The Knowledge library

Technical Briefs

Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis

This data-rich technical brief examines the potential impact of population growth on countries’ efforts to improve access to health workers, and recommends an approach that will help meet families’ health needs while mitigating the health workforce crisis. Also available in French.

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Updating and Disseminating Guidelines for Family Planning and Reproductive Health: The Role of Health Systems Strengthening

Describes several approaches used to achieve needed changes in service delivery practice, and provides recommendations for actions at the local level.

Training Health Workers in Africa: Documenting Faith-Based Organizations’ Contributions

Provides information on preservice and in-service trainings offered by faith-based organizations, with a focus on nursing and midwifery pre-service training in Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

The Kenya Emergency Hiring Plan: Results from a Rapid Workforce Expansion Strategy

Discusses the planning and implementation of the Capacity Project-led Emergency Hiring Plan, and reflections for future implementation.

Strengthening Human Resources Management: Knowledge, Skills and Leadership

Describes the rationale, process, methodology, and some of the results of key approaches that the Capacity Project and its collaborating partners developed and implemented in sub-Saharan Africa.

Addressing Gender Inequality in Human Resources for Health

Reviews how the Capacity Project addressed gender discrimination and inequality in HRH through its institutional mechanisms, approaches, and tools as well as in country-level implementation.

Applying the Learning for Performance Approach

Discusses the Capacity Project’s participation in the development of LFP-informed learning interventions.

Supporting Health Worker Performance with Effective Supervision

Shares the Capacity Project's performance support intervention model, analyzes the variations in results and includes recommendations for implementing and scaling up interventions.