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CEGSS experience Walter Flores, PhD waltergflores@gmail.com - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CEGSS experience Walter Flores, PhD waltergflores@gmail.com - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Knowledge and learning in T/A: CEGSS experience Walter Flores, PhD waltergflores@gmail.com Collecting evidence: of what? and for what purpose? Surveying drug availability at a health Discussing the findings of the care facility monitoring
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Surveying drug availability at a health care facility
Discussing the findings of the monitoring
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In-depth interviews to families..
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Walk to National Parliament
Press conference
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Meeting with Parlamentarians
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Meeting with Minister of Health
Day Month Year Place 7
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Collecting evidence: of what? and for what purpose?
Influencing authorities: ask for rigor, complex, high demand
- n resources and still influence is not guaranteed.
Generating social mobilization: understood and collected by communities, simpler indicators and data collection tools, flexibility, AUDIOVISUAL TOOLS Mobilized communities are influencing authorities with evidence obtained through their own tools and indicators
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What is success in A/T interventions? Who defines it?
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What is success in A/T interventions?
Professionals: empowerment of citizens, influencing resource allocation, reducing corruption, deliberation of public polices Communities: speaking-up, having voice, seeing eye to eye with healthcare providers and authorities Firstly: challenging existing power relations, generating hope, stop oppressive treatment/lack of dignity, establishing channels for engagement. THEN THE REST…
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Two major revelations…
- Professionals: don´t know what is to live with failing
essential public services, discrimination, marginalization, lack of dignity…
- Authorities, politicians and bureaucrats that decide
about public services (health, education, transport) do not use them…
- Shouldn´t those people using the services and
suffering the consequences/benefits have voice and decision?
- Consulting communities about empowerment and
- ther outcome indicators, tools and processes
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How do we at CEGSS generate knowledge and learning?
- Through collective action with communities
- Expansion in the use of ethnography and
audiovisual tools
- Broader expertise in our team (journalism,
law, sociology, cinematography)
- Emphasis in learning by doing and systematic
documentation of processes
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Some examples of collective knowledge and learning
- Action training in engaging with provincial and
national government and politics
- Community ethnographers
- Electronic platform for citizens´vigilance of
public policies and health care services
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