Meeting on Public Participation in Health Systems
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March 2000
Zimbabwe
The Public Participation and Governance Programme in EQUINET will be
holding a 3 day Southern African Regional Meeting on Public Partici-
pation in Health Systems in March 2000 in Zimbabwe (dates to be
finalised). The meeting aims to gather researchers, civil society,
elected and local and central government delegates involved in work
and policy review on enhancing public participation in health sys-
tems. It will draw from exchange of national level programmes and re-
search to identify general areas for policy review and programme
strengthening to enhance public participation in health systems,
along a number of dimensions:
1. Identification of health needs, problems, priorities and goals.
2. Implementing health promotion, preventive and curative health ser-
vices, particularly at primary health care level.
3. Resource mobilisation and allocation within health systems.
4. Monitoring and improving quality of health services.
5. Mechanisms for participation in health planning and governance at
all levels of health systems.
The meeting aims to strengthen national/local work in this area
through exchange of information between active programmes, and to
draw generalisable conclusions that can be brought to national policy
fora and to the SADC Health Sector for policy review. The meeting
also aims to strengthen regional networking on and identify areas for
further research and action on public participation and health, ei-
ther through EQUINET or other collaborative frameworks. The meeting
will include review of research taking place under EQUINET in this
area and will provide input to the Southern African Regional Meeting
on Equity in Health, to be held in September 2000.
EQUINET would like to invite groups involved in these areas of work
to the meeting. We are keen to involve those carrying out research
AND those working in policy, local and central government and health
programmes. EQUINET will sponsor a number of delegates to the meeting
from southern African countries, and to this end invites people work-
ing this area who are interested in this meeting to submit a brief
outline covering:
* Their names, institutions and contact information;
* An outline (in a few paragraphs) of the work they are carrying out
(intervention/research/capacity development/other) its objectives,
and the stage it is at;
* The institutions ('stakeholder groups') involved in the work;
* The theme area in (1)-(5) above that is most relevant / interesting
to you;
* Whether you would need sponsorship to attend the meeting.
We look forward to hearing from you. Please also pass this announce-
ment to groups working in this area who are not on e-mail and ask
them to reply to us at:
TARSC
47 Van Praagh Ave, Milton Park
Harare / Zimbabwe
Fax +263-4-737-220
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Dr Rene Loewenson
EQUINET Co-ordinator
mailto:rloewenson@healthnet.zw
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