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EDITORIAL
Social Accountability in East Southern Africa - Engaging and Empowering Communities
By ABHIJIT DAS
By ABHIJIT DAS
This issue of COPASAH Communique has an exclusive focus on the practice of Social Accountability in Sub Saharan Africa. You will read of different initiatives primarily from Uganda and from Zimbabwe. They highlight different arenas of action – from the settlement community to the Parliament, and different methods through which citizen's interact with their health service providers and policy makers including the use of more well-known methods like Score Cards and Participatory Action Research (PAR) and the use of emerging methods like photo-documentation. As practitioners we are all certain that citizen feedback on programming is essential to increase ownership as well as utilisation of health services. Read more
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ZIMBABWE
A Story in Words and Images from Cassa Banana Informal Settlement, Zimbabwe
This combination of photo document and text spells out a story of the community engagement in Cassa Banana settlement of Zimbabwe. Nine community members were trained as community photographers using a PAR tool called Photovoice. The photographers took hundreds of photographs reflecting the lives and struggles in their community. The initiative has led TARSC, ZIMBABWE, CBCHC AND COMMUNITY PHOTOGRAPHERS to building a body of knowledge through photographs and has dwelled on strategies to support community efforts, to take action and on how to hold duty bearers accountable. Read more
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UGANDA
Strengthening Social Accountability through Community Dialogues
By JOAN KILANDE AND ERIC WAKABI The story details out the initiative of Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development (HEPS UGANDA), of engagement to Stop Medicine Stock Outs (COME) aiming to foster action, engagement and participation of the community. This initiative which kick started in March 2014 was to get the public health facilities in Lira and Kiboga districts up to health care standards. JOAN KILANDE AND ERIC WAKABI Citizen Report Card (CRC), a social accountability tool was used to provide feedback received from the users of public services to the public health agency. The initiative shows that the community engagement can increase social accountability and resultantly
community leaders are forging a path towards advocacy of health rights for all. Read more |
UGANDA
Intensifying Advocacy for the Legalization of the Right to Health in Uganda
By MOSES TALIBITA
By MOSES TALIBITA
This case highlights the campaign of UNHCO in Uganda to make legitimate the demand by citizens for the universal enjoyment of health goods and services. Read more
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UGANDA
Launching of the Uganda Maternal Health Score Card - Towards Transparency and Accountability
By AZIZ AGABA This case reflects the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) scorecard launched in Uganda to ensure transparency and accountability. The RMNCH scorecard is a mechanism through which decision makers, and other different stakeholders like community leaders, civil society organisations, etc. can track progress on RMNCH performance using metrics at different levels from national, regional, district and subdistrict level. The scorecard represents significant tool for identifying locally owned solutions to RMNCH performance issues.Read more
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COPASAH GLOBAL
Mapping Social Accountability in East South Africa: Independent Research Collaboration with COPASAH
By LUUL BALESTRA
By LUUL BALESTRA
This introductory brief of an independent researcher, Luul Balestra, highlights an independent research collaboration with COPASAH being undertaken with a goal to map the field of social accountability in health in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Read more
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COPASAH GLOBAL
COPASAH at the Learning Exchange: Transparency/Accountability Strategies
By E. PREMDAS PINTO & OTHERS This brief report spells out COPASAH's Steering Committee members and COPASAH coordinator's participation in a Learning Exchange on Transparency/Accountability strategies and reproductive health delivery systems held at the American University on June 27 and 28, 2016. Read more
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MALAWI
Our Bodies, Our Lives – A Campaign for Better Antiretroviral (ARVs) in Malawi Enacting Social Accountability Through Women's Activism and Organising
By SHEREENESSOF AND ALIA KHAN JUST ASSOCIATES SOUTHERN AFRICA (JASS SNA)
By SHEREENESSOF AND ALIA KHAN JUST ASSOCIATES SOUTHERN AFRICA (JASS SNA)
The case discusses Just Associates (JASS) work in Malawi, which began in 2007 as an effort to facilitate and support the greater participation of women living with HIV/ AIDS (WLHIV). It discusses JASS's entry into Malawi and the iterative process by which it worked with more than 1,200 WLHIV to strengthen both individual and collective voice and agency with the goal of transforming the structural drivers of discrimination, inequality and violence. Read more
