HRH Action Framework: A Featured Resource

The HRH Action Framework (HAF), a key resource for the CapacityPlus global project, is designed to assist governments and health managers to develop and implement strategies to achieve an effective and sustainable health workforce. By using a comprehensive approach, the HAF helps to address staff shortages, uneven distribution of staff, gaps in skills and competencies, low retention, and poor motivation, among other challenges.

Components of the HAF
The HAF is available in English, French, and Spanish. This online interactive tool includes an overall framework and six Action Fields:

• Human Resources Management Systems
• Leadership
• Partnership
• Finance
• Education
• Policy.

There is also a four-step clickable Action Cycle:

• Situational Analysis
• Planning
• Implementation
• Monitoring & Evaluation.

Recent improvements
The HAF includes a new Country Examples page that highlights case studies containing practical examples describing how the HAF has been applied at the country and program level (e.g., Uganda, Kenya, Peru, and the National Tuberculosis Program).

Additionally, a review process is underway for the Tools and Guidelines and Resources sections, included on each Action Field page, to ensure that documents are relatively current, there are no obvious gaps, and human resources for health (HRH) gender issues are adequately represented.

Other additions include Google search bars on the Spanish and French language sites. The HAF website was developed as an initiative of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and represents a collaborative effort between GHWA, USAID, and the World Health Organization. As a GHWA partner, the Capacity Project and now CapacityPlus contributed to the development of the HAF. The WHO, GHWA, CapacityPlus, and a range of other global, regional, and country-level partners continue to work together to broaden the array of HAF users and increase country-level application.

Photo: Trevor Snapp