{"id":43551,"date":"2018-11-28T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=43551"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:45:39","slug":"global-health-disruptors-the-rise-of-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/11\/28\/global-health-disruptors-the-rise-of-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Global health disruptors: The rise of civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Civil society organisations have had profound influence on global governance, say <b><i>Nanoot Mathurapote and Weerasak Putthasri<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The disruption and challenges caused by neoliberal globalisation and the inability of global and national governing bodies to respond effectively has led to the emergence of new players, particularly civil society organisations. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These groups have caused a disruption in global health governance by advocating for change in many areas of development, including poverty reduction, gender equality, and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978 and the Health for All Strategy in 1981 enabled civil society organisations to work side by side with health professionals. This opportunity to have a key part in global health governance was apparent after the emergence and spread of HIV\/AIDS in the 1980s when networks of people with HIV and civil society organisations formed advocacy groups to campaign on human rights issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The success of AIDs advocacy groups in raising awareness, challenging attitudes, and triggering change showed the power that civil society can have on the global health agenda. Civil society organisations play a vital role in agenda setting, advocacy, brokering knowledge, mobilising resources, implementing, monitoring and evaluating policy, and\u2014importantly\u2014enabling the voices of marginalised communities to be heard. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The progress made on drug prices and treatment access, tobacco control, promotion of breastfeeding, and control of infant formula companies all reflect the strong will and capacity of civil society organisations. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Their bargaining power seems to have increased in all platforms of governance\u2014that is, global health governance, global governance for health, and governance for global health. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civil society organisations have shaped the governance of global health in three ways. Firstly, they showed the credibility of a new model of governance where they work in partnership with governments and other sectors in terms of decision making. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, for example, are widely recognised as having civil society organisations as their constituents. Notably, we need more evidence to confirm their equal role and power in influencing decision making. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nationally, Brazil established a health council in 1988 that has brought civil society organisations, service providers, and the government together to discuss health policies at national, state, and municipal levels. Thailand has had health assemblies where civil society organisations, academics, and government meet to discuss health in all public policies since 2008. Iran followed a similar model in 2017. These organisations have been successful at gaining trust and credibility from international organisations and governments after decades of successful engagement. This has helped them to contribute effectively to a model of multisectoral governance, collaboration, and action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secondly, the engagement and advocacy of civil society organisations has helped to scale up global health issues into global political issues. We must give credit to alliances such as the Framework Convention Alliance, which advocated for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to be included in the UN sustainable development goals. Credit also goes to the NCD alliance, which advocated for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases to be agreed in the World Health Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly. This is important because when global health issues are incorporated into broader global issues, the heads of governments are more obliged to take heed of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, civil society organisations have helped move global health issues on from decision making platforms to implementation, and vice versa. The International Baby Food Action Network has provided assistance to the World Health Organization and its member states in bridging implementation gaps and monitoring the International Code on the Marketing of Breast milk Substitutes, which was adopted at World Health Assembly in 1981. On the other hand, civil society organisations in public-private partnerships or alliances, such as the Global Health Workforce Alliance, Gavi, and the Global Fund, bring feedback from communities and their experiences of implementing policies\/programmes to improve efficiency of the implementation. [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the era of the sustainable development goals, where health targets are distributed across all broader goals and where multiple determinants of health are considered, the role of civil society organisations, globally and nationally, is crucial. But they can only be effective in the right circumstances. We need the right environment\u2014governance mechanisms, platforms, laws, and regulations\u2014to enable these organisations to use their full capacity in solving global health problems, together with governments and the private sector. Civil society organisations also require adequate managerial, technical, and soft skills. Despite the influential and disruptive force that these organisations have been in global health, they need the alignment of governance platforms to successfully achieve the sustainable development goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/11\/nanoot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43554\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/11\/nanoot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>Nanoot Mathurapote<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a senior staff member at Thailand\u2019s National Health Commission Office. She has taken part in organising the National Health Assembly since 2008.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><b><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/11\/weerasak2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43553\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/11\/weerasak2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/11\/weerasak2.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/11\/weerasak2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>Weerasak Putthasri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a deputy secretary general of the National Health Commission, Thailand. He was a senior adviser at the Department of Health Workforce, WHO\/HQ and a senior researcher of the International Health Policy Programme for Health Policy and Systems Research.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Competing interests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: None declared.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lowensen<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2003<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Civil society influence on global health policy. Civil Society Initiative World Health Organization and Training and Research Support Center Zimbabwe. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarsc.org\/WHOCSI\/globalhealth\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.tarsc.org\/WHOCSI\/globalhealth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">K<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civil society organizations and the functions of global health governance: what role within intergovernmental organizations?<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glob Health Gov<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2010<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:suppl <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=27274776&amp;dopt=Abstract\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PubMed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Storeng<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">KT<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">de Bengy Puyvall\u00e9e<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civil society participation in global public private partnerships for health<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health Policy Plan<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">33<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">928<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">36<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=30165606&amp;dopt=Abstract\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> PubMed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">G\u00f3mez<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EJ<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civil society in global health policymaking: a critical review<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global Health<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">14<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">73<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=30045738&amp;dopt=Abstract\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> PubMed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kickbusch<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Szabo<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new governance space for health<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glob Health Action<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">23507<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=24560259&amp;dopt=Abstract\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> PubMed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil society organisations have had profound influence on global governance, say Nanoot Mathurapote and Weerasak Putthasri [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/11\/28\/global-health-disruptors-the-rise-of-civil-society\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,18904],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-health","category-global-health-disruptors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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