Governance
The Self-Care Trailblazer Group’s governance structure aims to ensure effective coordination, to bring mutual value to partners without adding unnecessary complexity or bureaucratic burden. Representation and inclusivity are essential for our legitimacy, with broad multi-stakeholder engagement in activities and decision-making processes.
The SCTG operates as both a coalition and a set of related programs. The SCTG’s coalition function is responsible for building a coordinated, diverse, and influential self-care movement that is mobilized around common evidence, goals, and messaging to advance self-care. It also aims to build awareness and support for quality, evidence-based self-care among self-care influencers, policymakers, and potential opposition.
COALLITION
The SCTG operates as both a coalition and a set of related programs. The SCTG’s coalition function is responsible for building a coordinated, diverse, and influential self-care movement that is mobilized around common evidence, goals, and messaging to advance self-care. It also aims to build awareness and support for quality, evidence-based self-care among self-care influencers, policymakers, and potential
opposition.
The coalition functions include individual and organizational members, a Coalition Steering Committee, member working groups, and the SCTG Learning Lab
PROGRAM
The SCTG’s programmatic function aims to ensure self-care policies and financing are instituted at national and subnational levels and demand and that accountability for self-care increase among target communities and constituencies. The programmatic function is carried out by National Self-Care Networks in priority countries and is guided by the Program Advisory Committee.
The Program Advisory Committee (PAC) advises on the SCTG’s programmatic functions in the logic framework. It is made up of donors supporting the SCTG, chairs of the SCTG working groups, and designated leads for each National Self-Care Network.
The PAC meets at least twice yearly with program leads to discuss progress and challenges, and share their perspectives and priorities as they relate to achieving programmatic outcomes.
[link to Terms of Reference for PAC]
STRATEGY
The Self-Care Trailblazer Group’s work is guided by a Strategic Plan that outlines its vision, goals, and objectives for the five-year period from January 2021 through December 2025. It reflects a new phase for the SCTG – when evidence, policies, and practices to advance self-care are poised to be increasingly localized and its potential increasingly broadened.
