Engaging Civil Society Organizations to Enhance the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Response Programs in Asia and the Pacific

Bhargava, Vinay

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“…Beyond equity, the importance of engaging communities to ensure the implementability of interventions during the pandemic has been noted in our programme and worldwide. 11 35 36 On the other hand, although our interventions prioritised the most underserved rural populations among the implementation sites ( tables 1 and 2 ), provision of social support to those most in need was irregular over time, depending on available resources and restricted by our limited supply chain. This made it difficult to ensure equitable access to opportunities to achieve the best possible health among the population served.…”

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“…The key role played by civil society during the COVID-19 pandemic, [7][8][9] as well as the experience of states partnering with civil society to achieve more effective and human rights-focused responses have been reported. [10][11][12] However, literature on the implementation, outcomes and insights of public-civil collaborative efforts to respond to the pandemic is still limited. This article aims to fill that knowledge gap by describing the experience of the CES-MOH partnership during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chiapas, in which a health equity promotion approach was used, 13 basing interventions on personal agency in health-related decisions and fair access to healthcare resources of the most underserved populations.…”

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A comprehensive and healthcare equity promoting response by a civil society–public partnership to COVID-19 in Chiapas, Mexico

Rodríguez

Aranda

Brun³

et al. 2023

BMJ Glob Health

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Following the first COVID-19 case in Chiapas, Mexico in March 2020, the non-governmental organisation Compañeros En Salud (CES) and the state’s Ministry of Health (MOH) decided to join forces to respond to the global pandemic. The collaboration was built over 8 years of partnership to bring healthcare to underserved populations in the Sierra Madre region. The response consisted of a comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 infection prevention and control programme, which included prevention through communication campaigns to combat misinformation and stigma related to COVID-19, contact tracing of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases and their contacts, outpatient and inpatient care for patients with respiratory symptoms, and CES–MOH collaboration on anti-COVID-19 immunisation campaigns. In this article, we describe these interventions and their principal outcomes, as well as reflect on notable pitfalls identified during the collaboration, and we suggest a series of recommendations to prevent and mitigate their occurrence. As with many cities and towns across the globe, the poor preparedness of the local health system for a pandemic and pandemic response led to the collapse of the medical supply chain, the saturation of public medical facilities and the exhaustion of healthcare personnel, which had to be overcome through adaptation, collaboration and innovation. For our programme in particular, the lack of a formal definition of roles and clear lines of communication between CES and the MOH; thoughtful planning, monitoring and evaluation and active engagement of the communities served in the design and implementation of health interventions affected the outcomes of our efforts.

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Section: Lessons Learnt and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 96%

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A comprehensive and healthcare equity promoting response by a civil society–public partnership to COVID-19 in Chiapas, Mexico

Rodríguez

Aranda

Brun³

et al. 2023

BMJ Glob Health

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“…Presently, it is also equally important to focus on local level decision-making strategy to create equitable development rather than only relying on the central state of this nation. In order to be good governance there should be inclusiveness, accountable and effective public institution (Bhargava, 2015), which is possible only through participation of the public in decision-making, processes by adopting the strategy of community consensus. Participatory decision-making in community is an advanced and ultimate form of democracy.…”

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The goal of this study is to look at the relationship between peers' influence and parents' influence on the saving behavior of Nepalese youth and the impact of peers' influence and parents' influence on the saving behavior of Nepalese youth. The research has used primary sources of data. A well-structured questionnaire was designed to collect data from 250 respondents. The convenience sampling technique was used to select a sample for the study. Moreover, Cronbach's Alpha was assessed to test reliability. The correlational and casual research designs were used. The findings revealed that there was a positive and significant relationship between peers' influence and parents' influence on the saving behavior of Nepalese youth and peers' influence and parents' influence have a significant impact on the saving behavior of Nepalese youth. This study is useful for those saving behavior seekers as parents' influence is a major factor in many facets of life in Nepalese communities. Children are taught to respect their parents and they have the power and obligation. Since parents have such a big impact on young people, they should seize the chance to let their kids watch them practice good saving habits as a way of preparing them for life in the adult world.

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“…In many countries, government sponsored COVID-19 response programs faced significant shortfalls in dealing with the challenges posed by the rapidly changing situation [ 3 , 4 ]. Gaps in providing essential resources and treating infected patients were further exacerbated in LMICs, where the high burden of cases put increasing pressure on already overstrained health systems [ 5 ]. For instance, Mexico, which had low rates of COVID-19 testing and a high prevalence of non-communicable diseases, had one of the highest excess mortality rates recorded worldwide [ 1 , 6 , 7 ].…”

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“…Due to the unprecedented speed and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, which placed large demands on government institutions’ capacity, and especially on local government institutions that are comparatively weak in the global south, many countries relied on civil society organizations (CSOs) to assist in implementing and monitoring COVID-19 response and recovery programs [ 5 ]. Defined as non-profit, voluntary groups organized at the local, national, or international level, CSOs encompass a wide array of organizations including community groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), labor unions, social movements, as well as faith-based organizations [ 8 ].…”

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The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the COVID-19 response across the Global South: A multinational, qualitative study

Levine,

Park,

Adhikari

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Despite receiving less attention than high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experienced more than 85% of global excess deaths during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the unprecedented speed and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, which placed large demands on government capacity, many LMICs relied on civil society organizations (CSOs) to assist in implementing COVID-19 response programs. Yet few studies have examined the critical role CSOs played in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in low resource settings. This study explored the CSO response to COVID-19 in five of the most heavily impacted LMICs in the Global South. Interviews were conducted from May to August 2021 with a purposive sample of CSO key informants within each of the five countries. A total of 52 CSOs were selected from which 53 key informants were interviewed either via Zoom or by phone. Interviews were coded and analyzed using NVivo or MAXQDA2020. Out of the 52 CSOs selected, 24 were national organizations, 8 were regional, and 20 were local. CSOs fell into six categories: community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations, unions/professional organizations, campaigns/social movements, research organizations/think tanks, and networks/coalitions. CSOs across all five countries adapted their missions, stretched their resources, and performed a wide range of activities that fit into five programmatic areas: food security and livelihood support, public health and medical care, cash transfer programs, risk communication and community education, and needs assessment. This qualitative analysis demonstrates the critical role CSOs played in supplementing government emergency aid response by delivering necessary resources and supporting highly vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the primary challenges they faced in doing so. Given the generally weak state of public capacity in the LMICs studied, this role was vital to responding to the pandemic.

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Engaging Civil Society Organizations to Enhance the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Response Programs in Asia and the Pacific

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A comprehensive and healthcare equity promoting response by a civil society–public partnership to COVID-19 in Chiapas, Mexico

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