The Knowledge library

Knowledge Library

Capacity Project Archived Website

The USAID-funded Capacity Project (2004-2009) preceded CapacityPlus. Its archived website contains tools and resources on planning, developing, and supporting the health workforce, as well as news and project results.

Global Partnerships: Strengthening Human Resources for Health Approaches Together

Provides a retrospective view of the Capacity Project’s contributions and recommendations in the area of global partnering.

Repositioning Family Planning: Rwanda’s No-Scalpel Vasectomy Program

Discusses the Capacity Project's work to expand family planning services, and provides recommendations for future implementation.

Worker Retention in Human Resources for Health: Catalyzing and Tracking Change

Documents some contributions made from 2005 to 2008 in the area of health worker retention, including country-level experiences, emerging lessons from practical schemes and key reflections about retention initiatives.

TAGS: Retention

Human Resources for Health: Tackling the Human Resource Management Piece of the Puzzle

Describes the human resource management (HRM) problems that contribute to the health worker crisis, identifies specific strategic actions to address these HRM challenges and concludes with examples of innovations to stimulate programmatic funding opportunities for strengthening human resources for health.

HIV Care for Health Workers: Perceptions and Needs

Provides results from a participatory study on health workers' needs for HIV care and makes policy recommendations based on health workers' self-reported information.

TAGS: AIDS, HIV, Nurses

Building the Bridge from Human Resources Data to Effective Decisions: Ten Pillars of Successful Data-Driven Decision-Making

Presents ten fundamental and practical pillars to aid HR managers, practitioners and policy analysts in building a bridge from HR data and reports to effective HR policy and management decisions.

An Overview of Human Resources for Health (HRH) Projection Models

Provides a rapid review of different health workforce projection approaches with a list of references for more information.