"By promoting bottom-up approaches for the inclusion of community voices in programme design, the reality of how communities engage with their structures was identified." Participatory research methods promote collaborations between researchers and communities to collectively overcome implementation challenges for sustainable social change.
Published on 3 February 2021
Understanding and addressing exclusion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
This session is designed to meet the needs of health and social development advisers and those from the wider health network and from other cadres with an interest in health, equity and justice.
Why this session now?
The impacts of COVID-19 have been harshest for existing marginalized and excluded groups; although new vulnerabilities have also emerged, and drivers of exclusion have intensified. The impact of COVID-19 on health seeking experiences, opportunities and outcomes is wide reaching with implications for models and understanding of Leaving No One Behind and Universal Health Coverage. To reach the Sustainable Development Goals, policy makers and funding agencies need to consider and confront a number of issues to be discussed in this session, including: