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title: "Good Governance in the Health Sector"
date: '13-29 December 2021'
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## Column 1 {data-width=650, .tabset}


### Overview 

About this course 


**Good Governance in Health Sector** short course is designed for public 
health professionals developed by the Centre for Professional Skills 
Development in Public Health (CPSD) at [BRAC James P Grant School of Public 
Health](https://bracjpgsph.org/), BRAC University in collaboration with [Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW)](https://bangladeshhealthwatch.org/). 
The course focuses on ‘Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC)’. It introduces participants to basic principles of governance, good governance such as responsiveness, accountability, and transparency. 


Who is this course for

This course is for: health programme planners and managers of Government, 
NGO/INGO and private sector, University faculty (particularly public health), 
other professionals in the health sector, and journalists.


Outline of the course

This course is divided into five themes and organized as follows:


***Theme-1: Overview of Governance*** - introduces the basic principles of governance, good governance, inter-sectoral collaboration such as GO-NGO, Public-Private collaboration. 


***Theme-2: Overview of Health Governance*** - introduces the health system governance framework, health governance from a health ministry perspective, importance of governance in health service delivery, current state of collaboration and coordination and coordination and citizen engagement (CE) or third-party engagement in quality control in service delivery. It also focuses on application of governance framework in Bangladesh in COVID-19 response. 


Then, ***Theme-3: Health Governance Standards & Practices*** - it explores collaborative governance, national integrity Strategy (NIS), right to information (RTI), and grievance redress strategy (GRS). 


Next, ***Theme-4: Health Governance: Ground Realities & Ways Forward*** - focuses improving governance in health sector through universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring governance in health service delivery: responsiveness, managing stakeholders, coordination & coalition, performamce monitoring & evaluation. 


Finally, ***Theme-5: The Service Delivery Improvement Project (SDIP): A practical tool for equity related project planning and management*** - focuses on useful practical tools for project planning and management to address health governance related problems under participants' SDIP project. It guides participants to apply good governance in their professional work using logical framework such as vertical logic and horizontal logic. 


### Learning Outcomes 

Course learning outcomes  

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
 
  - Basic Principles of Good Governance 

  - Governance Responsiveness, Accountability and 
 Transparency
  
  - Inter-sectoral Collaboration: GO-NGO, Public-Private 
    
  - Collaboration and Coordination
  
  - Citizen Engagement (CE), Stakeholder Management, Governance Tools
  
  - Quality Control (QC) in Service Delivery, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
    
  - Develop a project focusing on solving health inequities using the Service Delivery Improvement Project (SDIP) tools 

 
Teaching and structure
 
This **ONLINE** course was conducted between 13 December - 30 December 2021, three days a week 
(Saturdays, Mondays, Wednesdays), from 3:30PM to 5:30PM each day (sometimes sessions maybe continued up to 6PM). Teaching and Learning (T&L) methodologies of the course involves facilitator led interactive discussions, case studies, group discussions, exercises (think-pair-share), brainstorming/free listing, and panel discussions with public health specialists and experts. Participants also spent time about 1-2 hour a week on self-directed reading. Finally, participants submitted a SDIP (group assignment) to successfully complete the course within next one month. Participants evaluated the course on daily basis via a Google Survey Form. 

Assessment and certificates

All participants would receive certificates from the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH), BRAC University who successfully 
complete the course including final submission of practical work called Service Delivery Improvement Project (SDIP) Plan. Participants will be expected to take part in presentations and will receive feedback on these. Each participant will be assessed through a presentation and submission of written report. Additionally, BRAC JPGSPH keeps daily attendance through a Google attendance sheet which carries 10% of total assessment. 

Structured follow-up

Three TEAMS were formed with all course participants. They had been followed up for four weeks between 1 January to 26 March 2022 after completion of the course on 30 December 2021. It should be noted that this follow up is critical to reinforce their learning as they intend to apply their learning through a practical project called Service Delivery Improvement Project (SDIP). We used to meet one a week with each of thee teams (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) using Google Meet Virtual Platform. During this follow up, the Lead Facilitator provided feedback on their final draft SDIP and each team was supposed to address those feedback and resubmit the updated SDIP for further comments. Thus, each team completed SDIP through iterative process which is unique feature of this experiential learning course. 

Course evaluation

We followed a Daily Evaluation strategy instead of end of the course evaluation approach. We sent a Google Form to each participant after each session and requested them to return the form before next session. Participants evaluated three aspects of the course: learning content, teaching and learning (T&L) methods used, and facilitation. There were open ended question in the form to receive participants' feedback on the course. Participants feedback helped us to improve the short course.

### Resource Persons 



Course team

Dr Sabina Faiz Rashid

Dean and Professor

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), BRAC University


Dr Rizwan Khair

Technical Advisor

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University

and

Associate Professor, North South University, Dhaka

Mr. Kazi Hasan Imam

Lead Facilitator

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH)

BRAC University, Mohakhali, Dhaka

Dr. Kazi NH Haque

Assistant Scientist

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH)

BRAC University, Mohakhali, Dhaka
 
 Dr. Proloy Barua
 
Assistant Scientist

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH)

BRAC University, Mohakhali, Dhaka

 Mr. Munirul Islam
 
Senior Project Officer

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH)

BRAC University, Mohakhali, Dhaka



Resource persons 
 
(*Alphabetical order of last name*) 
 
Dr. Md. Morshed Alom
 
Director
 
Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BPATC), Savar, Ministry of Public Administration (MoPA), Government of Bangladesh
 
Mr. Md. Ashadul Islam
 
[Former Senior Secretary](https://en.shampratikdeshkal.com/bangladesh/news/20068100/md-ashadul-islam-made-senior-secretary)
 
Planning Division of the Ministry of Planning.Previously, he was in  Health Economics Unit (HEU) of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Government of Bangladesh (GoB)


Mr. Nazrul Islam
 
Director
 
Former Secretary (Coordination and Reform)

Cabinet Division, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Government of Bangladesh
  
Dr. Taufique Joarder

Vice-Chairperson 
 
Public Health Foundation, Bangladesh
 
Dr. Rizwan Khair
 
Associate Professor
 
South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Dr. Mohammad Asif Shahan
 
Associate Professor
 
Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 

 
Dr. Mohammod Abdus Sabur
 
Public Health Specialist
Dhaka, Bangladesh 
 

Mr. Md. Helal Uddin
 
Former Additional Secretary (Planning)
 
Health Service Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of Bangladesh (GoB)
 

### Participants 
 
Course participants

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### At a Glance 

Course at a glance

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### Course Gallery 

Closing Day

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