来年のPeople’s Health Assemblyの紹介です。

Next year, July 2012, the Third People's Health Assembly will take place in Cape Town, South Africa!!

PHM members from around the world are encouraged to start pre-assembly mobilisation activities leading up to the PHA3 ensuring strong local and regional positions!

Please find below more information on the PHA3 to use for these pre-assembly mobilisation activities. For more information on the PHA3, feel free to contact us on PHA3@phmovement.org

Also, join the PHA3 Facebook group and invite health activists from all over the world to be part of this group to be updated on latest developments with regards to local mobilisation activities leading up to the PHA3, to share how your local PHM is preparing and to share ideas for mobilisation, testimonies and success stories!

We look forward to hear from you!

The PHA3 team


Third People’s Health Assembly – PHA3

WHAT, WHEN &WHERE

The People’s Health Assembly is a global event bringing together health activists from across the world to share experiences, analyse the global health situation, and develop civil society positions that promote health for all. It is an opportunity to reassess, redirect and re-inspire ourselves.

PHA3 is not just about developing our movement. It is also about impacting directly on the struggle for social justice: on health for all, on decent living conditions for all, on work in dignity for all, on equity and on environmental justice.

PHA takes place approximately every 5 years: PHA1 was held in Dhaka (Bangladesh, 2000), PHA2 in Cuenca (Ecuador, 2005). During the first PHA, the People’s Charter for Health was developed.

The Third People’s Health Assembly will take place in the second half of July 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. Exact dates to be confirmed.

OBJECTIVES
· To build and strengthen the People’s Health Movement.

o To generate a strategic dialogue about building our movement

o To strengthen links between countries and regions, across languages, between the global structures and the grassroots and with other key stakeholders and other social movements (health sector and other than the health sector).

o To build a stronger accountability between country, regional and global structures of the movement.

o To build on our identity and make us proud to be part of PHM and inspire us to redouble our efforts within PHM.

o To strengthen PHM activities and our membership base, particularly in the Africa region.

o To renew leadership, especially where it is inactive and/or grey haired.

o To build relationships with funding partners.

o To celebrate our strengths and accomplishments.

o To use pre-assembly activities and mobilisation to strengthen country and regional movement building.

Also:

· To reflect on past and future activities and on our progress and to plan and consolidate future programmes and activities of PHM to ensure these are reflective of felt needs and advance our flagship projects.
· To revise the People’s Charter for Health as needed [1]
· To reflect on the structure of PHM and on the processes our organisation engages in [2]

PROGRAMME

The programme will move from analysis to action, with sufficient time and processes that will facilitate refining our strategies, our future activities and movement building. There will be a balance between academic presentations and grassroots case studies and testimonies falling under the following broad themes:

· Social Determinants of Health (Building links with other movements)

A new Economic and Political Architecture (An alternative to the neoliberal hegemonic system): Focus on the political and economic influences that bring about social and health policies.
Building Sustainable Health Systems:Ensuring that the health system provides access to comprehensive, quality and equitable services to all while remaining responsive to users and financially sustainable.
Voices of Resistance and Action for Change: Includes stories of community members, of health workers and of others to reflect current health issues, challenges and success stories.
Keeping a Watch on Global Processes and Institutions: Presentations and discussions around policy-making and interventions by organisations that function at national, regional and international levels (e.g., Departments of Health, WHO, UNICEF, PEPFAR, Global Fund, etc).

In addition to plenary and parallel sessions, there will be workshops on the People’s Charter for Health and on developing future activities for PHM and for other joint activities with other civil society programs.

The Assembly will take place over five-days and will have approximately 1200 participants with over 60% of them coming from Africa.





Other events planned before, during and after PHA3:

Day 1-8 An IPHU with the cross cutting themes of Universal Health Coverage, Primary Health
Care and Social Determinants of Health.
Day 9: Evaluation and Conclusions of the IPHU; Meeting of PHM's Steering Council

Day 10-14: Attendance in PHA 3

Days 15-17: New Steering Council Meeting

PRE ASSEMBLY MOBILISATION

This will entail working in country and regional processes and events leading up to PHA3. The PHA provides an opportunity to build a strong health movement nationally and regionally bringing people together around common issues and struggles and defining ways to work and act together.

Pre-assembly mobilisation activities can be used: to organise nationally and regionally around such common issues; to present and gather stories and experiences using these as a base for learning and joint action; and to discuss and suggest amendments to the People’s Charter for Health. The main objectives of the pre-assembly mobilisation are to strengthen collaboration and encourage inspiring exchanges among PHM activists, as well as to increase the participation of grassroots voices at the main assembly. Pre- assembly activities are key to a bottom up process, organised and developed by the organisations interested, involved and willing to take it on.

Some questions to be addressed in pre-assembly mobilisation activities can be:

­ What issues and challenges unite us as a country and as a region?

­ What strategies can be developed to address the same?

­ Who are the rights holders and duty bearers that should be involved and how?

­ Are there networks beyond the health sector that we need to work closer with?

Some activities that can be carried out in the pre-assembly period are:

  • Organising workshops aimed at improving the People’s Charter for Health.
  • Gathering testimonies and case studies to reflect grassroots realities around specific themes.
  • Holding hearings or planning actions around PHM's Right to Health campaign.
  • Developing action plans and campaigns with a shared agenda to channel people’s action.
  • Preparing discussion papers.
  • Feeding into the regional mobilisation process.

National and regional assemblies or mobilisation activities can be linked to other events and social fora. Regional Organising Committees can be formed to drive mobilisation activities and assist with regional fundraising.

In general, pre-assembly mobilisation activities are to focus on strengthening local movement building, exchanging information and strategies leading to Health for All.

For more information, please contact us on PHA3@phmovement.org


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[1] There have been a number of position papers and statements since 2000. The PHA will serve as an opportunity to ensure the Charter reflects updates and the changed environment since then, congruent with these different existing position papers.

[2] This will be a participatory process leading to a revised/new governance structure in the lead up to PHA3 and to be ratified therein.
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