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Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining Human Resources for Health Stakeholder Leadership Groups
Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining HRH Stakeholder Leadership Groups
These guidelines provide a practical, clear, and user-friendly set of actions that human resources for health (HRH) leaders at the country level can take to successfully launch and sustain stakeholder leadership groups (SLGs). An HRH SLG consists of representatives from all of the key entities involved in planning, producing, managing, and supporting a country’s health workforce. The recommended actions described in this resource are intended to raise the likelihood of forming an SLG that functions well, has a positive impact, and avoids or addresses typical difficulties. Read related news and blog posts. Also available in French and Spanish.
Human Resources Management Assessment Approach
Human Resources Management Assessment Approach
Strengthening the human resources management (HRM) of the health workforce is essential to improve the quality of family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and other key services, and to ensure that global investments to increase the number of trained health workers are supported and sustained. The Human Resources Management Assessment Approach is designed to guide policy-makers, managers, and human resources practitioners toward better understanding and responding to the HRM challenges facing their health systems. The approach promotes the collection and analysis of information on defined HRM challenges and informs the development of policy, strategy, systems, and process interventions to respond to challenges in four key areas of HRM: health workforce planning and implementation, work environment and conditions, human resources information systems, and performance management.
Strengthening Human Resources Management and Leadership
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.
For additional resources and publications see the HR Management and Leadership and Management sections of the CapacityPlus Knowledge Library.