CDIR-Health in Quiche
The CDIR-Health of the department of Quiche has a presence in 5 municipalities, which are: San Pedro Jocopilas, San Bartolo, Jocotenango, Santa Maria Nebaj, San Juan Cotzal and Uspantán, the Network is made up of 18 defenders, of which 13 are women and 5 are men. In Quiché the CDIR–Health is made up by users of the health services, community leaders, and indigenous authorities.
The role of the community leader or community advocate
These are people who work on a voluntary basis and are part of the community, are the main actors of the process of citizen oversight of the health services.
Axes of work the CDIR-Health Quiche
Education and training
Citizen oversight is an exercise that requires a certain knowledge,
capabilities and management of certain tools and equipment, for which, both prior to the process of conducting surveillance, as in the continuous process, must equip themselves with knowledge and to build the capacity of those involved in the process.
The basic content in the training process:
- Legal framework of the Right to Health, and citizen participation.
- Prioritization and participatory planning.
- Public Policy
- Monitoring of public policies.
- Methodology of citizen monitoring of public policies.
- Training in the management of monitoring instruments.
- Impact on health and plan of incidence.
The CDIR-Health through the School Citizen maintains formation processes standing between the defenders of each municipality through a hybrid model.
Incidence
It is the process that is done at the end of a round of citizen oversight. They are actions that are carried out to position the problem,
demands and proposals arising from the monitoring of the health services and the community work of advocates members to the CDIR – Health.
Departmental assemblies
As a Network departmental Quiché, has been carried out departmental assemblies; this is a space where they converge municipal networks to address the issue of health, to review and update the progress of the work plan and to formulate new strategies and action plans.
Citizen watch
The CDIR-Health in the department of el Quiché
performs processes of Citizen watch in 5 municipalities: San Pedro Jocopilas, San Bartolomé Jocotenango, Santa Maria Nebaj, San Juan Cotzal and Uspantán, this process is applied in the three levels of health care. In the process of Citizen Oversight develop several activities to comply with the objective of monitoring; some of the activities that are carried out are: information tables, radio programs, and delivery of information to promote the work of the CDIR-Health.
Perform citizen oversight of the health services is a way of exercising our civic participation and to exercise our right to health.
Alliances
Throughout the work the CDIR-Health Quiche has done, they have been building
and weaving new strategic alliances to strengthen the work of citizen oversight, some alliances that were built were; with community radios, Council of Indigenous Authorities, Community Authorities, law Firm of Human Rights, Protection Unit, advocates and Human Rights defenders of Guatemala and a working agreement with the Office of Human Rights.
National assembly
As a Network departmental Quiché participates year-on-year in the national assembly to the CDIR-
Health, this is a space where they converge all the networks at the national level of the 5 departments, this is a meeting where the networks municipal and departmental exchange experiences to generate new meaningful learning and to reflect on the work done in the current year, in addition, it evaluates the work plan for the following year.
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