Many City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) cities lack the resources to ensure quality, equitable cancer care, and this leads to a lack of appropriate infrastructure as well as qualified human resources and treatment. This may also cause catastrophic financial shortages for patients and their families.
In order to improve city health financing, local ambassadors need to take action, advocate and catalyse change from within the system. However, local professionals, whether they belong to patient organisations, government institutions, think tanks or private institutions, often lack awareness of the tools required to become a change agent – and the possibilities this status provides.
To develop the capacity of local ambassadors to influence and generate change in cancer care financing.
C/Can has helped foster local and international knowledge exchange to catalyse transformation in health financing, bringing together change agents from diverse backgrounds (both institutional and geographic) to share ideas and experiences while co-creating solutions.
Learning from those experiences, the next step for C/Can in 2023 is to develop a change-maker programme for leaders in health financing, so as to create a network of ambassadors able to catalyse change at local level.
Two workshops have been run successfully in Uruguay and Leon, Mexico. These workshops have helped encourage knowledge transfer and foster the development of a network of more than 40 professionals in Mexico.
Globally, stakeholders are coming together to find new solutions to sustainably finance modern and resilient health systems, but ultimately the necessary changes have to be locally driven. Altogether, we have a shared responsibility to support the development of the next generation of change-makers in health financing.
Strengthening the Strategy for Early Detection of Childhood Cancer in Arequipa.
Surgical Oncology Quality Strengthening and Capacity Development Plan for Cancer Patients in Arequipa
Strengthening Radiology Capacity for Cancer Care in the Public Sector in Arequipa, Peru.
Improving Cancer Diagnostics by Strengthening Nuclear Medicine Services in Arequipa and the Macro South Region, Peru.
Strengthen the Capacity of Public-Sector Radiotherapy Services in Arequipa, with an Extended Impact Across the Southern Macro Region of Peru.
Strengthening Cancer Health Services to Improve Cervical and Breast Cancer Outcomes in Arequipa.
Understanding the Financial Burden of Cancer Care and Budget Execution in Arequipa.
Strengthening Information and Data Management Across Hospitals in Arequipa, including Cancer Registry Standardization.
Plan for Strengthening Quality, Safety and Multidisciplinary Teams for Cancer Care in Arequipa
Strengthen Palliative and Supportive Cancer Care to Enhance Patients' Quality of Life in Hospital and Primary Care Levels in Arequipa.
Optimising Cancer Care for Enhanced Patient Management at Blood Centers
Strengthening and Standardising Anatomical Pathology Services across the Pre-Analytical, Analytical, and Post-Analytical Stages in Arequipa, Peru.
To contribute to the organisation’s gender equity strategy, C/Can has put together a working group to generate recommendations on how to build gender-responsive health systems.
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