Vision

Communities are actively engaged in promoting accountability and transforming health systems towards the realization of social justice.

Mission

Our mission is to nurture, strengthen and promote collective knowledge, skills and capacity of community-oriented organisations and health activists - primarily from Africa, Asia and Latin America - working in the field of accountability and social action in health, for promoting active citizenship to make health systems responsive, equitable and people-centred.

Values

COPASAH believes that in order to make our vision a reality, community monitoring for accountability in health must

• enable communities facing inequities to assert their rights and to participate in concrete actions to bring about changes in health services and equitable distribution of resources
• give voice to peoples’ perspectives
• be an empowering process where actors related to the health system are encouraged to address power imbalances that affect people’s health
• be linked to an action or advocacy plan which aims to influence or change  health policies and programs.

Strategies

• Nurturing a community of practitioners will be done through the cross pollination of ideas, experiences and resources
• Facilitate systematic exchange of knowledge and practice
• Create opportunities for interaction between practitioners
• Collection, collation and production of appropriate conceptual and operational
• Inform and influence others
• Building strategic alliances
• Knowledge building
• Collaborative action