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Facilitated Learning Exchange Visit-2- South Asia Region

Tumkar, January 22-24, 2014 South Asia region workshops were conducted in Mumbai in February, 2013 and in Delhi in September, 2013. Subsequent to these workshops quite a lot of conversations are happening among participants, and as a continuation to these COPASAH plans to organise three facilitated learning exchange visits in different parts of India. These […]

COPASAH Newsletter… October- December 2012

The first edition of the COPASAH Newsletter! In this issue we have mainly focused on sharing case stories from the three regions, articles on exchange visits to two countries engaged in different forms of community monitoring, recent work of some organisations, event reports, other announcements and profiles of organization and steering committee members of COPASAH. […]

South Asia Region Facilitated Learning Exchange Visit – 1

District Chanduali, Uttar Pradesh, India: December 17 – 19, 2013 Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) is a global network of practitioners that places a strong emphasis on the role of civil society to promote access to equitable, quality and accountable health services. South Asia region workshops were conducted in […]

Text of the Statement during the Press Conference ; A Call to Action for the Nigerian Government to fulfil pledges and commitments on Family Planning and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Accountability for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Nigeria (AMHiN)Wednesday: 27th November 2013 Good morning distinguished members of the press.Permit me to recall that Nigeria had received an international applause on the 11th July 2012 at the London Summit on Family Planning tagged FP2020. The London summit was facilitated by UK Government, Bill and Melinda Gates […]

“Challenges and Good Practices in Drug-Dependence Treatment Among Minors”

This video material was prepared as part of the project “Introducing drug-related treatment for children”, implemented by HOPS – Healthy Options Project Skopje. The video was filmed during the study visit to Vienna, which took place from May 12 to May 14, 2013, attended by representatives of relevant institutions of the Republic of Macedonia working […]

CSOs Shadow Report on Nigeria’s Population and Development (Daily Trust Newspaper-10/10/13)

Article by: Dr Aminu Magashi (Source: http://healthinteractive.wordpress.com) On Tuesday 27th August 2013 I published an article titled ‘Key Highlights from Global Review of ICPD + 20’. It was in connection with the just concluded African Regional Conference on Population and Development tagged ‘Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: the Future We Want for Africa’ that took place from 30 September – 4October 2013 […]

Media and Monitoring Seminar, Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain: October 29-31, 2013 “Media and Monitoring” Seminar, organized by the Health Media Initiative (HMI) and the Accountability and Monitoring in Health Initiative (AMHI) of the Open Society Foundations on October 29-31, 2013, in Barcelona, Spain

PEOPLE’S ACTION FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN HEALTH

India, Karnataka State, District: Tumkur (K. B.Obalesh is a Dalit Human Rights Activist and he was also the resource person for COPASAH South Asia Region Workshop. He is an active member of COPASAH community who has been mobilizing communities for revitalizing and strengthening public health system in Karnataka.  He has been mobilizing members of manual scavenging community and […]

A Reflection Note on the South Asia Regional Workshop

SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY PRACTICES: RICHNESS, VARIETY AND SIMILARITY The Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) South Asia Region Workshop on Social Accountability & Community Monitoring in Health (Sept 21-25, 2013) was a rich learning experience as it provided a platform to grass roots level practitioners of social accountability in various issues […]