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Recognizing the need to provide evidence-based information
to policy-makers and other stakeholders in terms of the nature and process of
health sector reforms, as well as for the assessment of various initiatives
undertaken as part of the reform process, the Bureau of Planning, Ministry of
Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, in collaboration with the
WHO India Country Office, has undertaken a review and documentation of health
sector reform initiatives under-way in India. Experiences gained in nine states
have been compiled in a document titled ‘Health Sector Reforms in India:
Experiences from Select States’.
The first national-level workshop held on this subject
(4-5 September, 2003) provided the participants, who included policy-makers
at the Centre and in states, representatives from bilateral and multilateral
agencies and other stakeholders, an opportunity to exchange experiences and
information on health system reforms under-way in various states. The meeting
emphasized the need for providing such forums also to policy-makers at the
state level in order to inform them of the experiences gained at that level
and disseminate information on successes and failures and lessons learned. In
pursuance of this proposal it was proposed that three regional workshops
should be organised. The first such workshop was
held in Delhi
on 9-10 August 2004.
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, in
collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Administrative
Staff College of India (ASCI), is now holding the second regional workshop in
Hyderabad on
14-15 February 2005. The meeting will have two objectives: first, it would
allow participants from the states engaged in health sector the reform
process to share their experiences, and second, it would attempt to document
the content and process of reform initiatives under-way in the states of
Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil-Nadu.
The workshop is expected to bring together policy-makers both
administrative and technical, as well as civil society representatives
from centre as well as concerned states.
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