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Local Solutions, Global Solidarity, and Accountability

February 2011 by Meshack Ndolo
TAGS: Finance, Health Workers, Millennium Development Goals, Second Global Forum on HRH

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog.

Meshack NdoloWhile the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health was full of opportunities, it was also quite deficient in addressing the one global issue that continues to hold back progress to achieving most of the health goals—the Millennium Development Goal 8: Global Partnership for Development. I do, however, remain optimistic.

In my country, Kenya, there is considerable awareness of the health workforce problem and there is momentum to act on many fronts. The Capacity Kenya project has worked closely with the Ministry of Health and others to develop a national Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan, which established national priorities for addressing Kenya’s workforce constraints. Read more »

Making Money Work: Global Advisory Board to Strengthen Health Professional Schools

February 2011 by Amanda Puckett and Richard Seifman
TAGS: Education and Training, Global Advisory Board, Health Workers, Preservice Education

Amanda PuckettRecently, CapacityPlus announced the launch of the Global Advisory Board on Strengthening Medical, Nursing, and Public Health Schools in Developing Countries. The board—as part of our work to strengthen preservice education and training—will help to address management issues in health professional schools.

“The global health community needs to urgently support the strengthening of not only the curricula development of medical schools, schools of public health, and nursing schools, but even more so their management capacity and the ability of their deans and other senior leaders to play a prominent role in the health sector and HRH [human resources for health] reforms of their countries,” says Chairperson Dr. Ok Pannenborg. Read more »

What Brought Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Implementing Country-Level Health Workforce Development Plans

February 2011 by Vincent Oketcho
TAGS: Health Workers, Policy and Planning, Second Global Forum on HRH

CapacityPlus works with the Uganda Ministry of Health to enhance workforce performance support, including field testing the project’s global rapid discrete choice experiment (DCE) tool to address attraction and retention of health worker cadres in rural and remote areas and a retention costing tool, iHRIS Retain. This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog.

Three years ago, we met in Kampala, Uganda to discuss the critical needs of the global health workforce. Last week in Bangkok we gathered to take stock of what we’ve accomplished since.

Today, 86% of the 51 countries surveyed in the progress report on implementing the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action have a national human resources for health plan, but only 41% are actually implementing that plan. Read more »

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