<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ravi Ram</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ravimram@gmail.com">ravimram@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">I strongly encourage you to register for this webinar, either for today or for the upcoming webinars on the next two Mondays. For all who have signed and endorsed the Kampala Declaration - aiming to reform/transform development cooperation within and beyond aid - the discussions today and in the coming weeks show what is possible and what has been achieved.<div><br></div><div>These promise to be very important discussions for civil society in health.</div><div><br></div>Ravi<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 08:47, Thomas Schwarz <<a href="mailto:schwarz@medicusmundi.org" target="_blank">schwarz@medicusmundi.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="DE-CH"><div><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Stronger Collaboration, Better Health? Watch the GAP!<br>Webinar 1: Monday 19 October 2020, 14.00-15.30 CEST<br>The GAP and civil society – civil society and the GAP</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">The “Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative, the Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP (CSAG) and the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) invite civil society colleagues and others interested to a series of three webinars to discuss and reflect on the development and the first year of the implementation of the “Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All” (GAP). Find more information below. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">The webinar today will focus on the set-up and the objectives of the GAP as seen by the 12 GAP agencies and civil society. We will discuss the first progress report, with a particular focus on the initial plan and current reality of how to involve, address and support civil society and communities. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Confirmed panellists:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Aminu Magashi Garba, Community of Practitioners for Accountability and Social Action in Health COPASAH<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Andy Seale, WHO, GAP Accelerator on Communities and Civil Society<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Hendrik Schmitz, WHO, GAP Secretariat<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Isadora Quick, WHO, GAP Secretariat<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Loyce Pace, Global Health Council, GAP Civil Society Advisory Group<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Melissa Sobers, UNAIDS, GAP Accelerator on Communities and Civil Society<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Myria Koutsoumpa, Wemos, Watch the GAP task group of the Kampala Initiative (also moderating)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Thomas Schwarz, Medicus Mundi International Network, Watch the GAP task group of the Kampala Initiative<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Zoom registration<br><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Join us!<br>Thomas, MMI Secretariat<br>Watch the GAP task group<br>of the Kampala Initiative<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(79,129,189)" lang="EN-GB">.................</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><br><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189)">Series of webinars on 19/26 October and 2 November 2020<br>Stronger Collaboration, Better Health? Watch the GAP!<br></span></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Meeting website: <a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampalawebinars/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">here</span></a> – Zoom registration: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(79,129,189)" lang="EN-GB">.................</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">In September 2019, at a side event to the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, twelve multilateral health, development and humanitarian agencies launched the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.who.int/initiatives/sdg3-global-action-plan" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">“to better support countries over the next ten years to accelerate progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals through strengthened collaboration and coordination”. One year into the GAP, in September 2020, its first </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240010277" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">progress report</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <span lang="EN-GB">was published and launched in an online event hosted by the WHO, where representatives from signatory agencies and governments expressed their support to the GAP commitments.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">The “Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative, the Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP (CSAG) and the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) invite civil society colleagues and others interested to a series of three webinars to discuss and reflect on the development and the first year of the implementation of the “Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All” (GAP).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">In our webinar series we will focus on different elements of the GAP, together with representatives from the GAP Secretariat, civil society, and some of the signatory agencies. In times of COVID-19, when the challenges of international health cooperation are multiplied by the pandemic, can the GAP make a difference? The co-organizers want to inspire civil society to advocate for more space for civil society engagement with the GAP and to closely follow the Action Plan’s role in strengthening coordination among signatory agencies at global and country level and what this entails for national health systems and for communities and civil society.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Webinar 1: Monday 19 October 2020, 14.00-15.30 CEST<br>The GAP and civil society – civil society and the GAP</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">This webinar will focus on the history, the set-up and the objectives of the Global Action Plan as seen by the GAP agencies and civil society. We will discuss the first progress report, with a particular focus on the initial plan and current reality of how to involve, address and support civil society and communities. The panel will include Hendrik Schmitz and Isadora Quick (WHO, GAP Secretariat), Andy Seale (WHO, co-lead of GAP Community and Civil Society Accelerator Working Group) and civil society organizations working at a global and national level.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Webinar 2: Monday 26<sup>th</sup> October 2020, 14.00-15.00 CEST<br>The GAP and Sustainable Financing for Health: Business as usual?</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">This webinar will take a country-focus approach, looking critically at sustainable financing, as framed in the GAP and reflecting on reports and experiences from countries where in which the sustainable financing “accelerator” (thematic focus) of the GAP was piloted. As the agencies in the lead of these pilots are usual suspects (Global Fund, GAVI, World Bank / GFF), are the stories presented also mainly business as usual, just presented in a new way, or does the GAP make any difference, for the countries and for civil society? The panel will include Manjiri Bhawalkar (Global Fund), and civil society organizations (Wemos and COPASAH)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Webinar 3: Monday 2 November 2020, 14.00-15.00 CET<br>The GAP and Primary Health Care: The usual confusion?</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">This webinar will take a country-focus approach, looking critically at how Primary Health Care (PHC) is framed in the GAP in a technical way (as primary level care, basic packages of services) and how the political dimensions of Primary Health Care, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://g2h2.org/posts/aa40/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">in the sense of the Alma-Ata Declaration</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">, are left out (addressing determinants of health and issues of global justice, community and people as owners of the health system). The webinar will reflect on reports and experiences from countries where in which the PHC “accelerator” (thematic focus) of the GAP was piloted. The panel will include representatives from signatory agencies and civil society organizations (COPASAH, MMI and PHM).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Reference document</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Watch the GAP. A critical civil society perspective on the development, potential impact and implementation of the ‘Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well- being for All’ (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.medicusmundi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GAP-paper-July-2020.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">July 2020, PDF</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Zoom registration<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzjpaoOgQu6VRkTs-NVzwg</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><br>You only need to register once; please select which webinar(s) you would like to attend<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Co-organizers </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">“Watch the GAP” task group of the Kampala Initiative (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/watch-the-gap/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<br>Civil Society Advisory Group for the GAP, CSAG (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://csemonline.net/civil-society-advisory-group-for-the-gap/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<br>the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health, COPASAH (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.copasah.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Contacts </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Watch the GAP: Myria Koutsoumpa, Wemos (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:myria.koutsoumpa@wemos.nl" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">e-mail</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<br>CSAG: Loyce Pace, Global Health Council (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:pace@globalhealth.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">e-mail</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<br>COPASAH: Aminu Magashi Garba, Africa Health Budget Network (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:gamagashi@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">e-mail</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Webinar website <u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">The webinar series is hosted by the Kampala Initiative, as part of its webinar series “Challenging realities of aid” (<a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampalawebinars/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">website</span></a>). </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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