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Robinahkaitiritimba
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Background
COPASAH is a global community of practitioners on accountability and social action in health. It strives for communities actively engaging in promoting account-ability and transforming health systems towards the realization of wellbeing dignity and social jus-tice. COPASAH has nurtured, strengthened and promoted collec-tive knowledge, skills, capacity of community-oriented organizations in the field of accountability and social action in health for promot-ing active citizenship to make health systems responsive, democ-ratic, equitable and people centric. Along with several strategies of handholding and facilitating sys-temic exchange of knowledge, practice and resource sharing with a peer learning methodology, CO-PASAH has envisaged the Facili-tated Learning Exchange (FLE) visits. Facilitate learning exchange is modelled on the peer learning theory and is built in the learning processes of COPASAH. These learning exchange visits aim to provide practitioners an opportu-nity to visit a relevant organiza-tion’s work and learn from their social accountability practice using a common set of principles. |
Participants exchanging learnings of field visit during a debriefing session
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The issue of outreach services was discussed, as the participants were keen to establish how these are carried out by the Maiella facility. The HFMC suggested that they carry out three outreach pro-grammes every month in Ngondi, Narasha and Nkambani villages, where MCH services are mainly offered.
Having gained a firsthand experi-ence of NTA’s approach from the field and after interaction with community in the field, the visiting members anlaysed the strengths, gaps and suggested action for im-provement (See Table1: Strengths Gaps Actions for Improvement) Conclusion All the participants reflected that facilitated learning exchange visit was an excellent opportunity for experience sharing. These experi-ences if taken on board with the country context in mind would go a long way in ensuring robust health systems where the power was with the community, allowing it to take centre stage. Some key suggestions made by the participants deriving from the FLE:
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Strengths, Gaps and Actions for Improvement
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