At the upcoming Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, we will be running a participatory session that builds on research from Uganda, Bangladesh and Nepal, entitled Amplifying Marginalised Voices: Towards Meaningful Inclusion in Social Accountability Mechanisms for Health. This session applies an intersectional lens to accountability mechanisms, asking about the inclusion of specific, marginalised categories within communities in mainstream accountability initiatives.
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If you watch soccer, you will agree with me that just like a football team working together to set up the perfect shot at goal, every team member has a specific role to play in accomplishing tasks on an initiative that requires joint effort. While it may look like one player scored the goal, that score was made possible by on and off pitch team members’ planning, coordination, and cooperation to get that scorer the ball.
That is what we have observed with the different stakeholders as we implement a study that is testing a community and facility score card for maternal and newborn health service delivery in Kibuku District in Eastern Uganda.
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Moses Tetui, FHS Researcher, writes for New Vision about the FHS Community Score Card Project being undertaken in eastern Uganda by Makerere University School of Public Health to improve maternal health.
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For World Health Day 2018, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda, calls on Africans to hold their politicians accountable for meeting the health care needs of their people, and delivering on the commitments they made in the Abuja Declaration 17 years ago.
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Caroline Namugwere (not real name) is a 27 year old disabled woman and resident of Kibuku District in Eastern Uganda. Her pregnancy experience was laden with challenges right from attending antenatal clinic appointments to delivery. Inquiry into the plight of the marginalised is part of what the Community Score Cards study of Makerere University School of Public Health in partnership with the Future Health Systems Research Consortium intends to explore over the coming months in Kibuku District in Eastern Uganda. Specific to the case of Caroline and other marginalised groups, the following research question is being pursued: To what extent does a community scorecard process incorporate and address the maternal and newborn service related needs of marginalized populations?
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