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Gender Equality and Health Workforce Development Advocacy Tool

December 2014 by CapacityPlus

This forthcoming online tool focuses on aspects of gender discrimination in health workforce development specifically related to preservice education, such as issues affecting health professional students and faculty. If you would like us to contact you when we publish this tool, please let us know.

TAGS: Advocacy, Education, Gender, Health Workforce, Preservice, Training

mHealth Compendium Volume Four

October 2014 by African Strategies for Health
mHealth Compendium Volume Four

The fourth edition of the mHealth compendium is a collection of 31 case studies, including one focused on application of CapacityPlus’s interactive voice response (IVR) mLearning platform to deliver refresher training to family planning providers in Senegal (page 68). The compendium also highlights the nine Principles for Digital Development, provides evidence for mHealth interventions, and identifies valuable databases, training materials, guidelines, and toolkits for mHealth project implementers.

TAGS: African Strategies for Health, Family Planning, Health Workers, Interactive Voice Response, IVR, mHealth, mLearning, Senegal

Medical Education Partnership Initiative Compendium of Tools for Evaluating Community-Based Education Programs, and Pre-Workshop Activities Tool

April 2014 by CapacityPlus and Medical Education Partnership Initiative
MEPI Compendium of Tools for Evaluating Community-Based Medical Education Programs
MEPI Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop: Pre-Workshop Activities

This compendium of tools was disseminated to participants at the Medical Education Partnership Initiative Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop. Participants used the pre-workshop activities tool to prepare in advance. In collaboration with the MEPI community-based education technical working group, CapacityPlus and the MEPI Coordinating Center conducted the workshop, which was held on April 1–3, 2014, in Kampala, Uganda. The participants represented 11 MEPI-supported institutions and consortiums in seven countries. During the workshop they shared good practices for community-based education evaluation, drafted school-specific program evaluation plans, and strengthened the community-based education community of practice.

TAGS: Community-Based Education, Health Workers, MEPI, Preservice Education

Medical Education Partnership Initiative Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop: Evaluation Plan Template, Logic Model Template, and Matrix of Tools

April 2014 by Medical Education Partnership Initiative
application/pdf iconMEPI Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop: Evaluation Plan Template
application/pdf iconMEPI Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop: Logic Model Template
application/pdf iconMEPI Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop: Matrix of Tools

Participants at the Medical Education Partnership Initiative Community-Based Education Evaluation Workshop used these tools to draft school-specific program evaluation plans, develop a logic model for the plans, and review approaches for evaluating community-based education programs. In collaboration with the MEPI community-based education technical working group, CapacityPlus and the MEPI Coordinating Center conducted the workshop, which was held on April 1–3, 2014, in Kampala, Uganda.

TAGS: Community-Based Education, Health Workers, MEPI, Preservice Education

Medical Education Partnership Initiative eLearning Workshop: Strategic Plan and SWOT Analysis Templates

February 2014 by Medical Education Partnership Initiative
application/pdf iconMEPI eLearning Workshop: Strategic Plan Template
application/pdf iconMEPI eLearning Workshop: SWOT Analysis Template

Participants at the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) eLearning Strategic Plan Development Workshop used these templates to draft school-specific eLearning strategic plans and to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. In collaboration with the MEPI eLearning technical working group, CapacityPlus and the MEPI Coordinating Center organized and conducted the workshop, which was held in Gaborone, Botswana, on February 24–27, 2014. The participants represented 11 MEPI-supported schools and one MEPI consortium.

TAGS: eLearning, Health Workers, MEPI, Preservice Education, Strategic Plan

User Guide with Case Studies: How to Conduct a Discrete Choice Experiment for Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention in Remote and Rural Areas

February 2013 by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconDiscrete Choice Experiment User Guide

Understanding why health workers want or don’t want to take posts and remain in remote and rural areas is a prerequisite to formulating appropriate policy responses to the shortage of health workers in these areas. Building on the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas through Improved Retention, this user guide proposes an innovative methodology, the discrete choice experiment (DCE), to measure the strength of health workers’ preferences and trade-offs related to different job characteristics that can influence their decision to take up rural postings. The user guide offers step-by-step advice on the application of DCE to identify policy interventions appropriate to a particular country context. The guide is the product of close collaboration among three agencies—the World Bank, the WHO, and USAID/CapacityPlus—and represents their shared commitment to supporting policy-relevant research on critical topics related to human resources for health.

TAGS: Discrete Choice Experiment, Incentives, Job Satisfaction, Motivation, Retention

Human Resources Management Assessment Approach

January 2013 by Paul Marsden, Margaret Caffrey, and Jim McCaffery
application/pdf iconHuman Resources Management Assessment Approach

HRM Assessment ApproachStrengthening the human resources management (HRM) of the health workforce is essential to improve the quality of family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other key services, and to ensure that global investments to increase the number of trained health workers are supported and sustained. The Human Resources Management Assessment Approach is designed to guide policy-makers, managers, and human resources practitioners toward better understanding and responding to the HRM challenges facing their health systems. The approach promotes the collection and analysis of information on defined HRM challenges and informs the development of policy, strategy, systems, and process interventions to respond to challenges in four key areas of HRM: health workforce planning and implementation, work environment and conditions, human resources information systems, and performance management.

TAGS: Health Systems Strengthening, HR Management, Leadership, Policy and Planning

WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for Human Resources for Health (HRH) Data

October 2012 by World Health Organization
WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for HRH Data

There is widespread recognition of the need for accurate, timely, and effective human resources for health (HRH) data to inform the development of policies on HRH. However, many countries have weak information systems that can generate these data. This diagnostic tool contains questions intended to gather information on the uses, type, and quality of data on HRH at the institutional level in countries. The resulting information can then be used to identify priorities and develop strategies to strengthen human resources information systems at the district, regional, or national level. CapacityPlus contributed to the development of this resource through the WHO Health Workforce Information Reference Group (HIRG).

TAGS: Data for Decision-Making, Health Workforce, HR Information Systems, Partnerships