The Knowledge library

Legacy Series

Strengthening Human Resources Management and Leadership

September 2015 by Wanda Jaskiewicz, Jim McCaffery, Paul Marsden and Margaret Caffrey
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus 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.

TAGS: HR Management, Human Resources for Health, Leadership

Professionalizing Under-Recognized Cadres to Strengthen Health Systems

September 2015 by Rebecca Bailey, Amy Bess, Kate Gilroy, Lisa Howard-Grabman, Leah McManus, Deborah Murray, Richard Seifman, Dana Singleton, Maritza Titus, and Daren Trudeau
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus 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.

TAGS: Human Resources for Health, Social Service, Supply Chain

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

September 2015 by CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus 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.

TAGS: Education and Training, Gender Equality, HR Information Systems, HR Leadership, Human Resources for Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Productivity, Retention

Using Health Workforce Data to Improve Access to Services

September 2015 by Carl Leitner, Dykki Settle, Kate Tulenko, David Potenziani, Michael Drane, Luke Duncan, Amanda Puckett, and Alfredo Fort
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Legacy Series #3

CapacityPlus expanded use of the open source human resources information systems platform, iHRIS, to enable countries to use data to make decisions to more effectively recruit and deploy health workers for increased access to services and to track health worker qualifications and education pipelines; the iHRIS software is now used in 20 countries to manage almost a million health worker records at a potential cost savings of over $275 million when compared to commercial software.

TAGS: Health Workforce Data, HR Information Systems, Open Source

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

September 2015 by Wanda Jaskiewicz and Rachel Deussom
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus 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.

TAGS: Human Resources for Health, Productivity, Retention

Transforming Health Professional Preservice Education to Meet National Needs

September 2015 by Rebecca Bailey, Kate Tulenko, Heather Ross, Rachel Deussom, and Kate Gilroy
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Legacy Series #1

CapacityPlus supported more than 50 health professional schools in 12 African countries to strengthen health workforce education and school management, contributing to over 9,000 new health workers and building the capacity of these schools to continue scaling up production of graduates and improving the efficiency and quality of their programs.

TAGS: Health Workforce Education, Preservice, School Management

Advancing Gender Equality in Health Systems

September 2015 by Rachel Deussom, Constance Newman, Alfredo Fort, Laura Hurley, and Alex Collins
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Legacy Series #7

CapacityPlus developed learning tools to address the challenges of gender inequalities and discrimination in the health workforce and health professional education systems and promote gender-transformative principles in advocacy, policy-making, and program
implementation.

TAGS: Advocacy, Gender, Health Professional Education, Health Workforce, Policy

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

September 2015 by Alfredo Fort and Kate Gilroy
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus 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.
 

TAGS: Human Resources for Health, Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation