Author Archives: Rural Health Advocacy Project

Press Statement An Alternative Human Rights Based People’s Budget

Press Statement An Alternative Human Rights Based People’s Budget

CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET Download the Alternative Budget here Broad collective of socio-economic rights organisations offer example of a budget which takes ordinary South Africans seriously. Minister Gigaba will be asked to make hard, but essential budget choices in his first budget speech in Parliament tomorro ...
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Towards Substantial Reform for Rural Health: In anticipation of the 2018 Budget Speech

Towards Substantial Reform for Rural Health: In anticipation of the 2018 Budget Speech

By Russell Rensburg, RHAP Programme Manager: Health Systems and Policy In his inaugural state of the nation address, President Ramaphosa outlined a broad set of initiatives that focussed primarily on addressing the lapses in trust between the government and the people. The focus was on improving the credibility of the state and more specificall ...
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Report of the Standing Committee on Appropriations on the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, dated 29 November 2017

RHAP was one of the stakeholders invited to present to this committee on 25 October 2017. Russell Rensburg, RHAP’s Health System and Policy Manager represented RHAP at this meeting. The Minister of Finance tabled the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on 25 October 2017 as required by section 6 (1) of the Money Bills Amendment Pr ...
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SASOP – RHAP STATEMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY TRAINING 2018

SASOP – RHAP STATEMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY TRAINING 2018

SASOP-RHAP STATEMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY TRAINING 2018 The Life Esidimeni tragedy continued to dominate the news throughout 2017. The testimonies of several witnesses in the arbitration hearings, chaired by retired deputy chief-justice Dikgang Moseneke, established how the Gauteng Department of Health continued to dismiss all warnings, de ...
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Mandate Paper Budget 2018 – Department: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Mandate Paper Budget 2018 – Department: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

In 2016, Cabinet identified the need to strengthen the alignment of the South African Budget, the Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) and the National Development Plan (NDP), and for budget prioritisation to focus on the last 24 months of the current administration. The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) and the Nationa ...
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Priority-Setting, Social Justice and Human Rights in the Eastern Cape

Priority-Setting, Social Justice and Human Rights in the Eastern Cape

By Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga, Rural Health Advocacy Project, published in issue 4 of Spotlight. The stories of health care users experiences with the health system as published by Spotlight are devastating. Various factors play a role when patients’ rights are violated, such as poor planning, inadequate HR management, budget cuts, healthcare wor ...
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