The organizations leading the CTAP work on the ground pivoted to create inclusive platforms for citizens to be informed and heard at the grassroots level, build coalitions with other CSOs to have greater collective impact, and call on governments for change through advocacy, and increasingly, collaboration to design and implement better policies going forward.
As an organization, we are rooted in supporting people as they test and learn from interventions and strategies. Turning that mirror onto
ourselves, here’s what we learned this year and how we will embed those lessons into our future work at Global Integrity.
The COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP) aims to increase the use of evidence to improve governments’ response to COVID-19 and promote multi stakeholder collaboration to strengthen health systems and improve service delivery.
This note focuses on national and local level advocacy strategies and presents several cases where civil society and grassroots organizations have effectively advocated for concrete government responses.
Across Africa, leaders who design and implement policies have been working with international and regional organizations to help them address health sector challenges during COVID-19 response. As a result, many health sector decisions are shaped by discussions that take place in global and regional spaces, such as the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and the African Union (AU). Common tools and agendas are one way to tackle complex problems brought by the pandemic, with a caveat for observed variance between different country contexts.
Systems thinking is a phrase development practitioners and funders hear often, but isn’t always aligned with the day to day experiences of local actors. It does not have to be that way.
Systems thinking reveals multiple reasons for a problem and multiple solutions. We believe that this approach that can help uncover structural factors underlying a problem.
Global Integrity came to this project to learn about the value and limitations of applying a participatory systems thinking approach (PSTA) that could contribute to better health outcomes, by sparking small, and incremental changes in the system.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Integrity launched a health systems strengthening project in collaboration with the African Health Innovation Centre (AHIC) and local partners to leverage participatory systems thinking approaches (PSTA) as a method to address various local health challenges. In Kenya, Global Integrity partnered with the…