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| Current Policy Work - Background |
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Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), one of the largest networks of voluntary agencies in the health sector is playing a critical role at both macro and micro levels. Its health advocacy efforts emerge from the grassroots with an understanding of their health and development problems as well as the strategies adopted to address them.
VHAI has successfully promoted the concept of broadening the horizons of health at national and international forums. VHAI advocates a more proactive role of NGOs in policy formulation, which is reflected in its own capacity-building initiatives. The organisation finds representation in international agencies like WHO, World Bank, International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)-Paris, Asian Development Bank, Deakin University, Australia, etc., and in national and government bodies like National AIDS Control Board (NACO), Task Force on Tobacco Control, Advisory Committee - National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), National Mentoring Group for ASHA (under National Rural Health Mission), National Nutrition Mission, Advisory Committee for National Policy for Children and the Common Review Mission (CRM) of NRHM.
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VHAI believes that the adoption of an appropriate public policy by the Government is not an end by itself because the major task of effective implementation of the policy is an equally important issue.
Advocacy groups have to take lead in monitoring the implemen-tation of the public policy closely, particularly in the initial years.
Our grassroots level projects play a very important role of providing us feedback on the effectiveness of the implementation process at the grassroots. The feedback is regularly conveyed to the authorities to enable them to fine-tune the mechanism of implementation. |
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The key strategy has been to avail expertise and experience of people associated with VHAI, State Chapters, ICDHI members comprising of eminent social scientists, and other distinguished health and development experts from various states of the country in identifying key health, gender and poverty related issues as well as issues related to children’s rights and their in-depth analysis. This exercise not only helped us in setting pragmatic goals but also in responding to these issues at both policy and grassroots levels. Another area of foremost concern has been to build upon the capacity of the state members and other associated and grassroots level organizations. |
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| Indo-EU dialogue on Government, Public and Private Partnership |
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