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MEDiCAM’s Involvement in the Health Sector

MEDiCAM’s Involvement in the Health Sector

Presented by Mr. Sovanndara Ou

Health Information Officer,

MEDiCAM, CAMBODIA

MEDiCAM and Its mandatesMEDiCAM and Its mandates

• What’s MEDiCAM?• Background• Mandates:

– Information Sharing

– Representing the voice of NGOs in Cambodia’s health sector

– Facilitating advocacy

– Capacity building

Representing and Advocacy : Bridges to Policy makers

Representing and Advocacy : Bridges to Policy makers

MEDiCAM Bridges between Implementers and Policy Makers

At National Level

At MOH MoH Level

18 TWGs18 TWGs GDCCGDCCCDCFCDCF

HPHP CCC GFATMCCC GFATM

Sub TWGHsSub TWGHs

MEDiCAM Regional Meetings with CBOs/NGOs

MEDiCAM Regional Meetings with CBOs/NGOs

Pro TWGHsPro TWGHs

TWGHTWGH Other WGsOther WGs

At ProvincialLevel

The Function of Technical Working Group for Health

The Function of Technical Working Group for Health

The major functions of the TWGH are to:

• Provide a forum for sharing information between key stakeholders

• Advise the MoH on strategic and policy issues

• Provide a monitoring overview of sector performance

• Facilitate intra-sector and inter-sector harmonization and alignment

How MEDiCAM representative represents the voice of CSOs?How MEDiCAM representative represents the voice of CSOs?

• Regularly engage with both the TWGH, its secretariat and other sub working groups or task force (be at the table with them)

• This high level representation is represented by MEDiCAM’s Executive Director or a MEDiCAM’s board member who serves as an alternate member to this working group and its secretariat. This is to ensure continuity and regularity of engagement with policy makers.

• The ability of the representative to articulate and convey NGOs’ inputs during the strategic or policy debate for health sector development is very crucial to effectively influence on Health Strategic Direction or Health Strategic Plan or Health Policy

How MEDiCAM representative communicate with its constituency?

How MEDiCAM representative communicate with its constituency?

• MEDiCAM organizes its MEDiCAM Membership Monthly Meeting on every third Friday of the month to collect and share information with its NGO members. The Forum is known as 4Ms, aiming at sharing information from health NGOs and updating from MEDiCAM’s representatives on health sector development agenda. This sometimes brings a lot of debate on strategic issue of the health system, the result of which can be consolidated and brought to the TWGH for further debate with policy makers by the representative.

MEDiCAM Position PaperMEDiCAM Position Paper

• Develop based on inputs from regional meetings with NGOs, especially grassroots NGOs

• Key issues in the Health Sector were brought up and listed during the Annual General Meeting of all MEDiCAM members.

• After long and active debate, NGOs voted for the priority issues that need to be put into the paper.

• The Executive Director makes the first draft, the Steering Committee provide comments, then the draft paper is presented at the 4Ms to have full consultation with health NGOs before it will be jointly printed with NGO Forum and CCC as the NGO statement to the CDCF.

• At the MoH, the Paper is presented at the JAPR and this year it is being used as part of the references for the development of HSP 2008-15

Some Examples of Successful Policy Development in 2006 that MEDiCAM has

influenced

Some Examples of Successful Policy Development in 2006 that MEDiCAM has

influenced

• Newly-revised CPA guidelines• CBHI guidelines being put for implementation• Framework for implementing and monitoring Equity Fund• Revised Module 7 of MPA Training package• Midterm review process of HSP (Contracting, Swim

review, midwifery review)• National Strategy for Child Survival• National Strategy for RH• Roadmap to reducing Maternal mortality• Development of the National Nutrition Strategic Plan

2008-15• Assessment of HIS by using HMN tools• JAPR: Identification of Health Priorities for Year 07-08

NGOs-RHPWGNGOs-RHPWG

• RHPWG Background• 29 policy bottlenecks in RH• Male Involvement was selected as the top

priority• Policy gap analysis• Development fact sheets (in-country and out-

country best practices)• Building support and stakeholders meeting• Round table discussion• Development of Male Involvement Guidance and

it has now been used to integrate into the National RH policy and strategy

NGO-CSWGNGO-CSWG

• A member of CSMC

• NGO-CSWG consolidated comments for the development of the National Core Strategy for Child Survival

• Regular representation at the CSMC

• Regular monthly meeting of the NGO-CSWG

Challenges and recommendationsChallenges and recommendations

• Strengthen the capacity of CSOs in collecting and collating evidence-based information

• Improve the capacity of CSO representatives to effectively influence policy

• Enhance enabling factors• Donors should continue to create environment and

structure in place for a government to respect and encourage the active participation of NGOs or CSOs. Without this, any government will give little value for CSOs’ roles (GF-CCM could be the best example for active CSO involvement to promote check and balance for good governance)

Thank you for your attention