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Webinar Fosters Knowledge-Sharing to Strengthen the Social Services Workforce

Jul 19, 2011

More than 75 participants from 15 countries participated in a webinar on July 14 to explore how lessons learned from the global effort to strengthen human resources for health (HRH) can benefit social services workforce development. Read more »

CapacityPlus Contributes to eHealth Workshop in Ethiopia

Jul 14, 2011

From June 13-16, CapacityPlus’s Dykki Settle participated in the Ethiopian eHealth Standards and Interoperability Workshop in Addis Ababa at the invitation of the World Health Organization. The workshop was hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the WHO.
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HRH Global Resource Center Joins New Partnership to Expand Health Workforce Knowledge

Jul 13, 2011

The HRH Global Resource Center has signed a formal partnership agreement with the University of New South Wales’ HRH Knowledge Hub. The intent of this partnership is to work collaboratively to share information and resources and to provide access to valuable human resource for health (HRH) materials without duplicating efforts. Read more »

New Resource Spotlight: Interview with Sara Pacqué-Margolis on the HRH Indicator Compendium

Jun 30, 2011

One of the challenges in health systems strengthening is measuring and evaluating the work. “You value what you measure, and measure what you value,” says Sara Pacqué-Margolis, coauthor of a new CapacityPlus resource. “You don’t pay attention to activities that you don’t monitor.” Read more »

Taking Steps to Retain Health Workers in Rural Areas of Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Jun 29, 2011

Half of the world’s population lives in rural areas, but they are served by only 24% of physicians and 38% of nurses worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Health workers are often not motivated to accept or remain at posts in rural and remote areas, for a variety of reasons. Read more »

HRH Global Resource Center June Update

Jun 24, 2011

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 »

New Article Presents Findings from Study on Barriers to Equity in HIV Caregiving

Jun 23, 2011

On June 8, the International Journal for Equity in Health published “Occupational segregation, gender essentialism and male primacy as major barriers to equity in HIV care giving: Findings from Lesotho,” by Constance J. Newman, Linda Fogarty, Lucia N. Makoae, and Erik Reavely. The article describes a study conducted in partnership with the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare as part of the Capacity Project, the predecessor to CapacityPlus. Read more »

Using iHRIS Software to Track Botswana's Health Workforce

Jun 21, 2011

Without current data on health workers, countries cannot ensure that the right provider is in the right place with the right skills. In Botswana, the Ministry of Health is partnering with CapacityPlus to implement iHRIS Manage, CapacityPlus’s free, Open Source software for maintaining information on health worker deployment and attrition. Read more »

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