Community Participation in Africa: My Knowledge of my own Society Conflicted with the Theory – Interview with Fred Golooba-Mutebi – by Jean-Benoit Falisse
Jean-Benoît Falisse We continue our exploration of community participation in Africa, 25 years after the Bamako Initiative. Dr. Frederick Golooba-Mutebi is a political scientist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester and Research Associate of the Africa Power and Politics Programme at the Overseas Development Institute in […]
Who Are We To Care? Exploring The Relationship between Participation, Knowledge And Power in Health Systems
Barbara Kaim This paper is dedicated to those many people who live in countries where health systems are failing to meet the needs of the majority, and where people with less power – whether health care providers, individuals, families or communities – have few structured opportunities to express their concerns openly and critically. It is […]
The Power of Failure
By Sarika Bansal A very interesting article which talks about “Failfairs” or public events where people share and learn from development failures. Read full article
How can participatory development be improved?
By Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao of the World Bank Community development projects, and interventions that attempt to improve the “demand side” of governance, are premised on the belief that public participation will necessarily solve failures in governments and markets. The problem in the design of these interventions, however, is that civic capacity is either assumed to be high rather […]
Second Newsletter… January- March 2013
With its second issue, our newsletter has got named “COPASAH Communique”. Unlike communiqués issued by governments and those in power, we expect our communiqué to be a platform for interaction and dialogue. With this issue, we welcome experiences from a new region- Eastern Europe. Read full newsletter
Policy Brief on Financing of Reproductive Health in Uganda 2012
AHEAD for World Bank partners in Uganda are advocating to ensure that Sexual Reproductive Health Reproductive becomes a priority for World Bank lending, and is included in policy documents such as Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and the Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEF) in Uganda.Financing is central to the health system performance and effectiveness in […]
Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Shadow Report on the Performance of the Health Sector in 2011/2012
The Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV&AIDS (AGHA) is a health rights advocacy organization in Uganda dedicated to raising awareness of the human rights aspects of health, and improving the quality of health and healthcare for all Ugandans. It is underpinned by the principles of the rights-based approach to mobilize health professionals, in […]
Health Centre Committees: Vital For People Centered Health Systems in Zimbabwe
Itai Rusike The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) and Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) in Zimbabwe have been advocating for the formalisation of Health Centre Committees (HCCs), giving them a legal status through a statutory instrument. Many countries are facing similar issues with regards to the HCCs where there are policy commitments without […]
South Asian Practitioners Workshop “Community Monitoring and Social Accountability of Health Programmes”
Community of Practitioners for Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) organised a three- days South Asian regional workshop in Mumbai, India, from 20th – 22nd Feb, 2013. The workshop was organised with a view to continue dialogue and exchange approaches, experiences, methods and possible further strategies regarding development of community monitoring and accountability in […]
Balkans Guatemala Exchange
From November 28-December 5 year 2012, seven organizations working with Roma population in the Balkans, participated in an exchange with the Center for Studies of Equity and Governance in Health Systems (CEGSS), Guatemala. This video summarizes the different activities carried-out during that visit. The video is available on the COPASAH website at http://www.copasah.net/film-gallery.html