National Dialogue on Health Financing Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Consultation
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Health is one of our key focus areas at the Youth Cafe. We joined other member organizations and individuals for the National Dialogue on Health Financing – Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Consultation which commenced on the 26th and ended on the 27th of April 2023 held at the Mercure Hotel.
The National dialogue was organized by HENNET in partnership with KANCO, NEPHAK, Stop TB Partnership Kenya, and WACI Health with support from the Global Fund providing an opportunity for civil society to assess and review the health financing strategies in the Kenya Health Financing Strategy, jointly assess progress, identify challenges, and build consensus on health financing reform priorities or actions that are technically viable, politically feasible and will accelerate progress towards sustainable and effective domestic financing for health in Kenya.
The group and panel discussions, led by the CSOs focused on developing a position paper on the specific action plans and timelines for health financing reform priorities and discussing the M&E mechanisms for implementation.
A presentation of the draft position paper was presented and a technical group was appointed to work on and in the paper. This was in preparation for the ALM dialogue that will be happening on 27th-29th June 2023 at safari park hotel.
HENNET, Amref Health Africa, Stop TB Partnership, KANCO, WACI Health, NEPHAK
Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) And Change The Game Academy (CTGA) Module II Training
The Youth Café team joined other organizations for a Five-days training by Change the Game Academy in partnership with KCDF on Advocacy, policy-making, and support mobilization. The training commenced on the 24th of April 2023. The main objective of the training is to build the participants’ capacity for lobbying and Advocacy. The training was well executed by insightful trainers who shared their knowledge and expertise. To start off, we covered the problem tree analysis and the support tree analysis.
We also covered; Support mobilization tactics, the principles of Mobilizing Support (MS), the MS cycle, stakeholder analysis, beneficiary participation and legitimacy, Mobilizing allies, Interviewing claim-making beneficiaries, understanding policy and decision-making processes, Analysis of Decision implementation, Writing a complaint letter and Preparation of an MS action plan. The training was informative, interactive and involved engagement in some practical activities. We got the opportunity to network with other like-minded organizations for future partnerships.