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A Call for Letters of Intent: Health Equity Gauges
Antoinette Ntuli
2000-04-20

Proposals for an international meeting on equity in health are called for.

A Call for Letters of Intent: Health Equity GaugesBackground In November 1999 a group of technical experts and practitioners met in Chile with the aim of taking forward the research and policy agenda for monitoring equity in health. The vision emanating from the Chile meeting is the following: By the year 2015 every country should have an integrated system for monitoring health inequities that informs, monitors and evaluates health and other socio-economic policies. The systems should be responsive to the national or local contexts in terms of priority indicators to be monitored and strengthened by access to a common global fund of knowledge and technical expertise. As a next step, a meeting will be convened with the aim of establishing monitoring initiatives (or ‘health equity gauges’) in a number of countries. The current South African ‘Equity Gauge’ in South Africa serves as one example of such an equity monitoring initiative. The ‘Equity Gauge’ is a unique partnership between legislators, researchers and a non-profit entity who work together to monitor equity in health and health care in the new post-apartheid democracy (http://www.hst.org.za). It is expected that equity gauges in other settings will reflect local realities in terms of stakeholders who will be involved, monitoring mechanisms and objectives.The Health Systems Trust (HST), supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation, will host this international meeting in South Africa from the 17th to 20th August 2000. Meeting ObjectivesExchange ideas and experiences amongst equity monitoring initiatives; Strengthen participants’ expertise in monitoring equity;Lay the foundations for country monitoring activities via three working groups- technical, advocacy and policy; Identify rationale and logistics for longer-term collaboration between the national initiatives. Call for Letters of intent This is a call for countries/organisations interested in participating in this meeting to submit a letter of intent based upon the following criteria: a statement of the need for such an initiative; clear demonstration of commitment to redressing inequities; specification of the level of monitoring projects- national, regional or city; articulation of key stakeholders and the nature of their involvement (NGOs, policymakers, legislators, researchers, etc); delineation of what is being monitored (health status, health care, risk factors, socioeconomic determinants of health, etc.); description of how the monitoring will occur (data sources, data collection, stakeholder involvement, reporting mechanisms, communication with policymakers); identification of anticipated support activities that will be required by stakeholders to use information effectively to promote equity (workshops, site-visits, specifically targeted information) expected outcomes (what inequities will be redressed, key policy and programme targets, time frame); Letters of intent are limited to 2-3 pages and submitted by May 31, 2000. Strong priority will be given to letters of intent submitted by organisations from developing countries. An international steering committee will review the proposals and select those who will participate in the South Africa meeting. However, future collaboration amongst all who apply will be encouraged. For further information please contact Antoinette Ntuli, ant@healthlink.org.za Tel: 2731-307-2954 Proposals may be e-mailed to the above email address, or faxed to 2731-304-0775

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