CSO workshop in Uganda

Posted on 14 December 2009

A civil society capacity development workshop, on the theme of 'Increasing transparency and accountability in medicines procurement and supply management', took place in Uganda 26-30 April 2009. This was the second workshop in a two-year programme for strengthening the capacity of civil society to enable it to play its role in the MeTA partnership effectively.

The objectives of the workshop were to enable participants to:

• Feel more prepared and comfortable to engage with national policy processes, including the multi-stakeholder working groups envisaged by MeTA;
• Acquire specific knowledge on issues related to access to medicines, in particular transparency, accountability and efficiency issues acquire skills to promote greater transparency and accountability at national, district and community levels;
• Strengthen networking amongst themselves, and
• Develop ideas on campaigns and advocacy on medicines issues.

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