Equinet Africa

EQUINET, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa, is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region who have come together as an equity catalyst, to promote and realise shared values of equity and social justice in health.

EQUINET gathers people to overcome isolation, give voice and promote networking using bottom-up approaches built on shared values. We have come together in a spirit of self determination and collective self reliance working through existing government, civil society, research and other mechanisms and institutions in East and Southern Africa.

EQUINET is building a forum for dialogue, learning, sharing of information and experience and critical analysis. We do this to build knowledge and perspectives, shape effective strategies, strengthen our voice nationally, regionally and globally and to buiild strategic alliances to influence policy, politics and practice towards health equity and social justice.

EQUINET's work covers a wide range of areas identified as priorities for health equity, within the political economy of health, health services and inputs to health, covered in the theme areas shown on this site. EQUINET is governed by a steering committee with representatives from institutions in the region, has leads co-ordinating major areas of work and a secretariat at the Training and Research Support Centre Zimbabwe.

In 2022 our EQUINET Conference and various steering committee meetings have identified key areas of work on health equity within our three strategic areas - Reclaiming the resources; Reclaiming the state; Reclaiming collective agency and solidarity. We are building on past work and alliances, renewing network leadership and developing a programe of research, work, dialogue, and engagement to put the resolutions of our Conference into action. To give time for this we will not have the quarterly newsletter in March 1 2023. Watch out for our next newsletter on June 1 2023- it will be a bumper issue!

Meetings

EQUINET REGIONAL MEETING MARCH 2023 - Expanding promising practice on urban health and wellbeing

EQUINET is hosting a regional meeting in Nairobi Kenya on March 15 and 16 on Expanding promising practice for sustained urban and periurban wellbeing in east and southern Africa. The meeting is gathering people from different sectors, local authorities, civil society and technical organisations working in various areas of urban health, as well as organisations working on climate justice, and on extractives as sites of peri-urban growth, to share and review evidence on practice features that could be scaled up across countries. The meeting will explore the implications for engaging on commercial practices and responses to climate change. The meeting will involve parallel sessions to build photojournalism skills to strengthen communication of promising practice. Read more on EQUINET work on urban health this site.

EQUINET CONFERENCE 2022 - Watch key sessions and read the resolutions

In 2022 EQUINET hosted a regional conference under the overall theme "Catalysing change for health and social justice' . The conference was online, in three separate thematic days (already held) and a fourth half day held on 17 November on the future networking and organisation on health equity. It was an exciting four days, with alot of evidence, ideas, experience from and exchanges within the region. Please select EQUINET CONFERENCE on the side tabs and visit the conference pages for more information, for the programmes, video recordings and the resolutions adopted at the conference

Grants

Read the report on health-related food standards in east and southern Africa

An open grant call was used by EQUINET, in association with ECSA HC and MoHCC Zimbabwe to commission a desk review of the laws governing food standards in east and southern Africa. The report, produced by William Kasapila, Malawi is now available on the EQUINET website. The report recommends with draft clauses areas for updating and improving legal standards in the region.

Watch this space for EQUINET grant calls in 2023

Working with partners in the region EQUINET will be making a number of open grant calls on key areas of work identified as priorities for our work in 2023-2025. Watch this space for further information.

Latest Equinet Publications

Responding to inequalities in health in urban areas in east and southern Africa: Brief 5: What does the evidence indicate for advancing urban health and wellbeing?

Loewenson R; Masotya M (2018 December)

Themes:

Equity in health, PAR work, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Poverty and health, Governance and participation in health, Monitoring equity and research to policy

Country

East and southern Africa region

URL: Urban health brief 5 Dec2018.pdf

EQUINET Diss 117: Pathways to urban health equity: Report of multi-method research in east and southern Africa

Loewenson R; Masotya M (2018 December)

Themes:

Equity in health, PAR work, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Poverty and health, Public-private mix, Governance and participation in health, Monitoring equity and research to policy

Country

East and southern Africa region

URL: EQ Diss 117 UHsynth2018.pdf

Mapping the constitutional provisions on the right to health and the mechanisms for implementation in Kenya. A case study report,

Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN) (2018)

Themes:

Values, policies and rights

Country

Kenya

URL: KELIN Kenya rights case study 2018.pdf

Participatory meetings in Harare on health and wellbeing of urban youth, 2016-7

Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC); Civic Forum on Human Development (CFHD (2018)

Themes:

Health equity in economic and trade policies, Equitable health services, Governance and participation in health

Country

Zimbabwe

URL: UH Harare Mtgs Rep 2018.pdf

EQUINET Discussion paper 116: The International Health Regulations and health systems strengthening in east and southern Africa: A desk review

Machemedze R (2018)

Themes:

Values, policies and rights, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Equitable health services, Human resources for health

Country

East and southern Africa region

URL: EQ IHR Diss 116.pdf

Mining and health: A Health Literacy Module

Loewenson, R; TARSC; EQUINET (2018 October)

Themes:

Values, policies and rights, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Public-private mix, Governance and participation in health

Country

East and southern Africa region

URL: HL module Mining and Health 2018.pdf

EQUINET Case study: Review of Constitutional Provisions on the Right to Health in Uganda

Centre for Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) (2018)

Themes:

Values, policies and rights

Country

Uganda

URL: CEHURD Constitutional Review Sep2018.pdf

EQUINET Discussion paper 115: Literature review: Strategies for recruitment and retention of skilled healthcare workers in remote rural areas

Malema NR, Muthelo L (2018 September)

Themes:

Human resources for health

Country

East and southern Africa region

URL: EQ Diss 115 HR ret litrev Sep 2018.pdf

Participatory meeting in Lusaka on health and wellbeing of urban youth, 26-27 June 2018, Lusaka, Zambia

Lusaka District Health Office(LDHO); Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC); Civic Forum on Human Development (CFHD); EQUINET (2018 July)

Themes:

Equity in health, PAR work, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Poverty and health, Equitable health services, Governance and participation in health

Country

Zambia

URL: UH Lusaka Mtg Rep June2018 fw.pdf

EQUINET Discussion paper 114: Responding to inequalities in health in urban areas: How well do current data measure urban wellbeing in East and Southern Africa?

Loewenson R, Masotya M (2018 May)

Themes:

Equity in health, Health equity in economic and trade policies, Poverty and health, Governance and participation in health, Monitoring equity and research to policy

Country

East and southern Africa region

URL: EQ Diss 114 wellbeing monitoring 2018 lfs.pdf

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