Copasah

WHO WE ARE?

COPASAH is a community where practitioners who share an interest and passion for the field of community monitoring for accountability in health interact regularly and engage in exchanging experiences and lessons; sharing resources, capacities and methods; in the production and dissemination of conceptual, methodological and practical outputs towards strengthening the field; and in networking and capacity building among member organizations. This Community of practitioners was established as result of a three day ‘Practitioners Convening on Community Monitoring for Accountability in Health‘ organised by the Accountability and Monitoring in Health Initiative (AMHI) of the Open Society’s Public Health Program in July 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

What Do We Do?

OUR VISION

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

OUR 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

STEERING COMMITTEE

The COPASAH Steering Committee (SC) includes representatives from each of the three geographical regions represented in the convening (Africa, India and Latin America) and a representative from AMHI. The SC is composed of the following members:

Abhijit Das

Global Co - Convener - COPASAH
Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), India

Aminu Magashi Garba

Global Co - Convener - COPASAH
Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) Nigeria

Abhay Shukla

Member
Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives (SATHI), India

Renu Khanna

Member
Founder Member, SAHAJ Society for Health
Alternatives, Baroda, India

Walter Flores

Member
Global Convener - COPASAH
(2012 - 2014 )
Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y
Gobernanza en los Sistemas de Salud-CEGSS (Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems) (CEGSS), Guatemala

Mulumba, Moses

Member
Founder and Executive Director The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD)

Borjan Pavlovski

Member
Association for emancipation, solidarity and equality of women – ESE, Macedonia

Ariel Frisancho Arroyo

Member
CMMB, Peru

Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba

Secretariat Coordinator

Members

The Global Health Security Agenda Consortium is a voluntary and open collective of nongovernmental entities who are dedicated to promote values of collaboration, excellence, innovation, and commitment in implementing the Global Health Security Agenda and promoting the adherence of the International Health Regulations (IHRs) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS) Pathways, the Alliance for Country Assessments for Global Health Security and IHR Implementation, and the Biological Weapons Convention and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540.