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Civil Society – The Missing Link in Health Systems?
The seminar was mainly to convey the message that CSOs have existing capabilities and comparative advantages in studying the efficiency of health systems, recommending possible improvements for a variety of health care components, and undertaking evidence-based advocacy to strengthen systems. While many CSOs cited specific success stories that have helped to improve the quality of and access to health care for marginalised groups with collaborations and support from other development agents which can make the work of CSOs more impactful and sustainable. George Cheriyan (Director, CUTS International) made a presentation on ‘Community Monitoring of Health Worker Absenteeism’. Out of the three presentations, the other presentations were from Neil Overy, Public Service Accountability Monitor (Grahamstown, South Africa) and Denis Kibera, Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development (Kampala, Uganda). Nicole C Klingen (Senior Health Specialist, World Bank) was one of the discussants, who shared the World Bank’s work in health sector in various countries. The other discussant was Jeffrey L Sturchio, President and CEO, GHC. The event was moderated by Nicholas Burnett, Results for Development Institute, Washington, DC. More
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Global Health Council (GHC) jointly with Results for Development
(R4D) Institute organised a seminar entitled ‘Civil Society – The
Missing Link in Health Systems? at the GHC conference hall, Washington
DC, on March 29, 2010. The objective of the seminar was to highlight the
work done by civil society organisations (CSOs) which has led to
improvement in various aspects of health systems, including human
resources, efficiency of public spending, access to pharmaceuticals, and
quality of health care; and to explore ways in which CSOs could
strengthen their existing work to bolster health systems and how others
could support their work.