PHOTO STORY OF THE FACILITATED LEARNING VISIT IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA, KAMPALA UGANDA – 22nd to 26th JUNE, 2014
PHOTO STORY OF THE FACILITATED LEARNING VISIT IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA June 2014
Fundamentals for Using Technology in Transparency and Accountability Organisations
A good resource to those thinking and/or working on using “Technology” in your work! A collaborative effort between the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) and FabRiders, this ‘Fundamentals’ guide is designed to help organizations who want to use technology to improve the impact of their transparency and accountability work. It will assist you to develop overall […]
COPASAH Communique – January – March 2014
The sixth edition of the newsletter contains articles from India, Macedonia, Africa, Latin America and updates from different parts of the world on the engagement of COPASAH members. This issue covers innovations in practice from around the world and also updates about the facilitated learning exchange facilitated by COPASAH and participation of COPASAH members in the upcoming global symposium on […]
Citizen Monitoring to Promote the Right to Health Care and Accountability
By Ariel Frisancho and Maria Luisa Vasquez CARE (Peru), ForoSalud and COPASAH have prepared the case study on citizen monitoring to promote the right to health care and accountability. In the context of Peru where transparency and accountability is still a challenge, citizen health care monitoring is promoted as a mechanism of citizen participation aimed […]
Developing an Approach Towards Social Accountability of Private Healthcare Services
By Anant Phadke, Abhijit More, Abhay Shukla, Arun Gadre The paper mainly deal with social accountability of private healthcare services in developing countries, with a focus on India as an example. The idea of social accountability of private healthcare services is discussed as follows‐ • Firstly, the rationale and perspective related to need for social accountability of […]
A Photo Story – State level workshop on Social Accountability and Community Action on Health
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 […]
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY BASED MONITORING AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN NEPAL
Beyond Beijing Committee organised a half day introductory session on the concepts of Community Monitoring and Social Accountability in Kathmandu, Nepal. Rakshya Paudyal, who got opportunities to be a part of the COPASAH workshop held in Mumbai, and second peer learning visit in Tumkur, Karnataka, introduced the concept of Community Based Monitoring and Social Accountability in Nepal. The […]
COPASAH as a Global Learning Community
It is about two years since the idea of a community of practitioners on accountability in health emerged from an enriching discussion in 2011 held in Johannesburg (South Africa). The collective thinking process on the need of building learning from practice led to measures such as enhancing capacities of practitioners in citizen centric accountability framework, […]
COPASAH Accountability Lab
Theme – Critical Accountability Issues for Practitioners of Accountability in Health Delhi: 22nd April, 2014 The Theme: The theme ‘Critical Accountability Issues for Practitioners of Accountability in Health ‘ is fixed for the first accountability lab for facilitating clarity among practitioners on the various perspectives on accountability such as promoted by World Bank, international donor […]
Community Based Monitoring and Planning in Maharashtra, India
By Abhay Shukla, Shelley Saha, Nitin Jadhav Community based monitoring has emerged today as a powerful approach to make health services accountable and responsive. In India, the National Rural Health Mission has been supporting Community based monitoring and planning (CBMP) in several states since 2007, of which Maharashtra is one state where the process has […]