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Our Health our Money - Part 1

Our Health Our Money - Part 2

Health related expenditures have been identified as one of the major causes of rural impoverishment in many developing countries including India. The declining financial resources allocated by the state has resulted in forcing people to pay from their pocket for health care even as the unofficial and informal payments continue in whatever public health services that are still delivered. The inadequacy shown by the community in asking any question on the functioning of the health system and more so regarding the utilization of the financial resources in health such as untied funds to the PHC, sub-centre and to each of the Village Health Nutrition and Sanitation Committees (VHNSC) or the disbursement of Maternal Protection Scheme (Janani Suraksha Yojana -JSY) etc., has been a critical area which needed intervention. The community monitoring and planning advocated by civil society and also promoted by the government under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has yielded positive results. However, it has been an uphill task to include the issues of health budget and flow of money into the processes of monitoring which is a challenging task. This documentary captures such an effort done in 12 villages of Bolangir district, Orissa State, India where community is taught as to the money that is allocated to various schemes at the community level to deliver health entitlements. Such demand for accountability is done while the community is actively engaging with the public health system within the larger processes of community mobilisation and monitoring to demand accountability from the health system. Our Health Our Money, a film produced by CHSJ showcases the work done in Odisha around decentralised monitoring of health expenditure. The film is 25 minutes, with English subtitles.

Film 1- The Story of Vijay Kavhe. This short film, produced by CHSJ is a part of the Yes, We Can series, which documents the stories of men in Maharashtra who have brought about a change in their lives, after becoming sensitized towards gender equality and how this changed perspective has impacted their attitudes and behavior towards the women and children in their family- often making them more caring fathers.
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Film 2- The Story of Babasaheb Mane. This short film, produced by CHSJ is a part of the Yes, We Can series, which documents the stories of men in Maharashtra who have brought about a change in their lives, after becoming sensitized towards gender equality and how this changed perspective has impacted their attitudes and behavior towards the women and children in their family- often making them more caring fathers.
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Film 3- The Story of Vilas Dalvi. This short film, produced by CHSJ is a part of the Yes, We Can series, which documents the stories of men in Maharashtra who have brought about a change in their lives, after becoming sensitized towards gender equality and how this changed perspective has impacted their attitudes and behavior towards the women and children in their family- often making them more caring fathers.
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Film 4- The Story of Dadaso Gurav. This short film, produced by CHSJ is a part of the Yes, We Can series, which documents the stories of men in Maharashtra who have brought about a change in their lives, after becoming sensitized towards gender equality and how this changed perspective has impacted their attitudes and behavior towards the women and children in their family- often making them more caring fathers.
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Film 5- The Story of Atul Deshmukh. This short film, produced by CHSJ is a part of the Yes, We Can series, which documents the stories of men in Maharashtra who have brought about a change in their lives, after becoming sensitized towards gender equality and how this changed perspective has impacted their attitudes and behavior towards the women and children in their family- often making them more caring fathers.
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Chuppi Todo (Breaking the Silence), a film produced by CHSJ shows the journey of young men and boys towards gender equality and the subsequent change and impact of this on their families and community. The film is in Hindi with English subtitles and produced in November 2011.

Testimonies of states and individuals from Peoples Tribunal on two child norm and coercive population policies in New Delhi.

Watch Abhijit Das, Director, CHSJ talk about the reality of health care in developing countries, in a film produced by Oxfam International, in February 2009.

Watch Satish Kumar Singh, Deputy Director, CHSJ, as he talks about Gender and Masculinity on Al-Jazeera Englishs' programme People and Power, March 2009

Reviewing Hopes Realizing Rights, a film produced by CHSJ, captures the Community Monitoring process by bringing out the dynamics of generating voices and demands at the community level. This film was produced in July 2009. A small clip of the film is uploaded here.

Changing the Course, a film on Men's and Boy's initiatives for gender equality and stopping violence, documents the process and ideology of MASVAW in Uttar Pradesh. This film was produced in 2006. A small clip of this film is uploaded here.