Special Collection Makes Health Workforce Resources from Sudan Available to the Public
The HRH Global Resource Center launched a Special Collections feature that enables collaboration with projects, organizations, and groups working in the field of human resources for health (HRH) to provide access to key documents and tools.
The Directorate General of Human Resources for Health Development (DGHRD) of the Federal Ministry of Sudan is partnering with the HRH Global Resource Center on a DGHRD Special Collection to host the agency’s materials that would not otherwise be available online. The HRH Global Resource Center is hosting these key documents on its server so that important country-level policies and resources such as these can be made freely available online to anyone who is interested.
The DGHRD Special Collection includes HRH assessments, the country’s HRH strategic plan, a framework for HRH development, and the country’s policy on continuing professional development for the health workforce. Current resources in this special collection include:
- National Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan for Sudan 2012-2016. This strategic plan aims to guide work in developing HR plans at different levels of the health system in a comprehensive approach. The plan defines priority HR issues and recommends goals and objectives to improve health workforce policies, planning, production, distribution, and HR management systems.
- Building Bridges to Sustainable Human Resources for Health Development: Annual Report 2012. This report documents the goals, contributions, and achievements of the DGHRD. The report includes an introduction to HRH with reference to its importance to the health system; annual plans, achievements, and drawbacks of the institutes and subdirectorates; and a statement on the way forward.
- Continuing Professional Development Policy (Sudan). This document aims to serve as a policy guide for the provision of continuing professional development to health workers affiliated with Federal and State ministries of Health in Sudan. This policy framework sets regulations, standards, and norms.
- Framework for the Development of Human Resources in the Pharmaceutical Sector. This report describes key pharmaceutical HR issues and steps leading to the development of the HR strategy and the pharmaceutical HR strategy framework
- Assessment of Human Resources at the Pharmaceutical Sector. The main objective of this assessment was to determine HR availability in the pharmaceutical sector in Sudan. The assessment was done in six states and included the Ministry of Health and its agencies, pharmacy education providers, public health facilities, private retail pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and local pharmaceutical companies.
Another HRH Global Resource Center special collection hosts documents from Harmonization for Health in Africa, a collaborative initiative that provides regional support to governments in Africa for strengthening their health systems.
The HRH Global Resource Center is CapacityPlus’s digital library of human resources for health information. Since its inception, it has focused on making country-level health workforce resources available to the public. There are currently over 3,600 resources.
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Photo by Albert González Farran, courtesy of UNAMID. (Children at the registration for a vaccination campaign against meningitis at the School for Midwives in El Daein, East Darfur, Sudan).
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