Africa

FBO Contributions to Scaling Up the Health Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:27:59 +0000

Author's name:

Doris Mwarey

October 2014 (All day)

FBO Contributions to Scaling Up the Health Workforce

This presentation was given at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, A Strong Health Workforce for Africa: Building Effective Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations, held on October 27, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

How Can FBOs Advance HRH and HSS More Effectively through Engagement with International Donors?

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:22:11 +0000

Author's name:

Samuel B.K. Nugblega

October 2014 (All day)

How Can FBOs Advance HRH and HSS More Effectively?

The Contribution of Indigenous Faith-Based Organizations to African National Health Systems

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:17:03 +0000

Author's name:

Rick Santos

October 2014 (All day)

Contribution of Indigenous FBOs to African National Health Systems

Partnering with African Faith-Based Organizations for a Strong Health Workforce

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:21:24 +0000

Author's name:

Doris Mwarey, Craig Hafner, and Theresa Nyamupachitu

October 2014 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #16 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #16 (Interactive Version)

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) make immense contributions to the health sector in many parts of the world. Yet they are often not integrated into planning and resource allocations for national health systems, leading to service and system redundancies and gaps. FBOs also face numerous human resources for health (HRH) challenges, similar to other public- and private-sector institutions providing health services. The Africa Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP) has strengthened its members’ capacities to address HRH challenges with support from CapacityPlus. This technical brief presents examples from ACHAP members’ efforts to strengthen HRH and integrate FBOs into national health systems and the HRH community. The brief highlights achievements in selected areas, provides lessons learned, and offers seven key recommendations for furthering FBOs’ efforts.

Exploring Contraceptive Use Differentials in Sub-Saharan Africa through a Health Workforce Lens

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:56:12 +0000

Author's name:

Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Carie Cox, Amanda Puckett, and Lois Schaefer

June 2013 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #11 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #11 (Interactive Version)

Globally, 56% of all married women are using a modern method of contraception, up from less than 10% in 1960. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, only 19% of married women are using a modern method of contraception. Since nearly all family planning services require assistance from a health worker, access to health workers is a principal supply-side determinant of family planning service use. This technical brief presents findings from a study that explored if and how health workforce measures differ between eastern and western Africa, in an effort to identify factors that may have helped some countries to achieve important gains in contraceptive prevalence while other countries have not. The findings raise questions about whether government commitment and certain policy choices vis-à-vis health workforce distribution and qualifications—even when absolute levels of health worker density are low—could make a difference in the provision of family planning services in resource-constrained countries.

Training Health Workers in Africa: Documenting Faith-Based Organizations’ Contributions

CapacityPlus — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:11:34 +0000

Author's name:

Erika Pearl, Sarla Chand, Craig Hafner

November 2009 (All day)

Project Tech Brief 17

Provides information on preservice and in-service trainings offered by faith-based organizations, with a focus on nursing and midwifery pre-service training in Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.