Sharing the good practice of bridging leadership in health governance

This is the second part of my column about good practices in devolution and family planning (FP) that the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) shared with the Badan Kependudukan Keluarga dan Berencana Nasional (BKKBN) or the National Family Planning Board of Indonesia regarding their partnership in the South-South & Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) Program.

The first activity that PopCom organized in August 2014 for 12 Indonesians from BKKBN and its partners from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Indonesia, local government units (LGUs) and civil society was to take them to Gen. Santos City, South Cotabato and Damulog Municipality in Bukidnon province for a short seminar and to observe good FP practices in some health facilities. Although many useful lessons were obtained from these activities, what caught the Indonesian partners’ attention was the Zuellig Family Foundation’s (ZFF) health change model that was presented by Dr. Bien Nillos, ZFF’s Community Partnership Program director at the time. I was happy to learn that Dr. Nillos obtained his Master of Health Social Science degree from De La Salle University, the transdisciplinary graduate program that I developed with my colleagues at this institution.