Transparency International Uganda is empowering communities in Northern Uganda to demand for better health service delivery, a project sponsored by SIDA through CIPESA. Stop Health Workers' Absenteeism is facebook link of Transparency International Uganda under health project which is empowering communities in Northern Uganda to demand for better health service delivery, a project sponsored by SP
IDER (Swedish based organization). After nearly five years of insurgency in Northern Uganda, health care systems remains under dilapidating situation, with collective rehabilitation programs by civil society organizations to improve livelihood of the people, the project shares this goal of contributing towards improvement of health service delivery in Northern Uganda. The project acknowledges that health service human resource is under staffed, and even the few are always absent from their duties but continues to get pay for what they have not worked for, this practice of absenteeism therefore besides being corruption puts the lives of health users at a risk and violates health rights. Under the project; there is much effort being put in stopping health workers’ absenteeism so as to improve health service delivery, and this will be greatly achieved in the coming months (starting month of December 2011). Before deploying ICT tools the project underwent the processes mapping stakeholders, creating partnership, mapping health center accessibility, selection of voluntary accountability committee (VAC) members, training voluntary accountability committee members,
