OSF Public Health Program Seminar Series
Access to Medicines – African Civil Society Role and Response
Agenda (download)
OSI Access to Medicines Initiative
Access to Medicines – African Civil Society Role and Response
December 7-10, 2009
Lusaka, Zambia
Monday, December 7
Chair: Roxana Bonnell and Casco Mubanga
09:30-09:45 Introduction of participants
09:45-09:50 Official opening by Ministry of Health Deputy Minister
9:50-10:00 Goals
10:00-10:30 Overview of the Stock-Outs Campaign
10:30-11:30 Successes of the Stock out Campaign in 2009 – panel discussion
Helen Magomba, Emma Wanyonyi, Harrison Mwima, Tafadzwa
Chigariro, Sandra Kiapi
(Roxana Bonnell to facilitate)
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Overcoming the Challenges of the Stock out Campaign in 2009 – panel discussion
Rosemary Kambewa, James Kamau, Casco Mubanga, Tafadzwa
Chigariro, Stella Kentutsi
(Roxana Bonnell to facilitate)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lessons learned from 2009 Stock-Outs Campaign (what accounts for
effective campaigning, what do we learn from country-campaigns etc?)
Exploring priorities for 2010?
15:30-16:00 Zambia (Casco Mubanga) and Uganda (Denis Kibira) - short country
presentations on stock out campaign
(Each country will be invited to display throughout the 4 days all campaign materials and
media reports on 5 big display boards – one board for each country)
16:00-17:30 Campaigning documentaries/media products from other movements –
what can we learn for our own campaigning?
19:00 Welcome Reception
Tuesday, December 8
Chair: Brett Davidson and Gichinga Ndirangu
9:30-11:00 Priorities for 2010 and next steps in campaigning (national,
regional and international)
What/where are the opportunities? Building synergies at national and
regional levels
11:00-11:15 Malawi presentation on Stock out Campaign (Saiti Chikwapulo)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 New media as a platform for innovation in advocacy and campaigning:
SMS as an advocacy tool for 2010
Presenters: Peter Benjamin, Ndesanjo Macha
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Kenya (David Musyoki) and Zimbabwe (Tafadzwa Chigariro) stock out
presentations
14:00-16:30 Country meetings – creating 2010 national strategies
16:30-18:00 Presentations of country/regional plans and discussion
19:00 Group Dinner
Wednesday, December 9
Chair: Els Torreele and Peter Munyi
9:00-12:00 Training on Anti-counterfeiting legislation for civil society
Christa Cepuch and Els Torreele - intro to frame the issues in access to medicines
perspective
perspective
Peter Munyi and Moses Mulumba – explanation of legal aspects of proposed legislation
Sisule Musungu – African perspective and global context
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 EAC draft policy – what is the situation, what has been done to date?
Sisule Musungu
Brainstorm on strategy for responding
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Medicine quality – issues and challenges / role for civil society?
Els Torreele
19:00 Group Dinner
Thursday, December 10
Chair: Christa Cepuch and Roxana Bonnell
9:30-10:30 Kenya and Uganda experiences – What are the issues of concern? What has been the
approach of civil society? What have been responses? What have we learned?
approach of civil society? What have been responses? What have we learned?
Peter Munyi: Kenya
Moses Mulumba: Uganda
10:30-11:15 Zambia/Tanzania/others – brainstorming on creating national responses to
anti-counterfeiting legislation
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:00 Country teams break-out on next steps in advocacy (to influence national legislation and EAC)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Country teams to report back to plenary + discussion
16:00 Closing
16.30-17:00 Separate CS group meetings with OSI
19:30 Ending Reception