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New Guidelines Help Stakeholders Work Together on Health Workforce Action

Apr 25, 2011

To help countries create effective partnerships to strengthen the health workforce, CapacityPlus has published user-friendly guidelines on stakeholder leadership groups. “Guidelines for forming and sustaining human resources for health stakeholder leadership groups,” by Wilma Gormley and Jim McCaffery, provides a practical set of actions to successfully launch and sustain these groups. Read more »

HRH Global Resource Center April Update

Apr 21, 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 »

Linking Up to Use Health Information for Improving Health Outcomes

Apr 7, 2011

Dr. Alvin Marcelo, director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center, will present CapacityPlus’s iHRIS Manage software to the country’s secretary of health at a “Connectathon” on April 12. Read more »

Lao People's Democratic Republic to Implement Health Worker Retention Tool

Apr 6, 2011

CapacityPlus and the World Health Organization (WHO) have begun assisting the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) Ministry of Health to prioritize different retention incentive options and determine the most appropriate bundles of interventions to retain rural health workers. Read more »

New Partnership Improves Access to Health Workforce Resources

Apr 5, 2011

CapacityPlus’s HRH Global Resource Center and the Global Health Workforce Alliance have formed a partnership to foster knowledge exchange among the global health workforce community. Read more »

Strengthening Nigeria’s Social Welfare Workforce to Aid Orphans and Vulnerable Children

Apr 4, 2011

CapacityPlus’s Paul Marsden and Laura Guyer-Miller recently began working with the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, government agencies, and implementing partners on approaches for strengthening the social welfare workforce needed for orphans’ and vulnerable children’s care, support, and protection. Read more »

New Translation Option Supports Country Use of Health Workforce Software

Mar 30, 2011

CapacityPlus’s iHRIS software can now be translated into numerous languages through Translatewiki, a platform that brings together translation and language communities with free and Open Source software projects. Read more »

HRH Global Resource Center Assessment Selected as Top Knowledge Management Case Story

Mar 24, 2011

The Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development project selected CapacityPlus’s case story, “The HRH Global Resource Center: Strengthening the global health workforce through KM,” as a Top Case Story in the KM Impact Challenge. The HRH Global Resource Center (GRC) is the project’s digital library of human resources for health information, and currently holds over 2,600 resources. Read more »

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