United Against HIV/AIDS? Politics Of Local Governance In HIV/AIDS Treatment In Lusikisiki, South Africa

Evensen, Jane Vogt; Stokke, Kristian

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“…They consider that health councils are opportunities for them to demonstrate their passion for politics. Evensen and Stokke (2010) and Campbell and Ballantyne (2004) describe a similar 'identification' mechanism in their cases in South Africa. Some health providers were formerly activists in the Treatment Action Campaign, a CSO founded in 1998 to campaign for access to treatment for AIDS.…”

Section: Contexts and Mechanisms Influencing Responsiveness Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…In some cases, providers value and accept CSOs as partners in service provision because they fill a capacity or knowledge gap. This partnership, then, offers opportunities for CSO advocacy, helping CSOs to put issues on the government agenda (G omez-Jauregui 2008; Evensen and Stokke 2010;Spicer 2011). At health facility level, health committees often have the official mandate to support health service delivery, including the monitoring of the quality of care.…”

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Health provider responsiveness to social accountability initiatives in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review

Lodenstein

Dieleman²,

Gerretsen³

et al. 2016

Health Policy Plan.

108

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Social accountability in the health sector has been promoted as a strategy to improve the quality and performance of health providers in low- and middle-income countries. Whether improvements occur, however, depends on the willingness and ability of health providers to respond to societal pressure for better care. This article uses a realist approach to review cases of collective citizen action and advocacy with the aim to identify key mechanisms of provider responsiveness. Purposeful searches for cases were combined with a systematic search in four databases. To be included in the review, the initiatives needed to describe at least one outcome at the level of frontline service provision. Some 37 social accountability initiatives in 15 countries met these criteria. Using a realist approach, retroductive analysis and triangulation of methods and sources were performed to construct Context-Mechanism-Outcome configurations that explain potential pathways to provider responsiveness. The findings suggest that health provider receptivity to citizens' demands for better health care is mediated by health providers' perceptions of the legitimacy of citizen groups and by the extent to which citizen groups provide personal and professional support to health providers. Some citizen groups activated political or formal bureaucratic accountability channels but the effect on provider responsiveness of such strategies was more mixed. Favourable contexts for health provider responsiveness comprise socio-political contexts in which providers self-identify as activists, health system contexts in which health providers depend on citizens' expertise and capacities, and health system contexts where providers have the self-perceived ability to change the system in which they operate. Rather than providing recipes for successful social accountability initiatives, the synthesis proposes a programme theory that can support reflections on the theories of change underpinning social accountability initiatives and interventions to improve the quality of primary health care in different settings.

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Section: Contexts and Mechanisms Influencing Responsiveness Outcomesmentioning

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Section: Contexts and Mechanisms Influencing Responsiveness Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health provider responsiveness to social accountability initiatives in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review

Lodenstein

Dieleman²,

Gerretsen³

et al. 2016

Health Policy Plan.

108

151

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“…Millstein's (2008) case study of urban governance in the housing sector in Cape Town demonstrates that the politics of local governance must be understood as a dynamic interplay between multi-scalar formal politics and place-based social relations and political activism. These are also key themes in Jones' (2009) research on the politics of HIV/AIDS treatment (see also Evensen & Stokke 2010). Focusing on struggles for the right to treatment, he demonstrates how institutions and practices of human rights may constitute an enabling space for rights-based struggles.…”

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Political geography in Norway: Current state and future prospects

Stokke

Sæther

2010

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The article provides a brief review of the current state and future prospects of political geography in Norway. Although political geography has been revitalised internationally, it has a relatively short history and weak institutional basis in Norway. There are, however, notable exceptions both within and outside the discipline. The main part of the article reviews recent research within political geography at the University of Olso, emphasising the shared focus on contextualised politics of representation, especially in the Global South. This thematic and geographical orientation gives Norwegian political geography a distinct character that also frames the prospects for further development and contribution to international political geography.

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“…Other types of data analysed (14% (n = 27) of the studies) included project plans, operational guidelines and data, e.g. a framework for health needs assessment (n = 7) [74][75][76][77][78][79][80], press releases and news stories (n = 5) [81][82][83][84][85], definitions produced by NGOs (used as operational constructs in the studies) (n = 4) [86][87][88][89][90], clinical guidelines and guidance on clinical guideline development (n = 4) [74,80,91,92], educational resources and information for clinicians (n = 3) [93][94][95], unspecified contributions of background information by NGO members (n = 3) [96][97][98], contracts (n = 3) [76,77,99], an interview transcript (n = 1) [82], and workshop proceedings (n = 1) [100]. The clinical data analysed in 5% of the studies were collected by NGOs via drug distribution and treatment monitoring systems and health monitoring information systems (patient records).…”

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Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research

Masefield

Megaw

Barlow

et al. 2020

Health Res Policy Sys

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Background: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) collect and generate vast amounts of potentially rich data, most of which are not used for research purposes. Secondary analysis of NGO data (their use and analysis in a study for which they were not originally collected) presents an important but largely unrealised opportunity to provide new research insights in critical areas, including the evaluation of health policy and programmes. Methods: A scoping review of the published literature was performed to identify the extent to which secondary analysis of NGO data has been used in health policy and systems research (HPSR). A tiered analytical approach provided a comprehensive overview and descriptive analyses of the studies that (1) used data produced or collected by or about NGOs; (2) performed secondary analysis of the NGO data (beyond the use of an NGO report as a supporting reference); and (3) analysed NGO-collected clinical data. Results: Of the 156 studies that performed secondary analysis of NGO-produced or collected data, 64% (n = 100) used NGO-produced reports (mostly to a limited extent, as a contextual reference or to critique NGO activities) and 8% (n = 13) analysed NGO-collected clinical data. Of these studies, 55% (n = 86) investigated service delivery research topics and 48% (n = 51) were undertaken in developing countries and 17% (n = 27) in both developing and developed countries. NGOs were authors or co-authors of 26% of the studies. NGO-collected clinical data enabled HPSR within marginalised groups (e.g. migrants, people in conflict-affected areas), albeit with some limitations such as inconsistent and missing data. Conclusion: We found evidence that NGO-collected and produced data are most commonly perceived as a source of supporting evidence for HPSR and not as primary source data. However, these data can facilitate research in under-researched marginalised groups and in contexts that are hard to reach by academics such as conflict-affected areas. NGO-academic collaboration could help address issues of NGO data quality to facilitate their more widespread use in research. The use of NGO data use could enable relevant and timely

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United Against HIV/AIDS? Politics Of Local Governance In HIV/AIDS Treatment In Lusikisiki, South Africa

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Cited by 4 publications

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Health provider responsiveness to social accountability initiatives in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review

Health provider responsiveness to social accountability initiatives in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review

Political geography in Norway: Current state and future prospects

Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research

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