Photo-story of the facilitated learning exchange visit in East and Southern Africa – 22-26 June
The workshop was held on March 5-6, 2014 at Shelton Guest House University Town Peshawar. Multiple resource material was developed for the guidance of the members of SANP. The workshop was designed and conducted by CESSD Governance section. The workshop was opened by Gulbaz Ali Khan, Senior Manager-Governance& Capacity Development, CESSD. He provided all out […]
Community Centered Health Systems for improved governance and accountability in Health: An Analysis of the COPASAH Symposium- Denis Bukenya (PHM Uganda)
Community Centered Health Systems for improved governance and accountability in Health: An Analysis of the COPASAH Symposium Denis Bukenya (People’s Health Movement Uganda/HURIC) The title to the COPASAH Symposium alone set the pace to this Analysis, “Leaving no one behind: Strengthening Community Centred Health Systems for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”. This title in my mind […]
COPASAH Global Symposium 2019 on Citizenship Governance Accountability in Health
Leaving No One Behind: Strengthening Community Centred Health Systems for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 15-18 October, 2019 – India Habitat Centre, New-Delhi, India Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) www.copasah.net in collaboration with its alliances for social accountability and human rights for the health, well- being and dignity of the marginalised is organizing a […]
Social Accountability: A Process Oriented Community Practice
THE accountability discourse is gaining momentum globally. However, the dominant discourse of accountability continues to be instrumentalist in its approach, which sees it as a technical report at the worst or merely as an intervention to improve health sector performance, at best. It is also tagged to efficiency, defined as value for money or getting […]
Re-thinking Social Accountability through a Power Discourse
Following the path of a good learning organisation, COPASAH undertook a year long journey of reflection on its relevance to the field of accountability and evaluating its own strategic directions and pathways. The process which began in 2016 with the community feedback and strategic directions meeting in Vancouver (November 2017), continued with an external evaluation […]
ICT FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY-COPASAH
COPASAH SOUTH ASIA EXCHANGE AND STRENGTHENING MEET ON SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN HEALTH IN THE SOUTH ASIA REGION DECEMBER 4-6, 2016; KATHMANDU, NEPAL
INTRODUCTION COPASAH – Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health – is a global community of practitioners who share a people –centric vision and human rights based approach to health, health care and human dignity ( http://www.copasah.net). COPASAH’S mission is to nurture, strengthen and promote collective knowledge, skills and capacity of communityoriented organisations […]
Roma Minority and Social Accountability in Macedonia
Roma minority in the countries of the South Eastern European region represents the most marginalized minority of people who live in unfavorable social and economic conditions compared to the general population. Roma people are deprived in many spheres of their lives, including housing, education, employment and health, access to health care and discrimination in health […]
The Roma People in Europe : A Story of Marginalization and Exclusion-COPASAH GLOBAL SECRETARIAT
The Roma People and related minority communities constitute Europe’s largest and most vulnerable minority and are present in nearly all member states. There are an estimated 10-12 million Roma in Europe, particularly in Bulgaria (10.33% of total population), Republic of Macedonia (9.59%), Slovakia (9.17 %), Romania (8.32%), Serbia (excluding Kosovo) (8.18%) and Hungary (7.05%). Turkey, Albania, […]
Report on the East and Southern Africa (ESA) Regional Strengthening Meeting July 26-27,2016, Kampala, Uganda
Since the inception of Community of Practitioners on Social Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH), the East and Southern Africa (ESA) member institutions have registered achievements as individual initiatives owing to the knowledge acquired from Facilitated Learning Exchange Visits. However, the COPASAH ESA membership has experienced limited engagement among members thus affecting further growth […]