Human Resources for Health

Human Resources for Health (HRH) Effort Index

david — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:19:22 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

The Human Resources for Health (HRH) Effort Index is designed to improve the measurement of inputs to and outcomes of national HRH programs. The Effort Index also monitors country progress and changes over time. The focus of the Index is on collective, national-level HRH efforts, as opposed to efforts made by individual projects, nongovernmental organizations, or other stakeholders. This survey is designed to collect information leading to the construction of such index.

Guide for Conducting Peer Reviews of Community-Based Health Sciences Education Programs

david — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:26 +0000

Author's name:

Desireé Michaels and Ian Couper

September 2015 (All day)

Guide for Conducting Peer Reviews of Community-Based Health Sciences Education Programs

During 2014-2015, CapacityPlus and the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) conducted a peer review of the community-based education component of the medical education program at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences. One purpose of the activity was to expose colleagues in the MEPI community to the process and tools of conducting a peer review. This step-by-step guide to the peer review process is targeted at educators and leaders in health sciences faculties and medical schools. While primarily focused on MEPI-supported schools, it is expected to be of assistance to health professions schools internationally that are interested in such an evaluation and improvement approach.

Assessment of Preservice Education eLearning Courses Using the QStream Platform

david — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:18:00 +0000

Author's name:

Heather Ross and Kate Gilroy

September 2015 (All day)

Assessment of Preservice Education eLearning Courses Using the QStream Platform

This report assesses two eLearning courses developed by CapacityPlus that are offered through QStream, a learning platform that uses a spaced, repeated question-and-answer format that has been shown to improve the retention of knowledge over time. The Private Sector Participation in Preservice Health Education course provides an overview of factors bearing on the success of private sector involvement in educating health workers. It explores the similarities between public and private institutions; challenges for private schools; and business models in use by private preservice education institutions. It was developed for learners who are engaged in leading private preservice education institutions in low- and middle-income countries.

The People That Deliver Initiative: Namibia’s Integrated Actions to Improve the Health Supply Chain Management Workforce

david — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:37:57 +0000

Author's name:

Rebecca Bailey, Erin Hasselberg, Rachel Deussom, Maritza Titus, Benjamin Ongeri, Abre Van Buren, and Richard Seifman

September 2015 (All day)

The People That Deliver Initiative: Namibia’s Integrated Actions to Improve the Health Supply Chain Management Workforce

In November 2013, Namibia's Minister of Health presented a formal request to the People that Deliver (PtD) Board and member institutions for technical support to develop a sustainable strategy to improve access to health commodities. Led by the government of Namibia and supported by expertise from the People that Deliver Initiative and its members, notably the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded Supply Chain Management System project and CapacityPlus, the PtD-Namibia collaboration sought to understand and improve Namibia’s public sector health supply chain management workforce, focusing on the Ministry of Health and Social Services' immediate priority: staff at the central medical store and regional medical depots. This synthesis report documents the PtD-Namibia collaboration’s findings and outcomes in five priority activity areas as well as its collective results, all of which have great potential to have a positive impact on the country’s supply chain management workforce development and planning.

Guidelines for Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Plans for Human Resources for Health

david — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:03:41 +0000

Author's name:

Alfredo Fort, Crystal Ng, and Emily Nicholson

August 2015 (All day)

Guidelines for Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Plans for Human Resources for Health

These guidelines are intended to give stakeholders an overview of the process for developing M&E plans that are an integral component of HRH plans. This document complements existing M&E resources, such as national and regional M&E plans for malaria and HIV/AIDS, in that it provides the general steps required to develop an M&E plan while also paying particular attention to HRH-specific considerations, challenges, and indicators. The guidelines focus on national-level M&E plans for HRH, but they can also be applied at regional, district, and subdistrict levels.

CapacityPlus End-of-Project Event Agenda

david — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:35:34 +0000

CapacityPlus End-of-Project Event Agenda

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus End-of-Project Event Agenda

Agenda for the CapacityPlus end-of-project event on September 17, 2015, in Arlington, Virginia.

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

david — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:31:54 +0000

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

Author's name:

Kate Tulenko

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

An overview presentation on the project's results and lessons learned delivered at the CapacityPlus end-of-project event in Arlington, Virginia, on September 17, 2015.

Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services: Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

david — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:38:18 +0000

Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services: Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Final Report

The CapacityPlus final report details the project’s achievements in supporting country-led progress in health professional education, human resources management and leadership, use of health workforce data for decision-making, health workforce retention and productivity, professionalizing under-recognized cadres of health workers, monitoring and evaluation, and addressing gender equality in health systems.

Overcoming Human Resources for Health Constraints for the Delivery of Quality HIV Services

david — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:49:44 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #17 (PDF)

Over the past six years, the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded global CapacityPlus project has assisted PEPFAR countries to identify and address human resources for health (HRH) challenges to accelerate progress toward national HIV goals and the vision of an AIDS-free generation.There are many approaches, achievements, and lessons learned from CapacityPlus’s work that can be leveraged to advance implementation of the PEPFAR 3.0 agenda and the new PEPFAR HRH strategy. This technical brief presents these for each objective of the PEPFAR HRH strategy.

Strengthening Human Resources Management and Leadership

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:41:01 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz, Jim McCaffery, Paul Marsden and Margaret Caffrey

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #2

CapacityPlus expanded the evidence base for the importance of human resources management (HRM) and leadership; a compelling case study is the Dominican Republic, which implemented a comprehensive program of HRM strengthening that demonstrates how such an effort can contribute to long-term policy improvements, cost savings, and increased accessibility and use of HIV/AIDS, family planning, and other key services.

Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Productivity

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:30:54 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz and Rachel Deussom

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #4

CapacityPlus built the capacity of national human resources for health (HRH) leaders and managers in Uganda, Laos, and Malawi to use the project’s retention and productivity tools to generate evidence and inform decisions to influence policy-making and improve the availability of services through increased staffing and distribution.

Professionalizing Under-Recognized Cadres to Strengthen Health Systems

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:26:22 +0000

Author's name:

Rebecca Bailey, Amy Bess, Kate Gilroy, Lisa Howard-Grabman, Leah McManus, Deborah Murray, Richard Seifman, Dana Singleton, Maritza Titus, and Daren Trudeau

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #5

CapacityPlus raised awareness of the need to professionalize under-recognized cadres of health workers that play essential roles in well-functioning health systems, including contributing to the launch of global coalitions and tools to strengthen and support the supply chain and social service workforces.

Building the Knowledge Base: Monitoring and Evaluation and the HRH Effort Index

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:20:11 +0000

Author's name:

Alfredo Fort and Kate Gilroy

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #6

CapacityPlus improved human resources for health (HRH) measurement and monitoring and evaluation capacity at the country level and developed an HRH Effort Index for national and subnational application to spur policy changes and enable cross-country comparisons.

Estimating the Institutional Costs of Educating and Training Health Workers: Preservice Education Costing Methodology and Instruments

david — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 17:51:29 +0000

Author's name:

Sophie Faye, Rebecca Bailey, and Stephen Musau

June 2015 (All day)

Preservice Education Costing Study Methodology

Costing Instruments

CapacityPlus designed a costing study approach to: 1) estimate the financial costs to an educational institution and its associated clinical practice facilities of producing a graduate of a specific academic program; 2) identify the resource constraints to producing sufficient numbers of quality graduates; and 3) simulate the potential new unit cost to the educational institution and its associated clinical practice facilities if a scenario of interventions were introduced to increase the quantity and/or quality of graduates. The approach applies an Excel-based costing model and data collection instruments to analyze preservice education costing data derived from information about enrollment levels, curriculum data, school expenditures, payroll, available infrastructure and equipment, and others.

The HRH Effort Index: New Indicators to Help Systems Strengthening

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 19 May 2015 15:40:41 +0000

Author's name:

Alfredo Fort, Rachel Deussom, Randi Burlew, and Kate Gilroy

March 2015 (All day)

The HRH Effort Index: New Indicators to Help Systems Strengthening

CapacityPlus’s Human Resources for Health (HRH) Effort Index is a tool to obtain HRH indicators contributing to health systems strengthening. Shared at the Global Health Mini-University in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2015, this presentation gives an overview of the tool and findings from pilot testing in Kenya and Nigeria.