11/09/07 - Have Your Say in the Editorial
Process to Draft the ‘Offer of Partnership’ to the Health Ministers
of the European Region
On 22 October 2007, the WHO
EURO office will hold a Ministerial Forum in Berlin entitled ‘All
Against TB’ which will announce new political and financial commitments
to combat the disease. On 21 October 2007, the Open Society Institute
is organising a civil society meeting to bring together representatives
of communities affected by TB and service providers that work with them.
A delegate from this meeting has been given a speaking slot in the Ministerial
Forum.
The ‘Offer of Partnership’ from civil society
Civil society organisations
and affected communities play a vital role in the efforts to combat
TB in the European Region. This has been recognised by the World Health
Organisation (WHO) and national authorities in various strategic documents
such as World Health Assembly resolutions on TB. For the Ministerial
Forum ‘All Against Tuberculosis’, civil society will set out a vision
of their role in the battle against TB in the form of an ‘Offer of
Partnership’ which will state what civil society can offer to governments
and health authorities and their expectations in return for this partnership.
How can you get involved?
In order to participate in
the online editorial process for the ‘Offer of Partnership’ you
need to be a registered user (http://www.tbnetwork.eu/user
The best place to start is
by reading the draft Ministerial Declaration (http://www.tbnetwork.eu
The drafting process
The tbnetwork.eu has a transparent editing process.
http://www.tbnetwork.eu
To get things started, we have
created chapter headings that are similar to the draft Ministerial Declaration.
You can suggest new chapter headings or changes to these headings. Under
each of the chapter headings you can suggest text for bullet points.
Your input will be visible to all visitors to this website, however,
only registered users will be able to suggest amendments to your proposed
text or vote to support each bullet point. There is also a space to
make general comments about the process and timing. These will not be
published in the final ‘Offer of Partnership’.
Timeframe
Throughout the editing process
(5 September - 12 October) you can suggest bullet points, comment or
vote on any part of the text. However, we would like to finalise and
agree the Chapter Headings for the 'Offer of Partnership' by Friday
7 September. Furthermore, during certain weeks, we would like to focus
on special key issues and we particularly ask for bullets points in
each chapter on these issues:
10-14 September: Human rights, patients’ rights
17-21 September: Civil society participation in TB programmes
24-28 September: Service integration and quality standards
1-5 October: Legal status
8-12 October: Housing
15-19 October: translation
of ‘Offer of Partnership’ into Russian
The editing process will close
on Friday 12 October 2007 and so that the ‘Offer of Partnership’
can be translated into Russian. Both language versions will be discussed
and endorsed at civil society seminar on Sunday 21 October 2007 in Berlin
and formally presented at the Ministerial Forum the following day.
