Using PACTS’ Capacity 2.0 to Deliver Community Participation in Health
PACTS in collaboration with Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency employed a mix of strategies and approaches to achieve outcome of the State Accountability for Quality improvement Project(SAQIP) which is to improve accountability and community participation in the public health system specifically by empowering community structures such as Ward Development Committees (WDC)to provide oversight needed to ensure delivery of quality services at Primary Health Centers.
Intervention by PACTS : To address the problem of lack of community participation in the running of the public health system in Gombe State.
Pact introduce and promoted the use of the Community Scorecard (CSC)as part of its suite of interventions under the State Accountability and Quality improvement Project (SAQIP).
The use of the community Scorecard introduced Community involvement, which in relation to the state’s public health system.
Found by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, SAQIP’s goals was to bulid the capacity of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) and its LGA structures to carry out theirs mandate to provide quality maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services in the state.
Under the SAQIP project,57 WDCs in 11 LGA in Gombe State, representing 50 percent of the total WDCs in the state, have been empowered to play a central role towards the delivery of high quality and sustainable primary health care interventions.
The WDCs have promoted active community participation in planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of PHC service.
