Meetings

EQUINET Regional Meeting on the Equity Watch and equity monitoring, Cape Town April 26-28 2012

An Equity Watch is a means of monitoring progress on health equity by gathering, organizing, analysing, reporting and reviewing evidence on equity in health. The aim is to assess the status and trends in a range of priority areas of health equity and to check progress on measures that promote health equity against commitments and goals. Reports have now been produced in five countries - Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique and further work is under discussion in Tanzania and Malawi, available on the EQUINET website. We are also producing in 2012 a regional equity analysis covering the 16 countries in EQUINET. The work has been done in association with the ECSA Health Community and in dialogue with WHO and UNICEF. On April 26 to 28th 2012 EQUINET will hold a regional workshop in Cape Town South Africa that will include training on equity analysis; review of the country equity watch work and follow up country and district work; and review of the draft regional equity analysis 2012. We hope to support input to the dialogue on ongoing country work on planning, monitoring and research on health equity, including in relation to the regional resolutions and the MDGs. If you are interested in this work or meeting please contact us at admin@equinetafrica.org