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Lao PDR Health Leader Presents Results from CapacityPlus Retention Tools

Last week, Dr. Chanthakhath Paphassarang, deputy chief of the Education and Training Division, Department of Organization and Personnel in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Ministry of Health, presented results from country application of two CapacityPlus tools. The Ministry, with assistance from CapacityPlus and the World Health Organization (WHO), recently used the Rapid Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) Tool to understand health workers’ motivational preferences for working in rural areas and iHRIS Retain to cost the resulting incentive packages. Read more »

CapacityPlus Presents Retention Tools at AAAH Conference Side Meeting

Last week, CapacityPlus cosponsored a preconference side meeting with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank at the 6th Annual Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) Conference in Cebu, Philippines. The side meeting, "Addressing recruitment and retention of health workers: Application of tools," provided participants with a detailed look at several new and upcoming tools focused on health worker retention, including: Read more »

CapacityPlus Launches Technical Brief Series with Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis

CapacityPlus announces its first technical brief, Population growth and the global health workforce crisis, by Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Carie Muntifering, Crystal Ng, and Shaun Noronha. This data-rich 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. Read more »

Sharing Information and Tools for Health Systems Strengthening

CapacityPlus contributed to knowledge-sharing at the Fall meeting of the Bureau of Global Health Cooperating Agencies Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Working Group, held on November 3 in Washington, DC. Following a plenary discussion on health systems strengthening in the Global Health Initiative, CapacityPlus’s Sara Pacqué-Margolis gave an introduction to the Tools Fair for Health Systems-Related Measurement and Assessment. Read more »

Uganda Prepares for Health Worker Compensation Study

What motivates health workers to remain in their posts in low-resource countries? Labor market economic theory suggests that health worker retention is influenced by monetary compensation, but unfortunately there is little known about what is received by different types of health workers in different sectors, locations, and facilities. Baseline salaries are sometimes complemented by additional allowances and benefits, which are not always standardized, and vary across health worker cadres and locations. Read more »

iHRIS Retain Used to Cost Health Worker Retention Incentives in Lao PDR

In September, Grace Chee from CapacityPlus partner Abt Associates traveled to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) to assist the Ministry of Health in costing retention incentive packages for health workers through a field-test of iHRIS Retain. Read more »

HRH Global Resource Center October Update

This monthly update from the HRH Global Resource Center provides information on the latest resources, improvements, and news from this digital library devoted to human resources for health (HRH). Read more »

Introducing Carie Muntifering, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Advisor

In September, Carie Muntifering joined IntraHealth International’s Washington, DC office as monitoring, evaluation, and research advisor for CapacityPlus. Read more »

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