How can political leaders help ensure Community Score Cards in Uganda are sustainable?
Future Health Systems
Beginning in June 2017, the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), in collaboration with Future Health Systems, has been implementing a CSC project focusing on maternal and newborn health service delivery and utilization in six sub-counties in Kibuku district, Uganda. As one of its exit strategies, the project carried out a qualitative study that explored ways of involving political leaders in the CSC process to ensure its sustainability.
This Issue Brief identifies the following priority actions:
- Coordinate CSC activities and ensure that political leaders at all levels are involved in the implementation of these activities
- Advocate for the incorporation of CSC activities in the health facility, sub-county and district work plans and budgets
- Participate in the selection and training of CSC facilitators