PHM-Exch> PHA3 workshop: In the public interest? The role of NGOs in global health governance and civil society

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Thomas Schwarz MMI <schwarz at medicusmundi.org>


A group of NGOs and international NGO networks will contribute to the
People’s Health Assembly in Cape Town with a critical reflection on the
role and the future of private not for profit health service providers and
international NGOs: What does it need to make NGOs part of the solution and
not the problem? We will link the discussion on the integration of NGOs in
national health systems with debates on the role of NGOs in global health
governance and civil society. Please have a look at the program below. If
you are with us in Cape Town, you are welcome to join us.  ****



For the organizers: Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary, Medicus Mundi
International Network

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*In the public interest? The role of NGOs *

*in global health governance and civil society*

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Saturday, 7 July 2012, 17:00-19:00, room C9****

*The challenge of integration*

 *“NGOs, if not careful and vigilant, can undermine the public sector and
even the health system as a whole, by diverting health workers, managers
and leaders into privatized operations that create parallel structures to
government and that tend to worsen the isolation of communities from formal
health systems.”*

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 Regina Bakitte and George Tumwesigye Owakukiroru, UCMB, Uganda:****

The challenge of integrating private not for profit health service
providers in the national health system of Uganda****

  Gemma Salvetti and Bruno Abarca, Medicus Mundi Catalunya, Angola office:

NGOs and health system strengthening – proposals to increase integration
and improve impact****

  Thomas Schwarz, Medicus Mundi International Network.

Is your NGO rather strengthening or weakening the national health system? **
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 Inputs followed by open discussion.

Moderator: Remco van de Pas, Wemos, Netherlands****

Both modules can be attended independently.****

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Sunday, 8 July 2012, 17:00-19:00, room C9****

*NGOs – the good, the bad and the evil?*

 *“International NGOs are at a crossroads. Caught up in a tide of
technocracy, they have become outsider experts disconnected from the real
struggle. But which road should they take? Can they transform societies, or
should they opt for a more modest role, as catalysts for change?”*

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 Thomas Gebauer, medico international, Germany:****

Aiding at change and abetting crimes - high time to re-politicise NGOs****

  Itai Rusike: Community Working Group on Health, Zimbabwe

A look at NGOs from a civic/community based organization
 Angela Kageni, Aidspan, Kenya****

Civil society as "watchdogs" in national and international health policy
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 Joyce Chanetsa, IBFAN****

Public vs. business interest NGOs as actors in global health
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Inputs followed by open discussion.****

Moderator: Remco van de Pas, Wemos, Netherlands****

Both modules can be attended independently.****

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Workshop details, documentation, organizers: www.bit.ly/pha3-ngo-workshop
Workshop announcement as PDF: www.bit.ly/pha3-ngo-workshop-leaflet ****

Contact: schwarz at medicusmundi.org  ****
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