CDIR-Health in Totonicapán
The CDIR-Health of the department of Totonicapán has a presence in 4 municipalities, which are: Momostenango, San Cristóbal Totonicapán, Santa Lucía la Reforma and Totonicapán, the Network is made up of 15 advocates, of which 11 are women and 4 are men. In Totonicapán the CDIR–Health is shaped by midwives, obstetricians, users of the services of health, 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 Totonicapán
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, in addition, municipal networks develop replicas implementing Community schools for the Right to Health with the authorities and indigenous groups to bases of each defender.
Incidence
It is the process that is done at the end of a round of citizen monitoring and actions
that are carried out to position the issues, demands and proposals arising from the monitoring of the health services and the community work of advocates members to the CDIR – Health.
Alliances
Throughout the work the CDIR-Health Totonicapán has been, 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 and a working agreement with the Office of Human Rights.
Departmental assemblies
As a Network for the department of Totonicapán, is carried out in 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.
Training in K'iche'
The first School Citizens the Right to Health that was developed in
5 departments with the defenders the CDIR-Health, there is a need to translate the material in the language of K'iche’ to implement processes of formation and strengthening of the basis for the CDIR-Health. It should be noted that the defenders the CDIR-Health carried out the translation and recording of the material of Spanish-K'iche’, also agreed to transmit microprogramas in community radio for awareness and provide training to other communities.
The CDIR-Health through the School Citizen maintains formation processes standing between the defenders of each municipality through a hybrid model, in addition, municipal networks develop replicas implementing Community schools for the Right to Health with the authorities and indigenous groups to bases of each defender.
Citizen watch
The CDIR-Health department
Totonicapán performs processes of Citizen watch in 4 municipalities; in Momostenango, San Cristóbal Totonicapán, Totonicapán, and Santa Lucía la Reforma, and 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, float promotion of the right to health, the 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.
National assembly
As a Network for the department of Totonicapán 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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