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Organised on April 22, 2004, this workshop was aimed to discuss and develop sustainable and scaleable strategies to improve maternal and child health outcomes for the urban poor in India. Drawing on the experiences of government officials, NGOs, and researchers, the workshop sought to provide a space to discuss the opportunities and challenges of evolving multifaceted approaches and inter-sectoral partnerships in the area of urban health. More specifically, it focused on innovations to strengthen service delivery to the poor through urban public health systems, the challenges of community mobilisation and participation in urban slums, and the different research methodologies that may be developed to assess and sensitively inform urban health initiatives.
With participation from civil society and government representatives, as well as national and international academics and researchers, the workshop facilitated rich discussions on innovative approaches of working with the public health system in urban areas to improve its performance in delivering antenatal, postnatal and neonatal care to the urban poor; community mobilisation and participation for sustainable improvements in maternal and child health outcomes through changes at the individual, family and community level; designing and conducting research in urban settings for developing, assessing and informing strategies and initiatives as well as to strengthen interventions, while building the research and evaluation capacities within the public health system and NGOs.
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