Primary Healthcare France works to improve demand and accountability for maternal and child health services

The Primary Healthcare France programme is working with selected civil society organisations (CSOs) and community based organisations (CBOs) to strengthen community demand for, and use of, high-quality maternal and child health (MCH) services, and to support communities to constructively engage the health system to bolster accountability.

This support focuses on documenting lessons learned and best practices of successful civil society initiatives that are addressing demand and accountability for improved MCH services. This learning will be shared, scaled up or replicated in other districts.

The Primary Healthcare France programme approach is to:

• Make use of innovative initiatives to strengthen demand and accountability as well as sharing of evidence about what works and what can be scaled up at the provincial and national level
• Improve networking and collaboration among CSOs to increase the impact of their work and facilitate joint learning
• Develop stronger partnerships and joint problem-solving between CSOs, communities and the government
• Improve the use of communications and media to raise health awareness in communities and to ensure that citizens have access to the information they need to make the best use of the health system and hold it to account