By Rita Dakura, GNA
Punyoro (U/E), Dec, 22, GNA - The Participatory Action for Rural Development Alternatives (PARDA), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has embarked on an educational campaign to sensitise some communities in the Upper East Region on how to access quality social services.
It is aimed at encouraging the communities to use a bottom up approach to improve access to quality health care, education, food and nutrition security and good governance.
The project funded by Open Society Initiation of West Africa (OSIWA), works to increase citizens’ access to quality Community –based Health Planning Service (CHPS) using social accountability mechanisms in three Districts and three Municipal Assemblies in the Upper East Region,including; Anateem and Kunkua communities in the Bolgatnaga Municipality, Baribari and Asikiri in the Bawku Municipality and Kpatia and Gbaani in the Talensi District.
Other communities include; Tarikom and Kopellanin in the Bawku West District, Punyoro and Pindaa in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality and Gan, Songe and Ngobare, In the Nabdam district.
Dr Michael Wombeogo, the Director of PARDA, speaking at one of the educational Durbars at Punyoro in the Kassena Nankana Municipality said the project would lead to the increase in citizens’ access to quality community based health services using social accountability mechanisms, increase community oversight committees (COC) and enhance Civic Society Organisations’ (CSO) capacity to use accountability mechanisms.
The two-year project started in September 2019 and is expected to achieve reduction in maternal and child morbidity, increase community participation in the health delivery for mothers and children and to improve CHPS management and accountability.
“This will make the community people to understand that all CHPS centres in the locality is for the community and therefore have to take part and be in-charge of all developmental projects that will provide good and quality health care delivery in the area’’, Dr Wumbeogo said.
According to him, the project formed a committee of 10 people to take charge of all the day to day management, maintenance and service delivery of the CHIPS facilities in the communities
Mr Lambert Dikumwine, the Kassena Nankana Municipal Health Director said the project would unite the people of the communities and encourage health workers at the CHPS centers to give off their best to improve the patronage of health care services.
He said the initiative would improve quality health care in the area and benefit children, aged and newly born babies in the area.
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