ABI Health Cluster Members

Mercy Fabros – WomanHealth PhilsEdel Hernandez – Medical Action GroupCecile Joya – Medical Action GroupMiks Padilla – AnthroWatchJill Roque – PSLINKCecile Bilbao – IPHM

1. CONTEXT - Election year - Crisis - Increasing disparity between rich and poor - Maternal mortality (162 deaths) - Child mortality (under-five)

Health Cluster Message for 2010

Cluster priority areas / budget items

• Primary Health Care• Water and sanitation facilities • Strengthening of Health Information Systems • Personnel services (Health human resource)• * NARS program • Improve TB surveillance and monitoring

Proposed Responses/Campaign strategy:

= commodities, human resource, upgrading of health facilities and presence of facilities esp. for outlier communities e.g. bodies of water

= critiquing cost effectiveness vis-à-vis well-being health outcome .

= Respond the increasing demand for services => strengthen primary health care => health governance (increased community

participation)

• “I TOLD YOU SO” => Glo- cut across cases of (i) vetoed and (ii)

unreleased budget initiative • “WATCH OUT! => whoever is on top

• “HUWAG MANGHINAYANG: Spend for the Health of Filipinos”

Campaign strategy

Notes of Indigenous Peoples Concerns

• Push for census of IPs• Look into IP Health Governance • Ensuring access of IPs to primary health

services (e.g. catchment areas, mobile clinics etc)

2009 Budget Tracking

• What to track?- Personnel Services (peopleware) - Family Planning (NFP) - Upgrading of health facilities

(hardware)

Identified Areas• Research areas - Reform sa Local Government Code - Reform sa GAA - Insertion of budget line Magna Carta Benefits health

workers in DOH budget - Gender Responsiveness of budget items; Use NEDA’s

harmonization of GAD mainstreaming - NCIP

Suggestions for Capacity-buildings

• Capacity-building on tracking and • Popularization of ABI’s advocacies (tracking)