The 3MDG Fund is partnering with 25 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to improve the understanding of the social factors limiting access to health care, and to support a meaningful participation of community members for better services and consumer satisfaction.

This initiative, called "Collective Voices: Understanding Community Health Experience", comes in support of the vision of the Government of Myanmar to reach Universal Health Coverage by 2030 and the Constitutional objective of ensuring that every citizen shall have the right to health care.

Collective Voices is an innovative initiative that reflects the notion that, in order for the objectives of 3MDG to be achieved, fundamental changes need to occur in the relationships between health care providers and the communities they serve, especially the poor and marginalized, to achieve improvements in service quality, access and utilisation.

Hence the eventual goal of Collective Voices is for communities to be empowered to voices their needs and to access fair, responsive and inclusive health services through a breadth of health seeking behaviour change interventions, while producing changes in relationships between civil society, community and health service providers.

In the document, Collective voices: understanding community health experiences, the 3MDG Fund presents the thinking behind this initiative and the multitude of factors that were taken into account in its design, leading to an eventual call for proposals from CSOs in June 2014.

To date, Collective Voices grants have been awarded to six lead CSOs working in partnership with a total of 19 smaller community based organisations in March 2015.

Access the document: "Collective voices: understanding community health experiences"

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The 3MDG Fund was established in 2012 to strengthen health systems and accelerate service delivery, particularly to the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Myanmar.

It is supported by Australia, Denmark, the European Union, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and managed by UNOPS (United Nations Office of Project Services).
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