Tanzania

Building the “Educational Home”: Staying Connected to Alumni with MEPI Graduate Tracking in Tanzania

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:57:21 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Michael Drane, Rebecca Bailey, Zohray Talib, Rose Mwangi, Joslin Dogbe, and Moses Simuyemba

January 2015 (All day)

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. CapacityPlus is collaborating with the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center, MEPI Physician Tracking Technical Working Group, and MEPI-supported medical schools in 11 African countries to develop resources and good practices for graduate tracking and to foster exchange through a regional graduate tracking network. The MEPI Connect graduate tracking software is helping African medical schools to remain connected with their graduates. Tracking allows institutions to assess the effectiveness of strategies to retain graduates at posts in underserved areas.

The Tanzania Health Worker Engagement Study: Exploring the Relationship between Engagement and Performance

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:51:33 +0000

Author's name:

Joseph Kundy, Tana Wuliji, Anna Nswila, Paul Magesa, and Davis Rumisha

February 2014 (All day)

The Tanzania Health Worker Engagement Study

This presentation is related to an interactive roundtable discussion at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Situational Analysis of the Twinning Center Para-Social Worker Training Program in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:45:36 +0000

Author's name:

Laura Guyer, Dana Singleton, and Nathan Linsk

September 2012 (All day)

Situational Analysis of the Twinning Center Para-Social Worker Training Program

CapacityPlus conducted a situational analysis of a para-social worker training program in three country contexts. Para-social workers are volunteers who have received training in foundational skills in basic social service delivery to help address the human resources crisis in delivering social services to vulnerable populations, including children. This analysis validated that the twinning model is adaptable and should be employed to build a cadre of para-social workers at the local level. The analysis also provides the needed data for promoting and funding twinning practices and creating para-social worker cadres as an emergency human resources response to serving children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.

Creating an Enabling Environment for Human Resources for Health Program Implementation in Three African Countries

Carol Bales — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:09:52 +0000

Author's name:

Carie Muntifering Cox, Corinne Mahoney Farrell, Crystal Ng, Randi Burlew, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis

February 2013 (All day)

Creating an Enabling Environment for HRH Program Implementation

Over the past decade, global and national health leaders have increasingly recognized the importance of investing in human resources for health (HRH) in order to scale up service delivery and meet the Millennium Development Goals. This prioritization has resulted in increased attention to and funding for HRH. Despite these advances, insufficient progress has been made in implementing HRH interventions to improve access to qualified health workers. Therefore, this qualitative study was conducted to determine the factors that define the enabling environment for successful implementation of HRH interventions in three countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Successes and Challenges: Implementing Health Workforce Strengthening Interventions in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:47:07 +0000

Author's name:

Carie Muntifering Cox, Corinne Mahoney Farrell, Crystal Ng, Randi Burlew, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis

November 2012 (All day)

Successes and Challenges Poster

Human resources for health (HRH) is a relatively young field. As such, less is known about how to successfully implement health workforce interventions than is known about other types of health interventions (e.g., service delivery) with a longer history of implementation. Presented at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Beijing on November 2, 2012, this poster describes results from a qualitative study with staff from USAID-funded HRH projects in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania led by IntraHealth International, which was conducted in recognition of the need for a more systematic approach to understanding the challenges and success factors in implementing HRH interventions.

Strengthening the Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Human Resources for Health Initiatives

CapacityPlus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:09:34 +0000

Author's name:

Craig Hafner

September 2009 (All day)

Legacy Series 8

Describes the Capacity Project’s contributions to strengthening Christian Health Associations’ HR systems, and provides recommendations for working with the faith-based sector.

The Impact of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) Strengthening

CapacityPlus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:07:34 +0000

Author's name:

Daniel H. de Vries, Dykki Settle, and Pamela A. McQuide

September 2009 (All day)

Legacy Series 6

Provides an overview of results from a qualitative evaluation study of the Capacity Project’s HRIS strengthening in Swaziland, Uganda, and Rwanda, and draws on results from a regional workshop on data-driven decision-making in Tanzania.