Browsing by Author "Suchi Pande"

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    Community health workers as rights defenders: the Mitanin experience in India
    (Taylor & Francis: Development in Practice Volume 33, 2023 - Issue 8, 2023) Suchi Pande
    This Note focuses on two elements of the Mitanin pre-emptive learning strategy, the movement-building approach of a government run program to empower frontline community health workers , and the role of a hybrid agency in prioritising social mobilisation by these workers to improve healthcare delivery.
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    Learning to Sustain Change: Mitanin Community Health Workers Promote Public Accountability in India
    (2018) Samir Garg; Suchi Pande
    The Accountability Note- illustrates how Community Health Worker program (Mitanin) in Chattisgarh as service providers and community leaders has developed an evolving learning strategy by involving the State and civil society actors to sustain action on public accountability of health system and connect communities with government health care services. The document also shows that CHWs can simultaneously work as health care providers and build and sustain accountability. Besidses, it shows how the program has taken a form of movement-building approach to public health rather than just being a narrow targeted intervention.