Transcript Christian agencies engaged with Primary Health Care

Christian agencies engaged
with Primary Health Care
Community Health Global Network
members are feeding in to the
World Health Organisation’s
thinking… Dec 07 and July 08
Nick Henwood www.chgn.org
• Presentation
– Christian agencies and PHC
– Themes
– Ideas
• Celebration
– A race through some CHGN project
snapshots
• Preparation
– PHC re-launch, May 2009
Themes
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Documentation
Be explicit about faith
Think upstream
The role of national churches
Thinking holistically
Staff training for excellence in
healthcare
Documentation
• Both successes
and failure
• FBOs need to win
the respect of
international
organisations like
WHO…
• More funding could
be channelled
through FBOs
• Faith motivates
FBO staff and
the communities
they serve
• FBOs (and
churches) can
hold in balance
both prayer and
modern medicine
Be explicit
about faith
Think upstream
• FBOs should tackle
the ‘big issues’
– Trade justice…
food prices…
– Violation of human
rights…
• God is concerned
with justice!
The role of
national churches
• Local churches understand their own
contexts
• Local Christians are motivated to work for
change
• Volunteerism…
• Churches should be able to demonstrate
accountability, and be channels for funds
• Change and
transformation, not
from projects, but from
love and mutual
respect…
• Mandate from Christ to
care for sick and
provide good news for
the poor…
• This mandate
motivates workers to
keep on serving the
marginalised.
Thinking
holistically
Staff training for excellence in
healthcare
• FBOs have responsibility
to train their own staff
well…
• Excellent opportunities (eg
Jamkhed) and training
materials (eg Talc)
• Aiming to be models of
excellence…
• Connecting health players
• Strengthening community-based
healthcare in resource-poor countries
Some CHGN members’ projects
• Self-sustaining models for
• UK - India
health care in rural India
linkages for
church-based
• Providing Teaching-aids At Low
care of
Cost (paper and CD-ROM
abandoned
based)
children in
• Grassroots solutions to ‘age-old
Mumbai
problems’… empowering
others, even at risk of losing
our own identity
Some CHGN members’ projects
• HIV testing
and
treatment for
HIV/AIDS
• Community based Primary
Health Care in Africa, Asia
and Latin America…
• Empowerment and
employment, with drug
rehabilitation in Iran
• Prevention of sexual abuse
through schools’ programmes
• Reviving healthcare in Sierra
Leone, 10 years after
disruption by war…
Some CHGN members’ projects
• Community Care Centres • Assistance to
for people living with HIV
displaced people
squatting on
• Training programme for
government land
Zambian clinical officers to
in North India
equip them to serve in
community hospitals
• Raising ARV treatment
literacy…
Some CHGN members’ projects
• Primary Health Care
• Working with agogs
outreach in Peru
(grandparents) to
address unhelpful
• Community participation for
traditional practices
rehabilitation of war
in Malawi
affected health centres in
DRG
• Hospital and community
based healthcare in NorthWest Pakistan
Some CHGN members’ projects
• Editing / publishing /
distributing health
journals
• Wholeness through supporting women health
volunteers - with an emphasis on prayer and Bible
teaching (North India)
• Aiming to demonstrate long-term commitment as
they support health programmes in east Africa…
capacity building for sustainability…
Engagement with
the big secular agencies…
• CCIH and sister agencies
(like CHGN) have diverse
membership…
• FBOs are increasingly being
recognised…
• 40-70% in sub-Saharan
Africa…
• So how can we
develop our skills in
representing our
membership to
multinational
agencies?
• …learn from each
other about wise
engagement with
USAID, WB, WHO…
FBO engagement in the run
up to re-launch of ‘PHC plus’
• 30 years on from Alma Ata (plus a
year to get organised…)
• FBOs as lead players in 1960s-70s
(and also today)… But what is the
“plus”?
• Christian players in DG’s office at
WHO
• Invitation to CHGN to co-sponsor a
consultation for PHC-related NGOs
(23-25 July)… What an opportunity!
PHC…
Health
for all…
• Member of family of agencies…
InterHealth, AFFIRM and CHGN
• Seeking to be a forum for faith-based and
community-based health programmes to
share good practice with each other
• Seeking to represent the network’s
members appropriately
• www.chgn.org
• Thank you from…
• Nick Henwood