Rural Communities’ Healthcare Governance Partnerships: a Lay Participant Perspective”
| dc.contributor.author | Damian, Respicius Shumbusho | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-03T15:37:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-03T15:37:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper analyzes the capability and influence of rural community actors in community-based healthcare governance partnerships, namely the Health Facility Governance Committees (HFGCs) using the Lay Participant perspective. Practical evidences are drawn from a mixed methods study conducted in Karagwe and Morogoro districts between May 2013 and March 2015. The analysis shows that all community actors, especially individual community members, community representatives, elected community leaders, informal community groups, and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as well as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have pertinent weaknesses that make them unable to contribute effectively towards enforcing accountability of public officials and health services providers. The main reason is that, the design and social context of rural communities make partnerships for empowerment partnerships for disempowerment. In conclusion, community-based healthcare governance partnerships cannot work best in the current context of Tanzanian rural communities. Therefore, there is a need for rational capacity building interventions aimed at empowering all the defined community actors and transformational redesign of the community healthcare governance systems. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA). CARTA is jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center and the University of the Witwatersrand and funded by the Wellcome Trust (UK) (Grant No: 087547/Z/08/Z), the Department for International Development (DfID) under the Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE), the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant No: B 8606), the Ford Foundation (Grant No: 1100-0399), Google.Org (Grant No: 191994), Sida (Grant No: 54100029) and MacArthur Foundation Grant No: 10-95915-000-INP. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 7. Damian, R.S. (2015), “Rural Communities’ Healthcare Governance Partnerships: a Lay Participant Perspective”, a Paper Presented during the 2nd Voice of Social Science International Conference to be held from 29 August to 1 September 2015 at Bank of Tanzania Conference Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5086 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Second Annual Conference of the Social Sciences (August 31 to September 1 2015) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Community-Based Accountability; Rural Communities; Community-Health Partnerships, Health Facility Commitees; Tanzania. | en_US |
| dc.title | Rural Communities’ Healthcare Governance Partnerships: a Lay Participant Perspective” | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | en_US |
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