We conducted scoping reviews on three topics; how can people’s participation improve public and private health care, how to contracting systems affect primary health care and what role can community participation can play, and how can we achieve universal health coverage with plural health systems.

We present below the English briefs of these three scoping reviews.

The Research team in South Africa collaborated with the Health Committees in Eastern and Western Cape to understand community participation in health. One of the focus of the study was to understand how the health committees interpret the National Health Insurance. Presented below are summaries of the insights obtained from the study in both Eastern and Western cape. The summaries below are shared in English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans.