The Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) brought together practitioners, experts and key facilitators in the field of accountability from Gujarat for a four days State level workshop on “Social Accountability and Community Action on Health” from March 25-28, 2014. The workshop had been co-organised by Sahaj, Anandi and Sarathi with support from
The objectives of the workshop were:
– To increase awareness among participants on health, health right, entitlements and social political determinants of health
–To inform participants about concepts of social accountability and community action on
–To inform participants about concepts of social accountability and community action on healthincludingcommunity based monitoring
–To increase awareness among the participants on various methods and tools for community based monitoring
–To increase the level of skillamong the participantson evidence based community action
The COPASAH website was screened with an overview of its inception, how the community was formed and who all can be a part of it. The participants were walked through the various features and resources given in the website and were encouraged to contribute with their stories and practices pertaining to community monitoring.
A photo-story providing glimpses of the four day training can be referred to below:
