MeTA stakeholders workshop

NZP+ Lusaka is a member of the Zambia Medicine Alliance Transparency (MeTA) Civil Society Organizations Coalition, The coalition held a workshop on were 14 civil society organization attended, a presentation was made on the stop stock out campaign, the presented covered the concept and aims of the campaign, this presentation Casco the stop stock outs campaign country team member asked the presented to join the campaign and push government to increase access to essential medicines. All the civil society present pledged to support the campaign, in the presentation another presentation was made by Claudio Midolo the OSI fellow who was in the country to building capacity in the country team on SMS pill stock out system, website and video shooting and uploading the video on the website, in his presentation Claudio gave an overview of the technical part of the SMS system and how the data collected can used to in the media
and for advocacy. Most participate showed a lot of interested in the SMS and made suggestion on how the SMS can be improved, suggestion were noted and appreciated and some them suggestion made were incorporated in the System and data collection strategy. In this workshop the stop stock out concept was introduced and a strong networking was initiated with the 14 CSOs that were present. The stop stock outs campaign country team will continue to work these CSOs as stakeholders in the campaign