CHEPSAA Africa networking

meeting

Setting the scene & framing the day

Lucy Gilson & Nonhlanhla Nxumalo27 January 2015

www.hpsa-africa.org

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Welcome

• CHEPSAA organisational partners• CHEPSAA Emerging Leaders• Interested African & Asian

colleagues

Meeting Objectives

• Share and reflect on CHEPSAA’s experience and work

• Identify lessons for HPSR+A field-building

• Consider own next steps

Structure

• Tuesday: – overview of CHEPSAA’s activities

• Wednesday: – reflection on four key areas of

CHEPSAA experience, & ‘open space’ discussion

• Thursday:– field-building lessons and future

activities

CHEPSAA RATIONALE 2011

Why did we come together? (1)

• An existing African partnership, already doing & teaching in HPSA field

• A supportive set of European partners with varying, relevant networks

2003-2008:Equinet mentoring + small grants programme

2005-7 Developing HEPAA

2008-2010 HEPAA kick start

2011-15

CHEPSAA

Our history

Why did we come together? (2)

• HPSA (&R) recognised regionally & internationally as important

• In Africa, – weak supply: few bodies on the ground & few

training opportunities – weak demand: policy makers & managers

not research or evidence sensitive or dis-trustful; advocacy & CSO in field limited

• Need to build sustained capacity (supply and demand) within Africa

Towards New

Generations

CHEPSAA goal

To extend sustainable African capacity to produce and use high quality health policy and systems research, by harnessing synergies

among a Consortium of African and European universities with relevant

expertise.

By 2016, CHEPSAA will be

• The go to ‘place’ for HPSR+A in Africa

• High quality teaching materials, training programmes and people who use them

Education & teaching

Network-ing

Research

capacity

Expected African Capacityimpacts

Main intended African capacity impacts

• Education/Teaching– Strengthened educational capacity– Improved teaching of HPSR

• HPS Research– Strengthened capacity to conduct HPSR– Advancement of HPSR as a field

• Networking and GRIPP– Improved partnerships amongst and between partners– New / improved links with other networks – Improved relationships with key stakeholders– Innovative GRIPP strategies – Improved role of HPSR

European impacts

• Better understanding of the main capacity development needs, and approaches to meeting these in African academic organisations

• More opportunities for collaborative research with and between European & African partners

OWN EXPECTATIONS; UNDERPINNING PRINCIPLES

Ghana, May 2011

Expectations

CHEPSAA target audiences

• Research organisations– Universities – Other groups

• NGOs

• System decision & ‘policy makers’ = ‘national’ stewards – Facility level managers,

district managers, programme managers, regional/provincial managers, national managers & critical politicians• With responsibilities

within any of the system building blocks

Underpinning principles (1)

HPSR >> HPSA >> HPSR+A

Scope of HPSR+A

Health Policy

Content & Instruments

Actors, Power & Politics

Institutions, Interests & Ideas

Health Systems

Hardware:

structure, technology, resourcing

Software

Tangible: structures, processes, systems

Intangible: relationships, communication, values & norms

Policy Change

&

Health System Development

Global & National forces

CHEPSAA’s added value

• Putting together policy analysis & systems thinking to– understand the nature of health

policies and systems– support deeper investigation into

policy implementation gaps– provide a platform for action to

strengthen health systems

Underpinning principles (2)

Developing capacity as: interlocking sets of people,

organisations & networks/systems

Underpinning principles (3)

• Educational programmes & practice

• Sustainability through ideas & networks

Underpinning principles (4)

Emergent ‘design’:

Developing activities over time in ways that respond to & support

existing activities & relationships, and new opportunities

Unleashing Collective

Energy

CHEPSAA

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The CHEPSAA partners

University of Dar Es SalaamInstitute of Development Studies

University of the WitwatersrandCentre for Health Policy

University of GhanaSchool of Public Health, Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management

University of LeedsNuffield Centre for International Health and Development

University of Nigeria Enugu Health Policy Research Group & the Department of Health Administration and Management

London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineHealth Economics and Systems Analysis Group, Depart of Global Health & Dev.

Great Lakes University of KisumuTropical Institute of Community Health and Development

Karolinska InstitutetHealth Systems and Policy Group, Department of Public Health Sciences

University of Cape TownHealth Policy and Systems Programme, Health Economics Unit

Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteHealth Systems Research Group

University of the Western CapeSchool of Public Health