https://www.capacityplus.org/taxonomy/term/709/all en https://www.capacityplus.org/six-reasons-ministries-finance-should-invest-health-workers <div>Last week’s high-level talks about human resources for health in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-action-ministerial-meeting-hrh-wendemagegn-enbiale?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-network_publishes-200-null&amp;midToken=AQGH70sZt24lmg&amp;fromEmail=fromEmail&amp;ut=3n2mxSsf2VBSQ1">Addis Ababa, Ethiopia</a>, resulted in the Addis Ababa Call to Action on financing the health workforce, signed by the nine ministries of health that participated.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The call to action is a powerful tool that ministries of health, national health professional associations, and other health systems and health workforce champions can now use to advocate to their ministries of finance to invest more in health workers as the most direct way to meet their countries’ health goals.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Yet the fact that none of the ministries of finance that participated in the <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ffd3/">Addis health financing meetings</a> earlier in the week participated in the later health workforce meeting highlights the challenge we face in simply getting the attention of ministries of finance, much less persuading them to act.&nbsp;</div> <p></p><fieldset class="fieldgroup group-authoring-information"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Author&#039;s name:&nbsp;</div> Misrak Makonnen and Kate Tulenko </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-date field-field-publication-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Publication Date:&nbsp;</div> <span class="date-display-single">July 2015</span> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p><a href="https://www.capacityplus.org/six-reasons-ministries-finance-should-invest-health-workers" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.capacityplus.org/six-reasons-ministries-finance-should-invest-health-workers#comments Addis Ababa Call to Action Finance Health Workers Kate Tulenko Misrak Makonnen Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:12:22 +0000 Carol Bales 1510 at https://www.capacityplus.org