20 Apr Stakeholders take stock of the OneImpact community-led monitoring of the TB response pilot in Cambodia
[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_separator type=”normal” thickness=”2″ up=”20″ down=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2970″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1587338951743{padding-bottom: 32px !important;}”][vc_column_text]A stakeholders team led by the National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) and KHANA – a Cambodia’s leading HIV and TB services NGO – with support from Stop TB Partnership and Dure Technologies, analyzed the results of the OneImpact Community-led Monitoring (CLM) Pilot project and discussed expansion plans.
The OneImpact platform is a digital alert system that can be used by people and communities affected by TB to track and trouble-shoot issues related to the availability and accessibility of quality TB services during the COVID-19 crisis. The technology, developed in partnership with community partners, has an integrated feedback loop mechanism to inform communities and TB programs of current gaps in order for them to rapidly respond and ensure the continuity of quality TB services for the people and communities affected by TB.
The OneImpact CLM intervention is transforming the national TB response in Cambodia so that it is rights-based, gender-transformative and people-centered. The intervention has built a better understanding of the links between human rights and TB so that duty bearers and right holders understand their respective responsibilities and rights. Using technology, OneImpact has helped develop an accountability mechanism to trigger action and enhance responsibility in the TB response.
The intervention relies on continuing engagement of affected communities to monitor the TB response. The data generated by communities strengthens the TB monitoring and evaluation system, improves community advocacy and informs and supports the evaluation of programmatic interventions so that barriers can be overcome, and people can be reached with essential TB services.
The event brought together various key players in the TB response to ensure ownership of the CLM intervention and to inform potential expansion plans under the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grant and USAID LON agreement. This was an opportunity for affected communities and patient support groups to discuss the barriers faced by communities, the CLM data and their experience of the OneImpact accountability platform.
CENAT and KHANA consolidated the results, lessons learnt and outcome of the evaluation to inform expansion plans. Stop TB Partnership will continue to provide Technical assistance to the CLM expansion plans in Cambodia, working in partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and USAID.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]