The fourth edition of the International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD), will be co-hosted by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme) and by the University of Bern’s Centre for Development and Environment (CDE). The event will take place 5-8 September 2017 in Bern, Switzerland, with the theme “Evidence. Engagement. Policies.”
The ICRD offered young researchers the opportunity to apply for financial support to participate in the conference. Silvana Pérez León, COHESION Research Assistant in Peru, applied and was awarded the scholarship.
“I thought this was a great opportunity to build a proposal and show some of the work the COHESION project has been doing in Peru. The session that captured my attention was ‘Building transformative partnerships between health services and communities as a means to advancing the agenda towards sustainable development: a pathway forward’; because one important objective of COHESION is to build interventions in primary health care services that include the participation of the community.” – Silvana Pérez León
Silvana’s proposal to the ICRD included information gathered during the engagement and formative studies with health workers and the communities. This process enabled the Peruvian team to understand and acknowledge the needs of different stakeholders and to start thinking about how COHESION could design interventions that build transformative partnerships between health services and communities.
Silvana will be a panelist at ICRD on September 6, showing some of the work the Peruvian team has been developing in the past months.
Silvana Pérez León presenting at the ICRD.
Silvana Pérez León collecting data that informed her presentation at ICRD.