Volume 31. Issue 1
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Introduction: Accountability through Participation: Developing Workable Partnership Models in the Health Sector
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Public Participation in Health Systems in Zimbabwe
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article outlines some of the challenges faced in moving away from a health system largely planned and governed by technical personnel to one that involves wider public participation and accountability in ... -
Testing Community Empowerment Strategies in Zimbabwe: Examples from Nutrition Supplementation, and Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article provides a brief overview and examples of how communities were involved in feeding programmes during years of drought in Zimbabwe, and in the management of rural water supply and sanitation programmes ... -
The Functions of Participation in a Village?Based Health Pre?Payment Scheme: What Can Participation Actually Do?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article analyses micro?level interactions in one case study to argue that participation does not necessarily lead to accountability. The case study covers the process of establishment, implementation and ... -
Participation: A Way to Better Health Outcomes?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary The term ‘participation’ appears frequently in both international health documents and the national and local health documents of China. However, in all these documents there have rarely been concrete explanations ... -
Health Partnerships in Zambia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary Taking as read the need for strong and effective partnerships between health service providers and consumers, the article addresses an example of successful partnership from Zambia. It identifies a community?based ... -
The Role of Evaluation in Accountability in Donor?Funded Projects
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary Based on many years of experience in the monitoring and evaluation of health and related projects in Nigeria, this article emphasises the need for a new approach, giving much greater responsibility to community?based ... -
Between Communities and Health Facilities in Health Service Delivery: Reality or Myth?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary Health service delivery remains a challenge for rural Kenya. Health sector reforms have come in at a time when different models are being tried to improve access and utilisation of health services being offered ... -
Involvement of Community in Health Systems Management: An Experience from Sindh, Province of Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary The community is the ultimate barometer of success or failure of an intervention. Involvement of community members in health care programmes, decision?making, evaluation and implementation is a major means for ... -
Partnerships for Health: A Way of Working with Women's Groups to Improve Community Health in Rural Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article describes how partnerships with women's groups can offer a way of improving health in the ‘community’. It draws on theexperience of the Women's Empowerment Support Team (WEST) in Eastern Nepal, in a ... -
The Experience of the Catholic Relief Services Community?Based Primary Health Care Programme
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article documents the experience of Catholic Relief Services through its Community?Based Primary Health Care Program (CBPHCP) in Battambang, Cambodia, in the development of structures and systems of community ... -
Whose Accountability?: Participation and Partnership in a Disabling Environment
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary The article reviews the development of community participation and accountability under the auspices of a donor?funded basic health services project in Benue state, Nigeria. The three?year work of the Benue Health ... -
Local People Assume Responsibility for their Health Service: The Experience of the Mahankal Health Service Management Committee, Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article will describe the activities of the Baudha Bahunipati Family Welfare Project (BBP), which was set up by the national level NGO Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) in 1973, initially to distribute ... -
Partnerships and Participation: Synthesising Methods to Improve the Quality of Planning and Training for Primary Health Care Services at District Level in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary Participation has been encouraged for many years in health development work, as a means to involve populations in improving the appropriateness and quality of their local health services. This article is an attempt ... -
Bridging the Gap between Communities and Service Providers: Developing Accountability through Community Mobilisation Approaches
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2000)Summary This article reviews Save the Children/US and Johns Hopkins University's experience to date in two USAID?funded pilot projects that aim to increase community participation in improving health in rural areas of ... -
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