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Drawing on PATH’s global expertise working in primary health care (PHC) for more than 40 years, as well as deep engagement in Kenya, where PATH has supported the government for more than 30 years, PATH regularly serves as a technical partner to the Kenyan government on PHC policy adoption and implementation at both the national and subnational levels. This factsheet highlights examples as well as priorities for future work.

Drawing on four decades of advocacy experience, PATH aims to play a catalytic role in advancing the practice of advocacy in health through fostering knowledge sharing, connection and collaboration among health advocates and other stakeholders. This learning brief highlights key takeaways from a virtual conversation between civil society advocates and a policymaker from Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso about experiences and lessons in engaging policymakers for agenda and priority setting around PHC systems and policy implementation at national and regional levels.

S'appuyant sur quatre décennies d'expérience en matière de plaidoyer, PATH entend jouer un rôle de catalyseur pour promouvoir la pratique du plaidoyer dans le domaine de la santé en favorisant les échanges de connaissances, la connexion et la collaboration entre les acteurs de plaidoyer pour la santé et les autres parties prenantes. Ce dossier d'apprentissage met en lumière les principaux enseignements d'une conversation virtuelle entre les acteurs de la société civile et un responsable politique du Kenya, de l'Ouganda et du Burkina Faso sur les expériences et les leçons tirées de l'engagement des responsables politiques dans la définition de l'agenda et des priorités concernant les systèmes de SSP (soins de santé primaire) et la mise en œuvre des politiques aux niveaux national et régional.

For more than a decade, PATH has supported the adoption of evidence-based, adequately-resourced, and impactful policies. We work side by side with national and subnational government to advance evidence-based policymaking and to ensure civil society is engaged in these processes. For greater impact and sustainability, we partner with local civil society organizations (CSOs), enabling them to lead and demand accountability from governments. This document provides an orientation to our approaches to supporting governments and civil-society partners engaging in policy advocacy, highlights how our approaches and tools have been used and adapted to context, and captures our learnings.

Global health actors have invested in developing data resources and tools as global goods to support evidence-informed advocacy and decision making by policymakers, advocates, and health care providers, and other diverse players. These tools contain rich data from trusted national and global sources, which can be useful to advocates in building strong advocacy cases to influence policies, investments, decisions, and accountability for RMNCAH and nutrition.