with all of the frontline defenders who are at the forefront of fighting, defending and responding to COVID 19
World Health Day 2020 – Support Nurses and Midwives!
COPASAH Theme 5- Forging Alliances between Community and Health Care Workers
with all of the frontline defenders who are at the forefront of fighting, defending and responding to COVID 19
World Health Day 2020 – Support Nurses and Midwives!
COPASAH Theme 5- Forging Alliances between Community and Health Care Workers
FILM NARRATIVES ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY-CENTRED HEALTH SYSTEMS @COPASAH GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM 2019
COPASAH held a Global Symposium around the issues of Citizenship, Governance, and Accountability in Health from October 15-18, 2019 in New Delhi, India. The practitioner centred Symposium facilitated interactions between nearly 500 delegates from over 40 countries, which included practitioners in health, policymakers, academics, researchers, and other activists on common issues of concern.
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CREATIVE SPACES (FILM SESSIONS) IN THE SYMPOSIUM
The 'practitioner-centred’ Symposium, with the theme Leaving No One Behind: The Symposium had engaging creative segments and spaces to facilitate interactions and deliberations between different delegates. Amongst the creative spaces, film sessions were held in the Symposium on the themes of accountability, governance and public health. Twenty-seven films were screened through different sessions with a purpose to evolve critical review and discussion on various themes of accountability. Few of the films showcased in the Symposium sessions were entries received for the COPASAH Global Symposium 2019 Creative Accountability contest. The entries invited were related to the politics and practice/s or models of social accountability at different levels – community, health systems or policy; critical and creative narratives on the broader theme of the Symposium and the five key subthemes of the GS Community Action, Indigenous and Marginalized Peoples, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights, the Private Sector in Health, and Health Workers; highlighting challenges in accountability in relation to citizenship and governance on health-wellbeing-dignity and social justice. The films screened in the Symposium spanned from across the globe from the countries of Uganda, Tanzania, Mexico, Peru, Bangladesh, Macedonia, Guatemala, Bulgaria and South Africa other than India 
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SOME SELECTED FILMS SHOWCASED IN THE SYMPOSIUM: RED ZONE PARAMEDICS
This short film demonstrated how Abdul Martin, a paramedic who lives and works in a red-zone, i.e. a designated high-risk area, makes sense of this violence. LISTEN TO OUR VOICES
The film was about the efforts of SuMa-alliance of opening up spaces for women in rural areas to demand accountability for quality maternal health. |
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO
SAVE A MOTHER’S LIFE The film captures this journey through the voices of some of the NGO staff, women’s group and community members/leaders and health workers. |
PHM TANZANIA ACTIVISMS
The film PHM Tanzania Activisms developed by Godfrey Kamugish, showcased PHM Tanzania's PHC/UHC mobilization activities from 2017 to 2018. |
COMMUNITY DEFENDERS
ON HEALTH RIGHTS The film spelt the story of the Network of Community Defenders for the Right to Health, present in rural indigenous areas of Guatemala. . |
