Social Accountability in Ethiopia:Community Score Card Implementation to Improve Primary Health Care

On February 14, 2024 D4I hosted the first webinar in a series on localization in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL). The webinar, co-hosted by the USAID-funded NPI EXPAND project, highlighted the implementation of community score cards to improve primary health care in Ethiopia.
Localizing MERL helps ensure that local actors have the resources and capacity needed for equitable, evidence-informed decision making. Applications of this in MERL activities include local capacity strengthening, using a systems lens, engaging with diverse stakeholders, and implementing other good practices for locally led development. This webinar series will share tools and approaches for effective capacity action planning, monitoring sustainability including local actors’ roles in complex program systems, promoting local voices through social accountability methods, and more. 
The webinar provided an overview of the NPI EXPAND project’s social accountability work in Ethiopia and describde the community scorecard approach to improving primary health care. The webinar outlined the steps involved in the community scorecard approach, highlighted an example of its implementation by the local Ethiopian organization ILu Women and Children Integrated Development Association (IWCIDA), described the outcomes realized through its implementation, and discussed lessons learned.
Link to webinar page and slides: www.data4impac...

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Community Ownership is very vital thus checking if there are differenr types of programs to engage the communities.
If programs are people /needs centered, I think people will work towards achieving their needs.
Thanks
Edilson Yano from Papua New Guinea