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“For life, bodies and the dignity of the people: justice and reproductive health” Exchange of experiences on processes...
Sharing participatory action research; Exploring the nexus between maternal and mental health in indigenous communities affected by...
The Central America Donors Forum (CADF) 2025 Participation in the Panel: Access with Equity: Civil Society and Sexual and Reproductive...
Participation in the session: “Advancing Legal Empowerment to Address Systemic Injustices and Protect Rights” “Advancing Legal Empowerment to Address...
Participation of CEGSS Director Benilda Batzin in the high-level side event held within the framework of the...
Participation in Guatemala: a view from the indigenous communities “The role of users in the monitoring and reduction...
Tulane University, through the Center for Health Equity in Latin America (CHELA) and the School...
The president of the second level Community Development Councils (COCODES) of micro-region II, El Paraíso village, Zona...
On October 4 and 5, 2024, in Cobán, Alta Verapaz, focus groups were held in...
Session on integrating climate resilience and health system performance assessment, from the framework...
Defenders of the REDCSALUD of Tectitán, and Cuilco, Departmental Delegate of the Network, and CEGSS staff in the department of...
The second cohort of the Citizen School for the Right to Health in Sololá, together with advocates and the...
Citizen surveillance in health services is a planned exercise that is carried out periodically...
The participants of the second cohort of the Citizen School for the Right to Health, in collaboration with the...
In an effort to strengthen citizen vigilance and improve the quality of health services in the region, the...
September 12, 2024. Comalapa, Chimaltenango. The closing of module II of the Citizen School for the Right to...
The first module of the Citizen School for the Right to Health/Chimaltenango concluded with feedback focused on the...
The municipality of Cobán was witness to a significant meeting where human rights defenders shared their experiences with new...
The closing of sessions I and II of Module 5 of the course of the Citizen School for the Right...
Within the framework of the Citizen School for the Right to Health, the first meeting was held in...
On May 22, 2024, the closing ceremony of Module III of the Citizen School was held in Panajachel, Sololá,...
Participants understood the importance of their participation in health-related decision making in their communities.
During Module 1, fundamental aspects of Human Rights and the national and international legal frameworks that support...
The event was attended by 36 leaders, midwives and therapists from 10 municipalities in the department of Sololá, who received tools for...
Benilda Batzin, executive director of CEGSS, was present at the event, which took place from February 12 to 14,...
Benilda Batzin, executive director of CEGSS, took part in the round table on “civil society leadership in the...
On September 25, we participated in the session on “Legal Empowerment to Address Systemic Injustices and Protect Rights”,...
The event was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from July 31 to August 3, 2023. The team...
Participation in the “Strategic Planning Meeting of the Strategic Council of the Latin American Community of Legal Empowerment” From December 31 to...
Participation in the Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, April 3-5, 2023....
Panelist at the first City of Santa Monica Wellness Summit. On the topic: “Empowering Communities to Improve...
Representation of the CEGSS of the REDC-Health in the following sessions; Panelist in the development of the topic: Research on how the...
On Wednesday 19, the Letter of Understanding was signed in Guatemala City by the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Guatemala and...
The Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) and the Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Human Rights Systems...
In July 2019, the Global Legal Empowerment Network will hold the first exchange of experiences and learning between organizations...
To represent CEGSS and REDC-Health as a panelist at the United Nations Assembly and to represent...
In order to fulfill our mission, CEGSS implements methodologies based on participatory action-research (PAR) that consists of: Systematizing the local...
Why is it important to talk about health system governance? When we speak of health system governance, we are going...
Our main interest is to study inequalities in health, social exclusion and its determinants. Knowledge is generated through collective action,...
Unlike other organizations that do academic research, CEGSS aims to go beyond the publication of our findings and results in...
a) To carry out projects and implement programs of academic research where applied social sciences can be used to better...
Empowering indigenous citizens to implement participatory monitoring for accountability in 10 rural municipalities of Guatemala. Overview: The purpose of the...
Unlike other academic research organizations, CEGSS does not simply publish its research findings....
The main concern of CEGSS focuses on health inequities, social exclusion and their determinants. The knowledge...
Through the research and technical training that CEGSS carries out, we have had an impact in the following areas: Democratization...
Why is governance relevant in health systems? When we talk about health system governance, we...
To fulfill its mission, CEGSS uses a methodology based on participatory action research (PAR). This consists of the following...
In 2006, a group of young professionals, led by Walter Flores, joined forces to implement a project to improve the...
a) To carry out academic research projects and programs where social sciences are applied to the study of equity....