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September 2014
Occasional
Paper
Reclaiming public health through community-based
monitoring: The case of Maharashtra, India
Abhay Shukla,
Shelley Saha Sinha and SATHI
 Community-based monitoring and planning (CBMP) of health
services in Maharashtra state, India represents an innovative
participatory approach to improving accountability and healthcare
delivery. Supported by diverse stories of change, the paper shows
how this process created various forums and spaces for dialogue and led
to systematic data collection on health indicators that point to greater
accessibility and quality of services at village as well as primary
health centre levels.
The authors ask whether this experience could inform ‘communitization’ of
health services in diverse contexts, as an alternative to privatization
and as a means to enhancing the ‘publicness’ of health services. Read more...
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Translations
Dutch +
Turkish subtitles for video on Universal Health Coverage. Thanks to Geneeskunde voor de Derde
Wereld (G3W) in Belgium for making our animation available in
Dutch! The video can now support their ongoing campaign denouncing health
privatizations under the European Development Agenda and
propose alternatives.
Big thanks to Yalç Bürkev from NotaBene Publishing for translation
and dissemination in Turkey!
Watch on YouTube >
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Event
Launch of MSP
paper on labour-community alliances for public water. On October 3,
Olmedo Tapias, José Noé Garcia, Tulio Murillo and Madeleine Bélanger will
present the findings of their action-research project focusing on the
innovative partnership between the community water system of La Sirena
and public workers in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The event hosted in
Medellín will close a week-long meeting of local community aqueducts,
Latin American water operators and public sector unions, an initiative of
the Platform for Public-Community
Partnerships in the Americas.
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