Bernd Appelt South Africa Welcome This is the 1st regional conference of the sector network health and social protection Africa MENA and LAC We are meeting to discuss as far as I am concerned the most important and most exciting topic in the present debate of the future of dev ID: 708042
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The Sector Network
Where do we stand ?
Bernd
Appelt
| South AfricaSlide2
Welcome
This is the 1st regional conference of the sector network health and social protection Africa, MENA and LAC
We are meeting to discuss as far as I am concerned the most important and most exciting topic in the present debate of the future of development cooperation Quality of Growth – amongst all the fanfares celebrating economic growth of the last decades it is often forgotten that the lives of ordinary people are not changing. On the contrary inequalities and inequities are increasing between states and within societies. The Green Party in Germany brought it down to a very easy and straight forward phrase – YOU CAN‘T EAT GDP.
We as technical experts in health and social protection measure the inequalities and inequities on a daily basis – we have all the information at our finger tips. We know technically what needs to be done to address them – but often we fail to communicate our knowledge and insight to influence the political-economical agenda. Investments in health, social protection and education are often seen as charity and not as investments into the future and the portfolio is often seen to narrowly as treating the diseased, helping the poor and teaching basic skills. Slide3
I hope that this conference will contribute to the ongoing debate how to measure progress of society. The most advanced society in this regards is the tiny, small Buddhist mountain kingdom of Bhutan which uses neither economic nor social development indicators to measure societal progress but HAPPINESS. If we are to choose between growth in GDP and growth in happiness - I think the result will be obvious.
This a regional conference bringing together GIZ colleagues and partners from …. It needs to be emphasized that this is not a technical conference were you will be loaded with lectures but were networking, joined learning and exchange shall be at the centre stage.
We have looked at the evaluation forms and comments from our last meeting in
Jo‘burg where in Feb 2012 the topic was -Optimizing Capacity Development Results in Health and Social Protection by Combining our Instruments - and hope that we have taken some lessons from there. I assume you have read the programme and Jost Wagner will therefore take you through the programme focusing a little more on explaining the methodology how this shall be achieved.Slide4
Evaluation of SN
assembly
in Johannesburg 2012
Overall satisfactionSlide5Slide6
Very tight
programme
, almost no time to reflect in between
Participants need to be reminded to speak clear/ slowly and not using abbreviations
For next meeting a translator is needed for francophone colleagues
Fieldtrip would be good and time for spontaneous, bilateral meetingsSlide7
Over to you
JostSlide8
29
projects
More than 200 members working in 20 countries from
all staff categories of GIZ 3 active
working groups Quality Management in Health - Irene Omogi & Sabine
Ablefoni
Linking SRHR and HIV -
Ramona Wong-
Grünwald
& Kristina
Kloss
Private Sector Engagement in Health and Social Protection -
Holger
Till
3 working groups closed
Business Development and Innovation –
completed its task – analysis and report available
Human Rights in Health and Social Protection -
closed due to the lack of active members
SwAps
and Health systems -
closed, due to lack of active members
1 working group wants to reconstitute itself during this conference
Social Health Protection and Health Financing -
Kai
Strähler
-Pohl
Communication
within the SN - from a consultant driven process to virtual exchange platforms of Community of PractitionersSlide9
The new Virtual Community of Practice on Global Campus 21
So far unfortunately not yet
functinal
.We are planning to inaugurate the CoP with a webinar on HCD measures in the health and social protection sector in July this year - Ms BlumenthalSlide10
Steering Group 2013- 2014Slide11
Guidelines for Sector
Networks
Following the audit of the expenditure on Sector Networks the Office of the Federal Accountant General (Bundesrechnungshof- BRH) in 2012/13 the guidelines needed to be revised to address the following issues
To ensure that the results of sector networks contribute to an improvement in quality of our bilateral projects in partner countries To establish binding annual upper cost limit for each SNTo improve the financial management and monitoring of SNs including expenses on WG and conferences Slide12
Looking
forward to
To a successful regional conference
with a challenging topic and programme which guides the future direction of our health and social protection portfolio Further strengthening the network to foster exchange and collaboration between members of the network through an appropriate mix of real and virtual exchange forums and newsletters
Documentation of success stories and impacts of networks on the quality of our ongoing work and our business developments
Expand the
cooperation
with the Sector Network
HeSPAEE
and other Sector Networks – through WG exchanges, the joint newsletter CONNECT and the new
CoP
on global campus 21 and …Slide13
Bernd.appelt@giz.de
THANK YOU!