This report presents the findings of PRO-Health monitoring conducted by about 300 volunteer-monitors in 13 sites all over the country from April 2023 to February 2024. The monitoring covered 257 health units mostly visited twice and interviewed 794 health workers and 1,364 citizen-beneficiaries using three monitoring tools designed according to the multi-level monitoring approach of G-Watch. In consideration of the monitoring findings, the review of evidence and problem-solving sessions in all the sites, a set of PRO-Health reform agenda was crafted, which is also presented in this report.
Promoting Rights Organizing in Health (PRO-Health) is a health rights organizing initiative of G-Watch with Accountability Research Center (ARC), several local governments and civil society groups. PRO-Health aims to strengthen transparency, participation and accountability in public health governance by building coalitions and alliances among citizens, groups, communities and government allies around health rights, and by facilitating learning and problem-solving among accountability frontliners, rights defenders and allied government champions to come up with pro-people and bottom-up solutions to systemic barriers and hurdles to reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services.
Photos on the cover:
Left: Medicine storage in one of the health units monitored in Samar with no stock of medicines available. Right: Patients wait on the side of the road as there was no available waiting area in one of the health units in Puerto Princesa City. (Photos courtesy of PRO-Health volunteer-monitors)
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