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COPASAH SOUTH ASIA FACILITATED LEARNING EXCHANGE VISIT – 3

The detailed report of the third South Asia region -Facilitated Learning Exchange (FLE) under COPASAH in India, organised from September 18-20, 2014 at Nagpur in the state of Maharashtra, with SATHI as the host organisation describes experience of learning about community action in nutrition services besides sharing of experiences by social accountability practitioners from across […]

COPASAH Communique April – June 2014

The seventh edition of  COPASAH Communiqué  contains articles on practice of accountability in health from India, Africa and other parts of the world  as well as updates on the engagement of COPASAH members.  The  updates on  the facilitated learning exchange initiated  by COPASAH, the COPASAH accountability lab  and participation of COPASAH members in the upcoming global symposium […]

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 […]